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[quote=Anonymous]School quality and student quality go hand in hand of course. If our best public high schools were half as good as DCPS, DCPCS and parent boosters claim, they'd be producing more than a handful of NMSFs annually. Right now, only around .05% of DC public's high school juniors are clearing this bar, when the state average is .5-1%. I don't see what the big deal is in scoring high on the (rather easy) PSAT. My siblings and I were semifinalists, as was my spouse and SIL. We attended ordinary public schools in heavily working class communities and then elite colleges, on Pell Grants. Our families were lower middle class. We had many terrific high school teachers, loved to read and worked our tails off at school. I've lived in DC for 15 years and am tired of the endless excuses for mediocre school/student performance. All that the NAEP results show are that things aren't as bad as they were in the 90s for both for low and high-performing students.[/quote]
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