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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who don’t think peer group is important are deluding themselves.  This starts in elementary and becomes even more important as you advance up to middle and high school.

I am from a poor minority family (had free lunches) but was placed in G & T in elementary, tracked in the highest level courses in middle and high school, to AP courses/AP test and college credit.  I got a full 4 year academic scholarship in college.  Now I have an advance degree and a successful career.  If I wasn’t in G & T with similar academic peers, I might not be where I am today.  If the people around you are motivated to do well, you also become motivated to do well and are challenged to your fullest potential.  If I was in the general class, bored, and did not have to work hard to do well, I likely would not have reached the potential that I did.

DCPS is terrible because there is no G & T in elementary and hardly any tracking in middle or high school with the exception of a few schools and the test in high schools.  So you bet to compensate for this deficiency, I’m going to be looking at PARCC scores in elementary school for my child.  If there is a sizable cohort of kids doing well, great.  The teacher will likely teach and challenge these kids.  If there is only 2 or 3 kids doing well, forget about it.  I don’t care if the teacher is giving them harder assignments.  They will likely be on chrome books most of the day while the teacher is actively trying to bring the rest of the class up to grade level.  That’s not my definition of active learning.  I can put my child on a chrome book at home.

I agree that PARCC scores are not the be all and end all as someone mentioned, but it’s pretty important in giving you an idea about peer groups.[/quote]

Sure. The point is MV only has 6% of its kids that would even be eligible for G&T. PP started it by assuming MV has a crazy amount of kids that are above grade level. That’s just not true. There are 12 students out of 200 in testing grades (3rd-5th) so about 1 kid per classroom that are testing advanced.[/quote]

No PP’s definition was PARCC 4 for above grade level, not PARCC 5.  PARCC 4 is ready for the next grade.  Common core might not agree that it’s above grade level, but I am not going to argue details.

You are missing the whole point.  It’s not about G & T.  The point is the charters EOTP all have much better performing peer groups than DCPS schools EOTP unless you live in Capital Hill.  That’s the environment I want my child in, not an environment where the majority of kids are at below grade level.

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