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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eastern could fill some of those 9th-grade lottery seats that are open this summer and raise their test scores in the process if they just said the words "any kid with at grade level PARCC scores can get into our IB program, and you will only be in classes with other kids at or above grade level." It's not complicated at all. [/quote]

If pretty much every kid is below grade level and you let anyone into IB, you pretty much either have a class of 2 kids or the IB classes are remedial at best. Like “honors for all” at Jackson reed.[/quote]

Alright - you have made your point - other people replying on here seem interested in learning about the actual programs. The data points from the once/year standardized test have been clearly stated multiple times in this thread. What a few other posters are trying to add into the conversation is that there are families in the EPIC, IB, Medical or IT (or some combination of the above) who have been happy with the courses offered. The EPIC (9th/10th grade, pre-IB) program does require an application, teacher recs, GPA, etc. As was said above, the numbers in the EPIC and IB program have been increasing, we will see if it continues under the new leadership. I realize I am in the minority here and it is easy to fixate on one data point when that is all that is readily available, but judging a school based on the scores from a test taken once/year may not be the best way to understand a school. [/quote]

Nobody is saying CAPE scores are all that matters. But Eastern's match CAPE scores are rock bottom. They are terrible. Nobody is going to believe it's an actual honors, pre-IB, or IB program when 1% of the kids are passing the math CAPE. You can make that kind of "other data and information" argument when the CAPE scores are kinda bad. But you can't make it with scores *this* bad. You're just making yourself look delusional.[/quote]

DP - we ALL know what the CAPE scores are. what is delusion (or worse) is repeatedly jumping out to bash Eastern (or any similar school) when there are in fact educated parents sending their kids there. That is the reality and it somehow threatens you, probably because you feel insecure about the fact that your child’s environment needs to be so intensively curated in order for your child to cope. (or so you believe.) Look you made the choice to move to Fairfax so please just enjoy your yard and your commute and let the rest of us talk. [/quote]

Wth? I live IB for Dunbar.

Sure, ok, educated parents are sending their kids to Eastern. Fine. But it's still a foolish strategy to try to convince anyone that Eastern has an actual IB program when it can't get more than a few kids to pass the math CAPE. What Eastern has is a program that they *call* "IB", serving kids who are at best on grade level, and almost entirely below grade level in math. You can call it "IB" all day long but that doesn't change the reality. It makes you, and Easter and DCPS lose credibility, and it makes the "IB" concept meaningless. It's a bad strategy. It will not work. Better to, here's an idea, teach them some math so that more than 1% of them pass the CAPE.[/quote]

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