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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just stumbled on this thread. Good stuff, OP. Interesting read.

Sam2[/quote]

sorry -- lost me at this:

"There are plenty of good schools in DCPS. I acknowledged this yesterday when saying that I view[b] 95 out of the 120 DCPS schools as abject failures[/b]. This leaves 25 functional schools, a number far larger than just those in upper northwest."

grouping all multi-race students together as a single entity is equally ham fisted, but a single year of PARCC data does not qualify a schools as "abject failure".  If nothing else that's a serious sample size issue.  Not that it was in scope of that analysis, but OP should consider controlling for poverty and at-risk factors before drawing such an odious blanket conclusion about such a large pool of schools.  It seriously undermines OP's credibility however many ditto heads encourage this.[/quote]

I'm the OP. I don't object to this response, and I caution others against portraying you as a hater.

I will explain, a bit, however. I've been in the city for a long time (since early in Tony Williams' administration). When I said I considered schools abject failures, it was most certainly not a function of the PARCC scores. It was a function of years, decades even, of systemic and systematic failure. I'm talking about math teachers at Cardozo High assigning collages as homework. (An industrious reader can google for the article. It was in the Post, circa 2004, give or take.) I'm talking about schools where truancy rates of students routinely break 40%. I'm talking about policies like social promotion, where students who are woefully unprepared are "advanced" to the next grade, kicking the proverbial can down the road until they graduate, unable to read, write, do math, and, honestly, function in society. The blame is extensive. Some of it lies with the students. Some, much even, lies with their parents. Some it is is the product of soft and hard bigotry and discrimination. Some of it lies with the teachers, administrators and central office. In short, my attribution of a school as an abject failure has nothing to do with race, poverty and at-risk factors, per se. Over time, these descriptions fit fewer schools, but they still apply extensively across the city, and we should demand improvement and accountability. [/quote]

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