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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish they would be way more transparent about admissions and performance of the IB program. Maybe it's great! But there are numbers that exist that could be easily used to show this, if it's actually the case.[/quote]

Well, clearly it's not great if 1% of the kids are passing the math CAPE. But yes, more information would be lovely.[/quote]

If the 1% is the IB program students, then that’s fine. Your kid will be in the group of kids that are actually learning.[/quote]

Not all the time. They will still take electives and participate in clubs and other ECs with the 99% of kids who are below grade level. Really think about what that means, to be in a school environment where the vast majority of students are struggling to meet minimum academic standards. Think how small and limited this will make your child's experience, how limiting it will be in terms of friendships, what it will look like for your kid post HS when so few peers pursue college, when many don't even graduate.

Some families don't have much choice of whether to send their kids to a school like that. But in DC people have a choice. And most parents who really value education will continue to not choose Eastern simply because they want more and better for their kids.[/quote]

I mean … my kid is at a feeder MS for Eastern and I am aware of all of the considerations for his academic needs. But you sound really gross when you write off the less affluent and yes, Black kids, as being basically worthless. I can tell you that my kid is friends with kids of all types and some of those kids you see and worthless have been bright stars for his life. And he has learned to work with and understand all different types of people. I know you’ll claim I am a bad SJW parent but moving him to an all-white affluent school woule be a huge loss in many respects. [/quote]

PP here. I NEVER said any kid was worthless. I don't think any kid is worthless. That was a word you chose.

Also, my kid is at an Eastern feeder, where she is friends will all types of kids. This is part of why I am so wary of Eastern. I know what it means to maintain friendships with kids on extremely different life trajectories, or who have very different home lives. I think it's very worthwhile and in fact I had friends like this when I was in HS, at a very diverse school.

But Eastern is not diverse, and the truth is that if your child is an academic high achiever with college aspirations, they will be in a small minority at the school. If it were more like 30 or 40 percent of students on that track, I'd be far more interested in the school. Especially if there were also plenty of support for the non-college-bound kids so you could see them moving towards trades and jobs and in a positive direction. That's a lot like the HS I attended, actually.

But that's not Eastern. Eastern has a 70%+ truancy rate. Only 4% of kids are deemed "college ready" according to benchmarking. While almost half of students at Eastern took at least one IB, AP, or dual enrollment course in the most recent school year, less than 20% of those kids (so less than 10% of all students) received a passing score on the exam for that class.

I don't think any student at Eastern is worthless. But I know my kid is college bound, highly academic, and eager to be in a learning environment with like-minded kids. I don't think she'll get that at Eastern. There simply are not enough kids like her there, and I want her to have a more expansive high school experience than to go through an IB program with a handful of similar kids at a school where most kids are just not very academic.[/quote]

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