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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet their senior class has gotten into phenomenal colleges/universities. Yep. Must be a terrible place. Full panic. 🙄[/quote]

No kids at the school but I just looked up the SAT average and it’s abysmal at 964.  There is a disconnect here with what you are saying.[/quote]

What you call a “disconnect” is the simple statistical fact that the average does not define the upper bound of a distribution.

The SAT average at JR is 1083, and everyone knows the top kids there have high scores and attend great colleges. MacArthur is the same. [/quote]

There is not many kids at the upper bound of distribution if the average is that low.

A few outliers does not define a good school with challenge and rigor. [/quote]

The average scores will go up do to an increased number of kids on the high end.

There are more high-performing kids in the current 9th grade because that's the first class of Hardy kids to no longer have j-R as an option.

With that said, if DCPS actually wanted to create a successful rather than middling school, they would have given no Hardy students to the option to choose J-R.  [/quote]

Have you looked at CAPE scores?  Not a lot of high performing kids coming from Hardy esp in math.  Deal was the one contributing many mire high performing kids, the majority, when JR was the only feeder for both schools.

Also only about 1/2 Hardy families continued on to MA thus year.  I would not consider that a lot of buy in.  Scores will not miraculously go way up with such a small sample.  [/quote]

Hardy and Deal both have >95% of students meeting or exceeding on Geometry CAPE. Both the highest in the city.

For Algebra I, Deal had 92% meeting or exceeding, Hardy 84%. Only other school with higher rate was MacFarland at 86%.[/quote]

We are talking high performing so look at exceeding only and Geometry or higher.   Also take that and actually get absolute numbers of kids.[/quote]

Meeting standards on coursework two years years ahead of grade level is not high performing? There are very few schools anywhere that are going to meet your standards then.

In any case, Deal had 63% level 5 on Geometry, Hardy 28%. Both the highest in the city.[/quote]

Example of low expectations.  Algebra 1 is the standard track and anything below that is remedial for any college bound kid.  Geometry is just 1 year ahead.  Algebra 2 in 8th is 2 years ahead.

People in the burbs would laugh in your face if you think Algebra 1 in 8th is advance.

So Deal has not only more than 2 times the number of high performing kids in percentages but also more than 2 times the absolute number of kids.  Thanks for proving my point that majority of high performing kids going to JR in the past was from Deal.[/quote]

Enjoy the suburbs I guess.[/quote]

You should if you have a mathy and Stem kid because geometry and Algebra 2 are a standard part of the curriculum.  Algebra 2 will get you to AP Calculus by 10th and you can go 2 years beyond that.  TJ is the only school which offers even more advancement and if your kid is gifted, that is where they should go.

It’s shocking that the majority of DCPS middle schools don’t even offer Geometry.  The few that do that is the highest.  No Algebra 2.  But I guess if 95% of the kids are below grade level in math, there is no point because you don’t have any kids who can do it.

Social promotion and low expectations is a vicious cycle that begets more.[/quote]

This forum is for talking about DC schools. Writing the same thing (no DC school is good enough) over and over across multiple threads isn't really contributing to the conversation. You don't need to continually justify your own decision to move to the suburbs to us.[/quote]

Sorry to burst your bubble but I’m in DC.  I just don’t wear rose colored glasses and get out of the bubble of low expectations in this city sometimes and have friends in the burbs.

If you can’t acknowledge deficits and accept the status quo,  then there isn’t a path or avenue for improvements. [/quote]

Telling people to move to the suburbs because all the DC schools they have access to suck won't lead to better DC schools.[/quote]

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