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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem OP is this board skews wealthy and white so they only talk about Ward 3 or Capitol Hill area, which is not zoned for the Ward 3 high school. They have a deep fear of minorities and judge everything solely on test scores. You don’t get a very good picture of DC schools here. [/quote]

Not even worth discussing other schools bc they’ll just get shouted down. This is the last place I’d go for advice[/quote]

Are there non-application DCPS high schools other than JR that have more than 20% of kids on grade level (based on test scores)?   Honest question. [/quote]

I don't know. But test scores don't equal good schools.

And the circle of nonsense begins anew[/quote]

What exactly does this mean?   Test scores reflect how academically prepared students are, and most parents with options don’t want their kids to be or to go to school with mostly kids who are multiple grade levels behind.

Please explain your thinking here. [/quote]

Not my post, but I'll explain as I feel similarly. Likely in the minority here as I am a Black mom to a Black boy, middle class. My son started out a diverse charter school. Pretty good scores, highly rated on charter rating scales at the time. Pulled him from this school because class sizes got larger and he wasn't getting the support/instruction he needed. (Very kind, respectful kid at school though). Used to lottery to get him into an elementary school on CH. This school was not diverse, but students and teachers were welcoming. However, teachers pushed and pushed for him to be tested for SPED. Which he ended up not qualifying for in spite of their insistence. This school had AMAZING test scores though. Guess my kid messed this up.  :roll:

Now, my son is an 8th grader at a school that is not highly sought after here. Overall school scores were not amazing last year, but his were good and the highest he's ever had. He's in the accelerated math cohort and thriving and now headed to high school. What I believe what he truly needed was teachers who are ACTUALLY TEACHING. He had some of those at the second ES, but in general most kids there were already above grade level I guess. He still has work to do, I still support him at home. However, if I picked school based on test scores alone, he might still not be getting the support he needs when he is at school every day. [/quote]

Sounds like your son struggled when you moved him to a school with much higher test schools which likely had much higher achieving kids. The playing field was much higher.  They worked at a higher level which your son was not successful in doing.  It sounds like he was very behind and it caused concern that maybe he had a learning disability and why they suggested he get tested.  He did not have a LD.  But the much lower test scores he had compared to other kids prove that he had a big knowledge gap and why he struggled at the school on CH.

The class teaching at a higher level is not going to slow down for him.  The school is not going to get you 1:1 tutoring to support him to catch up.  You have to get intense tutoring after school to catch him up.  This is what families do everywhere and the norm when kids are way behind.

Then you moved him to school with lower test scores and he did better with lower performing kids
and likely lower expectations and level with performance.

BTW, I bet your sons scores now which you say is good if compared to a school like Deal with higher performing kids is likely in bottom 4th.

It’s all relative and what level do you expect your kid to perform.  Advance course in one school may actually not be advance at all but grade level. Standardized tests doesn’t care about that and is not subjective. It just tests what your kid are expected to know.  It has nothing to do with race.  It is race blind.

Signed minority parent who grew up  poor in FARMS 
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