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[quote=Anonymous]PP, thanks for answering and acknowledging the concern rather than ridiculing Hardy
I think the PARCC may actually measure critical thinking better than the DC CAS, 
I really appreciate parents like you who realize how lucky they are to get their kids into Latin and are nice about it

I would consider raising the issue with the administration and seeing what they say - just because your scores have gone down at the same time that the number of high SES (white) kids in your MS population has gone up dramatically and your FARMS population has gone down - and these are supposed to be the magic bullets that created high test scores on the DC CAS automatically - and that is what would concern me as a parent with a kid in the MS at Latin

because on paper if you go by the DCUM mantras - increasing number of white kids and decreasing number of farms kids = high DC CAS scores (which you got),
I don't understand why that would not also translate into the ability to teach those kids well enough to improve their scores on the DC CAS scores as well year over year, and it looks like that is what really cost Latin its Tier I ranking...

do they do any tracking at Latin?  Do they have Honors classes like at Deal and Hardy?  Do they do "differentiated instruction?"

Sorry don't know all that much about how they go about teaching at Latin MS
and is it really true that all kids have to take Algebra I for 7th and 8th grade?[/quote]

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