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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.
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basically you were trying to publicly make him admit his school was bad?[/quote]

Sounds like PP was politely asking for basic information about Eastern's IB Diploma program. She couldn't get it from the school's semi competent senior admin.

I'm not optimistic about Brown either.[/quote]

This. As a parent with a child who will likely attend JR next year, I would have liked to see a Principal with success leading a higher performing school. There is a vast difference between the performance and expectations for a high performing school with a good chunk of MC and UMC families vs. a low performing school with primarily LC and LMC families who aren't as informed and view teachers and administrators as authority figures.

Making false allegations of racism because a parent didn't want to send her UMC child to Eastern doesn't help anyone and only polarizes people. You're not going to shame UMC families into expecting less for our children and it doesn't help any child to set the bar so low at any school.[/quote]

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