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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think actually there has been quite a lot of discussion of growth scores on here.

Thing that bothers me is when I see PARCC a bit over valued. I wish we had other metrics as well aside from things like attendance, re-enrollment. We're really putting a lot of weight on this one metric. [/quote]

Such as?[/quote]

I'm honestly not sure, I was hoping one of the education wonks had an idea.

At the least, I think the scores should be broken down by not only growth but things like number of at-risk and FARM students, so that the raw PARCC score is used in conjunction with these factors. It's like someone said - we're just going to end up with a list that tracks perfectly with the socioeconomic background of the students.

I have a friend whose heart is set on one particular school, and because of PARCC won't consider even any charter schools. I've had a hard time explaining why I think this is misguided. [/quote]

Wonder what school your friend is looking for? I wonder if your friend, that’s only into PARCC, will apply to Bannker when the time comes (if it had the same demographics as today).[/quote]

No because....Wilson...[/quote]

Wilson PARCC scores are atrocious, Banneker’s are amazing. What’s your point?[/quote]

You are smoking something.

Wilson general scores are higher than Banneker's, even if the latter is a selective school that kicks out a third of its male students before graduation.

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Not true and then they had the audacity to blame low scores on students not taking it seriously![/quote]

Even the best schools in DC are terrible, they just do a good job of hiding it behind false rigor! They are especially bad at teaching those kids who really need it, the ones who come in good just keep on going and would do good anywhere. Drill down and look at their stats for ESL, low income, AA males, and Special Ed. Folks only look at overall PARCC scores, for some of our so called "best' schools the data for this pop is worse than some of our 40/40 schools! Everyone is fighting and bickering over crumbs instead of working out what is really going on at DCPS, for a start don't believe anything put out by downtown. All the original architects of School Reform have fled, you are left with a bunch of folks who know nothing and have no historical history of DCPS! It's all a sad state of affairs...those that left could see the writing on the wall and wanted to get out before anyone saw through the smoke & mirrors of the past few years  :roll: [/quote]

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