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[quote=Anonymous]OK, so SH doesn't have as small a group of advanced learners as the other DCPS MS programs EotP. What concerns me is that my increasingly lazy kid easily earns 4s in academic subjects at her DCPS ES, and 5s on PARCC. She does this without breaking a sweat, although she's bilingual. The thought of her not being pushed in MS in at least half her subjects doesn't inspire us.

I'm not "leaning on an explanation;" I'm wearying of the lack of challenge and the instructional structures in place to push my student, or closely monitor her progress/effort either. There's very little in the way of on-line homework tracking in DCPS - clearly too much daily work for teachers for the teachers unions to back the practice.  I understand that on-line HW tracking/grading is standard in the burbs and independent schools in this Metro Area, including parochial schools charge as little as 10K, and even some of the higher-performing DC charters.

We're hardly "willfully ignorant" of the composition of Hobson's student body, we're just not impressed with the challenge we've encountered in DCPS to date. Our experiences leave us much less than optimistic about what would go on in MS science and social studies that aren't tracked, particularly without on-line HW tracking, other than perhaps at BASIS. BASIS alone in this public school system has constructed institutional obstacles to social promotion from 6th-8th grades.[/quote]

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