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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're not going to shut down Lee.  They are really reluctant to shut down a school that's popular and has some good metrics.  More likely they'd give a conditional continuance with a plan of improvement.

Cynically, school shutdowns are something we're only willing to do to low-income kids.  High-income parents won't tolerate it, and they feel entitled to have the taxpayer give them a school with cr*p test scores if that's what they want.[/quote]

How is it that no one considering the sample size of the students who were being tested and when the tests were administered, when using this metric for how *well* a school is meeting the needs of all populations? It is my understanding that the students who participated in PARCC were fewer than 50. In 2019.

What I want to see is every DCUM poster submit their ACT/SAT scores and how they did in college. What did your standardized tests predict about your future success?

Do not let the scores speak for themselves. Let the families and their children do that. And let the families of color speak loudest.

FWIW, I am a POC and unwilling to identify how I interact with the school.[/quote]

I for one am not focused on whether an individual child's PARCC score says about that child. I agree with you that this is a terrible predictor for future success and I have zero interest in telling any child what they are or are not capable of based on PARCC. That's ridiculous.

But even with a small sample size, the scores indicate that Lee is not doing well in terms of preparing its students for MS. Is this the only, or best, metric for evaluating an elementary school? No, but it is an important one if your child will attend MS. [/quote]

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