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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]JR is fine but crowded.  Capitol Hill just needs to attend its in bound schools en masse.  I know that is not at all an answer if your child is approaching high school. [/quote]

[b]Correction - JR is not fine. [/b]It is a hot mess. Just because it is more appealing than most other DCPS high schools does not mean it is fine.

And frankly I have a hard time believing that the MacArthur principal is a knight in shining armor like many parents are desperately trying to imagine [/quote]

THIS!! JR is NOT fine. DCUM always makes such a big deal about UMC demographics, but by that measure, JR is shockingly bad. Less than 10 students scored a 4 or 5 on the math PARCC? And I know someone will say kids skip the test, but is that true of *all* the UMC kids who DCUM assumes would be scoring a 4 or 5? [/quote]

You are misreading the data. 664 students took the math PARCC. 122 scored a 4 or 5. In all likelihood fewer than 10 scored 5, so they suppress the number of 4s as well, to prevent people like me from backing out the exact number of 5s.

Also you need to bear in mind that the best math students take one math PARCC in high school (Algebra 2, in 9th) while the worst take at least two. So at schools like JR and Walls where a lot of freshmen take Algebra 2, the overall numbers look worse than they are.[/quote]

Reality is standards in DC are so low and it’s true that JR and Deal stats are not good at all for the demographics, no matter what excuse PP above makes.

Reality is also that alot of the top kids at Deal don’t go to JR.  This has become even more prevalent since honors for all and that sh’tshow[/quote]

But we’re in agreement that 122 > 10, correct?[/quote]

Sure but no matter how you slice it, numbers are abysmal. [/quote]

NP. Are you a child? You were wrong. Either own it or have the decency to go away. [/quote]

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