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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 0% of kids on grade level in math and 12% in ELA. Nobody who’s paying any attention at all chooses that for their kids.[/quote]

True but there seem to be a lot of people who want DCPS to be better and, especially, want their school of right to be better. Part of that could be accomplished by choosing the school of right. I wonder if people are considering that the best predictor of current/future proficiency is past proficiency (that and family wealth and family education)? If 20-30 families with proficient 8th graders choose Roosevelt, on/above grade level classes could be built for them and proficiency would skyrocket at the school.

It is very hard to grow students entering high school to proficiency (4+ on PARCC/CAPE) who are starting at the lowest performance levels (1's mostly not even two's or three's on PARCC/CAPE). I think parents need to choose what's best for their kids but there may be ways to do that at the school of right if parents join together. That seems to be how elementary schools have improved here but selective schools at the high school level weaken the pool of available prepared students for the other high schools. They are great for the kids who get in but still there are other on/above grade level students who need more.[/quote]

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