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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like the things that matter to OP are:  test scores, screen time, and outdoor time.

The only item that you are going to be able to find hard data on is test scores.  The OSSE page is very helpful and breaks scores down by demographics, so you can see not just how students overall are doing, but also how students in your demographic group are doing, which might give you a better sense of how your child would do at the school.  I know you didn't ask this, but I will throw this out there-- we moved from a school with overall ok test scores but scores that were poor relative to demographics, to a school with great overall test scores that were also great relative to demographics.  Everyone at our first school told us that test scores don't mean anything.  The education at my kids' new school is about twice as rigorous (in a good way), which I believe accounts for the test scores.

Screen time-- if you are at a school where all kids are assigned their own tablets, then expect more screen time than you are probably comfortable with.  It will vary teacher-by-teacher but there will probably not be a policy imposing limits.  If your school has the kids share computers, it will be harder to default to screens (but those schools might come with other issues).

Outdoor time-- There will be a general school policy, that probably won't vary too much by school, but again it will be very teacher-specific.

Good luck!  I think these are all valid questions.  [/quote]

Thank you for that comment on test scores. We had a similar experience. I don’t find it worth my time to argue with the “test scores don’t matter” people in here, but there are definitely mistaken and full of cope. [/quote]

It's amazing that there are so many intelligent people who think test scores are an indicator of school excellence vs a basic demographic correlation. [/quote]

I can both believe that my kids' school is doing the best they can with a high-needs population and observe that if I want my kids to learn material that's appropriate to them, I'm going to have to teach them myself. (At which point their test scores will apparently be used as proof either that the school is doing a good job with kids like mine, or that test scores are just a 'basic demographic correlation'.)[/quote]

So, you're just unwilling to have your child near students that have high needs?[/quote]

Most ppl on DCUM are. It used to be that you could choose your school by avoiding high needs kids, but post-pandemic, every school is full of high needs kids.[/quote]

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