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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]is it worth changing from a jefferson feeder to a hobson feeder?  distance is about the same.[/quote]

I'm sure you will hear from Jefferson boosters on here... but if you care about the size of the cohort of high performing kids & the size of the cohort of truly low performing kids, SH is a no brainer. ELA is where the huge difference is and that's the skill that's more transferable to the non-tracked classes like science & social studies. [b]SH has 6% of kids getting 1s on PARCC... Jefferson has 26%[/b]. So, in one setting, your kid's class might have 1 or 2 kids *way* below grade level (illiterate or close to it, if we're being honest); in the other, it's fully 1/4th of the class. On the flip side, SH has over 50% of kids at grade level for ELA, so even the non-tracked classes are majority kids who have the tools to do the work; at Jefferson, it's just over 1/3.[/quote]

I didn't know this. I just looked at the data myself and you are correct. Wow. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Amazing what we are willing to settle for. I couldn't send my high-performing/-SES black child to either middle school. They would be ridiculed by (many of) their black peers, seen as unworthy by their white ones, held to low expectations by their teachers, and generally despised/feared by folks in the neighborhood. [/quote]

While I don't disagree that you would face those challenges at SH and Jefferson, I feel like someone should have told you that what you have described is the reality of having black UMC high performing students in public education in America. Are you new here?[/quote]

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