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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The frustrating thing about SH is that it really is as simple as DCPS offering tracked classes in science and social studies too and they’d triple their IB buy-in. I am at a feeder where most parents want to send their kids to SH, which is mere blocks from where most of us live. Increasingly, people are sending their kids, so I’m hopeful the numbers game will be self-fulfilling eventually (as it has been at our feeder and many other ESes in the area).[/quote]

I don’t think any DCPS MS has tracked science and social studies. [/quote]

Or very good appealing tracked English.  Honors English at SH looks like minimally acceptable grade level English. The only real challenge in DCPS middle schools is for math.  We just don't have very good public middle schools here as compared to the burbs, with or without charter lottery luck.

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“Honors” math at SH is grade level math. It’s not advanced. [/quote]

This.  Compare that to Basis or DCI where kids can be in classes 2 grade levels higher in math.[/quote]

In some cases 3 levels higher at Basis but the normal progression is already advanced.

Basis has the highest math scores in DC but DCI is really low—most students at DCI are below grade level in math.

CAPE Math 4 or 5

Basis 68.4%
DCI 26.5%[/quote]

The Basis is tiring.  The school self selects.  If DCI self selects then sure their scores would be higher.  Also the kids at Basis takes PARCC levels behind the math they are taking.  No other schools manipulated the testing like this.

Lastly, that is the whole point of tracking is that the more advance kids would be in separate, more challenging classes.[/quote]

Here are the things I wish SH and EH and John Francis had:

A real science curriculum (all schools currently testing below 10 percent proficiency on science, and the teacher who chimed in said the DCPS curriculum is off)

The requirement to read full length novels

More handwritten note taking and assignments

Math is fine. John Francis needs to start offering geometry by 8th.

BASIS is a deeply imperfect and weird school, but it does all of the above things well. If DCPS schools in this middle part of the city did too, you would see a hugely increased interest in those middle schools. [/quote]

Yes!  Far more robust foreign language options would also be very good. [/quote]

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