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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCUM won’t like my post, but I am a teacher who does the interviews. I’m not defending two questions or three minutes or whatever, but I can tell you that after 10 years of being at the school, it is possible to see within ten minutes who is a good fit. Parent interview portion does not factor into the score except to help students who appear to have strong family support. However, with gpa inflation the past two years due to WS plus the ban on getting parcc scores plus random charter schools who have weird report cards, it is very difficult to assess candidates, honestly.

I would support an application ranking system with no interview, just lottery of qualified students. I hate interview days and would rather be teaching.[/quote]

Thanks.  What written records are available?  What kind of information could we get with a FOIA request?[/quote]

This was posted earlier.  Basically:

Keep your request simple. Ask for all "records" that contain:
- the formal process by which Walls candidates were ranked
- all guidance for interviewers on how questions they were to ask and how they were to rate candidates
- all records that provides training for interviewers 
- all records that provides the weighting for interviews vs GPA and how candidates are ranked in the event of a tie.
 Also ask for an example of the interview matrix or rubric that is used for each interview.

There are some exceptions for what has to be disclosed but this is the type of information that has to be released because it's of public interest. If it exists, they will have to provide it. It is likely it doesn't exist and it will show it was capricious.[/quote]

Thanks, but I asking the SWW teacher who is part of the process, not you.[/quote]

That's not how publicly disclosable information works.  This is why FOIA exists :roll: [/quote]

Huh?  You must be new to DCUM.  This is an anonymous blog where people disclose information all the time.

Feel free to file your FOIA request and pay applicable fees to DC for searching, reviewing, and reproducing records.

:roll: [/quote]

My favorite thing is posters snarkily declaring that other people don’t understand DCUM and then calling it a “blog” like they’re 150 years old. LOL[/quote]

My favorite thing is people criticizing other people's words when they themselves are ignorant and uninformed.

Here is the definition of blog:

"A blog ... is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts)."

And that exactly what DCUM (founded in 2007) describes itself as and is.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/about[/quote]

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