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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But if you choose Stuart Hobson for MS inboundary what are you going to do for HS if you can't afford private school and your kid fails to test into SWW in 8th grade (a common enough outcome).

If your kid is white (generally no whites at Banneker) and not interested in the performing arts (for Duke Ellington), then what?  There really aren't any UMC families at Eastern HS, a failing school by every measure.

BASIS sounds like torture in HS for all but a very small and super nerdy subset that doesn't mind the weak facilities (no library, real gym, stage/auditorium, outdoor space etc) and lack of emphasis on applied/hands-on learning.

The fact that they get a new head almost every school year does nothing to inspire confidence in this parent.[/quote]

Send your kid to school with--gasp--kids of color? About 40% of kids at Eastern got a 3 or above on the ELA PARCC so there will be several hundred kids there who would be on the same academic level as a kid who fails the Walls test. Even in math, there are over 100 kids on this level so your kid will have a cohort of kids working at grade level. You could lottery/apply to lots of other schools, including Bard, Coolidge Early College, Haynes, Cap City, DCI (3 lottery slots right there), McKinley Tech, WLA. Eventually, Sojourner Truth will open too.

Or if that's too bold of an idea for you, I guess you'd have to move IB for Wilson or out of DC altogether. The DC government doesn't owe you a school with the right number of white kids for your own personal preference. And they don't owe you a special school that's for kids too mediocre for Walls but not quite as bad as you're afraid of having in your kid's class. [/quote]

Are you kidding me about Eastern? You realize that a 4 for PARCC scores is grade level right?  Last year only 18% students in ELA got a 4 and only 4% in Math.  PARCC 3 is terrible and below grade level and even with that it’s only 38% in ELA and 15% in math.  So the remaining difference from 100% is way below grade level, i.e the overwhelmingly majority of the school.  It’s abysmal.

The only reason DCPS lists 3 and 4 as measures for PARCC is because many schools have no 5’s at all. Their criteria is very low because the students are so poor performing.  The parameter really should be 4 (grade level) and 5 (exceeding grade level).[/quote]

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