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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are sh*tting on a parent of an otherwise qualified kid who didn’t get an interview just because the kid climbed Mount Kilimanjaro but no one is saying that this climb makes the kid qualified.

The fact is that the Walls admissions process is not only opaque, subjective, and unfair but absurd.  Two teacher recommendations--graded subjectively by overworked Walls admissions staff--count three times more than GPA.  And a three-question interview (“Pick a number between 1 and 20”) and one paragraph “essay”--the interview graded by a Walls teenager and Walls staff member and the “essay” graded by admission staff--count for six times more than GPA.

No magnet school outside of DC has an admissions process even remotely as dumb as this.

[b]And the results are already in:  Last year, over 30% of Walls 9th graders scored below grade level in math on the PARCC.  [/b]

Does anyone seriously think that the Walls admissions process is selecting the top students in the application pool?
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Wondering: Where are you getting this information? PARCC tests algebra or geometry specifically, not "grade level" for 9th graders.[/quote]

If you go to the OSSE spreadsheets, you can pull the pass rate for all students enrolled in any given grade at any given school, regardless of which math PARCC they took. But if you believe that it’s better for a 9th grader to fail the Geometry exam than to pass the Algebra I exam, then the overall pass rate isn’t meaningful. [/quote]

This is only as accurate as the number of 9th graders who take Algebra and/or Geometry. My kid started at Walls Pre-Calc and a number of their classmates started with Algebra II. PARCC doesn't test beyond Geometry so any 9th graders on an advanced math track would not be included in the stats above - rather than saying 30%. of Walls 9th graders scored below. grade level in math on the PARCC it would be more accurate to say 30% of 9th graders in Algebra I and/or Geometry. [/quote]

Algebra II and Pre Calc are the same thing.[/quote]

No.  Match sequence in DCPS is Algebra I (one year); Geometry (1 year); Algebra II (1 year); then Pre calc, which is trig (plus other stuff, but focus on trigonometry)[/quote]

That is the course sequence, yes. But in spring 2023, DCPS 9th graders taking Algebra II and Precalc (and beyond) all took the Algebra II PARCC.  [/quote]

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