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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Lee parent. I wish the test scores weren't terrible, even though I think PARCC sucks and that there are reasons it will be hard for students at a strict Montessori school to do well on them. My 4th grader is doing fine academically but totally bombed the tests. It's hard to tell yourself to look at reality and ignore the tests, but mostly I wish the scores were better because it reflects badly on the school and could cause trouble down the road if they don't improve.

As for the achievement gap, the test itself has been shown to have biases, but I can certainly believe that black kids are having more trouble with academics than white kids, for all the reasons that's true at most schools. Maybe there's something about the education at Lee that makes it worse. However, I've know most of the kids in Upper Elementary (4th/5th/6th) for a bunch of years now, and a lot of the real classroom leaders - both socially and academically - are African-American. "Academically" in the sense that they are doing really impressive projects and are leading work groups, not in the PARCC sense.

At the same time, I've had a number of friends leave the school because they didn't find it a fair or welcoming place for African-Americans, so I'm not saying everything is awesome there.
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I’m more concerned about your last statement than test scores. [/quote]

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