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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a very robust DCIA sports program for elementary schools who choose to participate.  Spirts are a really big deal among the ward 3 schools.  The tryouts for teams tend to be pretty competitive and sports are a big part of school pride.  I know most sws parents have been conditioned not to understand this.  These are the same parents who have been conditioned to fear standardized testing.   You do you, sws!!  Equity and art and California math all the way!!!  Signed, a parent who got out early after a couple years before her kids were too harmed by the culture of low expectations at sws. [/quote]

I agree sports are important.

However, enough with continued comments about SWS parents being conditioned to fear standardized testing. I see similar posts about SWS and homework. Maybe that was true in the past, but it is not currently. I have an upper elementary school kid who has been subjected to a variety of tests. Iready diagnostic, reading inventory, PARCC (which DC needs fo drop - a multi day assessment is a waste of teaching time when there are other, better, faster ones). Kid gets monthly quizzes on topics.

Kid also gets homework every night including math problems, other types of practice problems, had a research project, writing responses etc. I also know of kids who were under performing on math testing and got interventions to catch them up.

Complain about affinity groups, but stop with the misinformation or outdated information.[/quote]

True about standardized tests. The kids do take standardized tests. But I disagree about homework. We have a kid in an upper grade who hasn't had homework since PARCC. Before that it was only one sheet per week. [/quote]

I will add, all of the kids I know who go on to middle school from SWS do fine, great even. There is some catching up the first year (esp in math), but they do know how to think, which goes far in this world.[/quote]

I don't say this to start a fight, merely as an observation of fact. SWS kids are predominantly UMC kids with educated parents. They could attend Lord of the Flies Elementary School and still be ok in MS. Their ability to succeed in MS is not a function of SWS. [/quote]

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