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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One point to bear in mind (and I sort of hate to bring it up) is that 10% at risk students will dilute/degrade Janney's consistently high test scores, and it will appear that the school is sliding back.[/quote]

Does anyone who is in a clearly affluent / UMC school like this care about test scores?? Do you actually need those scores to tell you how your child is doing??

Read the account of Atlanta teachers in this month's New Yorker about how NCLB and the obsession with testing created a toxic culture of cheating. [/quote]

You may not like it but it's true:  test scores drive perceptions of school success and quality.  Why does this matter?  For one thing, if your child applies to private schools at some point, the quality of his/her elementary school education matters.  Second, whether your child goes private or stays in public, perceptions of the "best" public schools have a major impact on real estate prices.  Janney's perceived quality is baked into property values in its boundary area, and parents have paid a lot (some would say overpaid) to live here.  It would be unfortunate if this changed.[/quote]

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