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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's so funny to me how the zeitgeist of DCUM seems to be:

JLKM/mostly white charter school scores go down/have big achievement gap: test scores don't matter as much as experiential/bilingual education does

KIPP and other schools have high test scores with mostly black/economically disadvantaged student bodies: they teach too much to the test, it's "not a good fit" for my kid.

school like Cap City has middling test scores and a curriculum similar to that of a HRCS (see also, IB at Banneker and Eastern): I can't send my kid there because the test scores show there's not a cohort of high performers.
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Sort of.

IMO, what most DCUM families want in a preschool and elementary school is quite different than what they want as high school and college approach.

They're all for play-based preschool, lots of recess minimal assessments, specials and enrichment opportunities. Immersion is a big plus. And they want a school full of students who start scoring well on PARCC by 3rd without any explicit test prep.

Basically they want a progressive private school through 3rd or 4th, and a high achieving suburban or wealthier urban middle and high school environment with advanced classes, IB or AP, and classmates who are scoring in the 1400-1500s on the SAT.
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uh huh. keep telling yourself that... but nobody else believes it (and you probably don't either).[/quote]

Add in dual language and that sounds pretty accurate to me. What's the lie?

It seems like Cap City tries to foster critical thinking. Whether the kids can all write an effective and gramatically correct three paragraph argument upon graduation, I don't know. [/quote]

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