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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can’t expect the sun, the moon and the stars from any DCPS school academically, OP.  Writing instruction tends to particularly weak. We’re not at SWS but share a writing tutor with a 5th grade family at SWS. There just isn’t much emphasis on teaching spelling, grammar and usage in this school system, along with insufficient practice at school.  Not a huge deal but we couldn’t make another Hill DCPS program work through the upper grades without supplementing significantly at some cost.[/quote]

My first grade sws student literally brings home a stack of "books" that she writes in school. All three of my kids are ahead of peers in their reading and writing and I can say we have literally done nothing at home to supplement at home. Could it be that one 5th grader is not reflective of the entire curriculum?[/quote]

The rubber hits the road at about 2nd.  Not many 5s on parcc.  If you don’t believe test scores matter than sws is a great fit for you.  Signed, a parent whose child was scoring below grade level while at sws but is now scoring 3 years above grade level after 2 years at a different public school, where they also happen to be much much happier. [/quote]

I agree. My 4th grader was scoring way above her grade at different school. Now, after 3years at SWS she is falling.

I have two kids in the upper grades and this is just pure trolling.  The teachers are particularly strong in the upper grades.  And the test scores speak for themselves.  https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0175/student-achievement?lang=en[/quote][/quote]

Right, pure trolling because the poster doesn't agree with your view on the quality of upper grades instruction.

SWS' test scores are consistently seriously mediocre, barely, for the demographics represented, period.[/quote]

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