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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's my perspective:

My kid scored very well in 3rd grade, at 4 in English and 5 in math.  Overall, he was in 97% percentile for the city and 99th percentile for his school.  His school fared badly, with low 20s scores for math and English.  However, my kid's own test scores showed me that despite the small numbers of high performing kids at his Title 1 schools, he is still learning and is comparable with his peers WOTP.  So, I'm giving kudos to his teachers who have clearly succeeding in differentiated learning and engaging my child while also teaching a classroom with kids in poverty who do not have the advantage my kid has.[/quote]

This is awesome.  Not trying to be snarky-- asking sincerely-- do you supplement at home (workbooks, Kumon, etc), or is this primarily from what he was taught at school?  I am asking because we are at a school full of affluent white kids and they seem to be achieving only around 50-60% proficiency, which just seems odd, and I'm wondering how schools achieve these results for some kids, in environments that are probably more challenging for teachers to manage.  [/quote]

PP here.  You may be mixing apples and oranges.  Only about 20% of the kids in my kid's school tested at 4 or 5.  One of those 20% was my kid, who scored in the 97th percentile for the city (99th percentile for his school).  So, I'm blessed with a kid who is scoring well at tests, and seems to be at a school that is differentiating well and keeping him engaged, despite the fact that 80% of the kids in his grade are scoring below proficient.

Given the poor test scores of DC as a whole, if 60% of your child's class is scoring at 4 or 5, that actually may be pretty good, and that probably means that those kids are in the 90th percentile for the city.  I honestly believe that it's going to be hard to get ANY school up to 100% of the kids at proficient. ...Kids learn at different rates, and even WOTP schools have a range of abilities.  The city I grew up before I moved to DC in was largely white and affluent, and still there was a range of abilities in the classroom.  My friend's child's school is nearly all white, and she struggles with reading.  So, education is always going to be kid-dependent.

Do I supplement at home?  I don't know how to answer that.  Does reading to him and his siblings every night, limiting screen time, and playing lots of family games count as supplementing?  
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