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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So let me get this straight...  No matter how successful LT is in teaching it's students and achieving goals, it's completely discounted because the children there are predominately brown?[/quote]

no -- it should be discounted because[b] LT has 3x as many IEPs[/b] as any other well performing ES in Cap Hill.  Nearly 1/5 of students have IEPs.  That's not a bad thing unto itself (it's good that they're serving kids with special needs and doing it well), but students with IEPs are tested differently than students without.  It doesn't dismiss performance outright, but it does impact comparison to other schools.  It's reductionist to assume that race is the only factor here.

and before you compare it to SWS 1/8 you should first factor in the medically fragile classrooms.  but SWS hasn't hit testing grades yet[/quote]Actually I find that in its favor.  Do you know how hard I tried to get the parents of the kid I tutored to go to her middle school and get her tested? They went in and were told that the school didn't know anything about that and that was that.  They gave up and their kid never got the extra help she needed.  And these were parents who had it together enough to make their five kids come to this tutoring program all the way through high school.  But they didn't have the sense of entitlement to demand that the kid's school test her.

The high number of IEPs shows that these families got it together enough to demand that the schools test their kids.  Those are more likely to be functional families.[/quote]

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