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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It's easier to do that at the grade school level because you don't need differentiation across a full range of academic subjects, and more families are willing to give it a chance. The stakes are lower. And it's still difficult.

Even if you could get a substantial number of parents to try it, the school might or might not try to meet their academic needs. And what you might describe as buying into your neighborhood school and trying to improve it, many others would describe as white gentrifiers with a sense of entitlement trying to bully a school into providing separate classes for their kids. I don't think that would be a fair description, but why risk it for something with a small chance of success? You can also see what DCPS thinks of families that try this in the case of Maury and the attempts to split it up. It doesn't inspire confidence.

If DCPS wanted my kids or yours to go to Roosevelt or any other EOTP high school, they have a clear path forward via offering a test-in program for all of the academic subjects. They don't do that anywhere.  I can't change that. [/quote]

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