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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You'll find the most diversity (in the superficial racial sense) at Murch, the wannabee M that its boosters keep trying to attach to JKLM.[/quote]

Just curious, why shouldn't "Murch" be attached to JKLM?[/quote]

NP.  Some people correctly point out that, if there can be only one /M/, it should probably be the M school with the higher scores, the better facility, and the higher SES parent body.     The clear winner there is Mann.     However there may be two /M/ schools in Ward 3.    If so, then there's no reason not to throw in Murch.   Whose facility is overcrowded, whose parent body is less [u]uniformly[/u] high income, and, oddly, whose standardized test scores have fallen every year for the past several years, to the point that they're now lower than a bunch of other schools.

As a neighborhood parent, that last point is the most compelling one.  Especially because current Murch parents publicly and proudly announce that they don't care.  See previous DCUM threads.

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Your facts about scores are out of date, and to to claim anything on DCUM represents all parents from one school is dubious at best. Test scores rose last year while falling at several other JKLMM schools. In years where the tests didn't align with what schools were supposed to be teaching, other JKLMM schools had higher scores. When the two were aligned better last year, Murch's scores rose and others were level or dropped. As a parent, that would worry me that other schools were teaching more to the test. Also, we aren't talking about huge differences in test scores between these schools - less than 5% difference in all these schools being discussed.

BTW, if you are putting a lot of weight on test scores, I hope you also aren't wondering how to opt your children out of any tests DC wants to give. You can't have it both ways.
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