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[quote=Anonymous]Back to the original question, "Why are HRCS so popular (even though their test scores stink)?

Reason number 1:  Parents don't swear at their children on the playground.  My HRCS has awful test scores. I don't care because my child is happy, safe, loved, and nurtured.  Amongst the other benefits, I don't have to worry about parents, teachers, admin, etc cussing at my young, impressionable child.  I also don't have to worry about weapons, drugs, gangs.

Truthfully, I'm not even worried about test scores.  The PARCC test is not a great indicator of my child's college success IMHO.  Who tests a kid at 3rd grade to decide whether they will be successful in college?  If that were the case, why isn't Harvard, Yale, and Stanford looking at my 3rd graders PARCC results.  Hmmm -- could it be that they know that they don't matter.  We are talking about elementary school!

Obviously, high school matters (colleges do look at those scores) so I will look at middle schools that feed into top DS high schools (BASIS, Latin), but I am personally overjoyed that my child is at a CS where he is cared for and where test scores stink (just another indicator to me that teachers care about him and not teaching to a test).[/quote]

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