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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And test scores do not tell the whole story about schools. I wish people would stop pretending they do. It's so annoying to pick up one of those magazines named after a city, look at the article that says something like, "We rank all the high schools! Is yours in the top five?" And then look at the methodology they used only to find that it's just a ranking of test scores. Nothing more. [/quote]
I am all ears to learn about a better metric than test scores.[/quote]

The point is that a list of schools ranked by test scores is not the same as a list of schools from best to worst. There are many factors which don't lend themselves well to being measured. Not to mention that not all students will score high on a test. That could be as much due to the student's socioeconomic background as anything to do with the school. And that doesn't mean his schoolmate is going to do worse in school because of this.

So yes, there are happy, healthy, thriving students in DCC whose parents do not wish they were in Potomac. Hard to believe, but true. [/quote]

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