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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:11, you're right. I worded that poorly. Students in most low-peforming DCPS schools now take 6 practice tests for the DCCAS. The process of sitting for that test is 4 hours. 6x 4 is 24.

There is plenty of teaching time focused on performing well on those practice tests, not to mention the 2 week period of school that is devoted to the actual taking of the DC CAS. At Brent, more time is devoted to standardized test taking than say, foreign language.

Plenty of parents are ok with that amount of time learning to take a test. Those parents will stay.

I'm a Brent parent and it's a nice school, but if I get lucky in a lottery that gets my kids more arts, or language and less test prep, I'll be gone.

Yes, test prep is a problem everywhere, but especially so at Brent where the poverty is concentrated in the upper grades. The FARMs tend to do poorly on the test and Brent is under pressure to raise those scores.

Even if your child can do very well on the test, they will still be subject to this test prep.

Right now the focus on Brent is a viable middle school. I can tell you right now there is no way my kids will be around that long if the focus doesn't move off of getting a high score on the DCCAS.

Clearly, there are others who feel differently.[/quote]

As the gentrifiers move through the school, you'll start getting years where every kid in a testing kid is a kid who can do very well on the test.  I'd say that will happen in less than 3 years.  Then there will be less focus on test prep.[/quote]

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