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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right.  The test scores do speak for themselves.  Considering the demographics of the school (which are raised repeatedly on these boards), there should be many, many, many more 5s on PARCC.

Fine to have the debate about whether test scores are important.  And fine if your definition of "good test scores" is that the achievement gap is not too wide (SWS does ok relative to other schools in this area).

But if you are looking for a place where your smart kid has the opportunity to advance beyond grade level academically, SWS is probably not the place.

As an aside, many people characterize the curriculum as not challenging.  There is some of that but I think the bigger problem is that the curriculum is not focused on the right things.  No focus on the fundamentals of writing.  No focus on math fluency (or accuracy, even).   Social studies and science (to the extent it exists) are very concept-based and not fact-or knowledge based.  I realize that all elementary school education is trending this way to some degree.  But SWS takes it really really far.

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So which schools would you recommend for these things?[/quote]

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