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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you being sarcastic?  My nephews attend a public MS in Arlington not 7 miles from SH. The school's percentage of at-risk students is much higher than SH's.  Yet this school teaches 6th grade English on several levels and 8th grade English on four. Students at this school can qualify for "intensified" 7th and 8th grade classes in science, English, math (up to 8th grade geometry and Algebra II) and social studies (geography for HS credit in 8th grade) by earning good grades the year before. This might be a stupid question, but [b]why in the world doesn't DCPS/SH support an academic tracking system[/b] like?  Like a lot of in-boundary residents with kids, we wouldn't give a hoot if enrichment wasn't too hot at SH because we have great after-school/weekend options around the neighborhood for art, music, drama, dance, sports, you name it.  We didn't get into Latin or BASIS and have no viable PS option but SH for 6th grade.

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Because if it were based on PARCC scores, it would have vast racial disparities in the different tracks and they don't want to deal with the outcry that would cause. 
Also because research shows that kids who are below grade level do better in mixed-level classes and they, not kids above grade level, are DCPS' primary focus. IB parents are mistaken when they think DCPS cares about getting neighborhood families to choose local schools. That is not a priority at all. The priority is to increase graduation rates and standardized test scores for low-income children. If anything, getting in-bounds families to choose their neighborhood schools is a net negative, because it leaves fewer spaces for poor yet motivated families to lottery in from out of bounds. [/quote]

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