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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a Latin parent, and while I find the drop concerning---I am not panicking.  Charters are mandated to take all comers through the lottery.  Some years that may mean a lot of very prepared kids from well-performing elementary schools (those in the Hardy catchment area as well as Capitol Hill) and some years it may mean kids coming from elementary schools that are not as strong.  So the "median" level of a class may vary from year to year.  Basis is still very new---I could see them having the same level of variation after a few more years of incoming 5th graders of different levels of ability.

Latin also doesn't "drill and kill" for DCCAS the same way DCPS does.  Without having children at Deal or Hardy, I do not know whether the MS DCPS has the same DCCAS focus that our DCPS elementary did.

I'm not wed to DCCAS (or PARCC) being the end all /be all.  I want critical thinkers---not standardized test-taking automatons.   Latin's teachers have done an outstanding job with our kids on the critical thinking front.[/quote]

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