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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps, but Washington Teachers Union's opposition to elementary school re-openings for two years during the pandemic certainly didn't help, and SWS' middling academic program hasn't improve matters. These days, SWS students are routinely are given good grades in math and ELA although they work a year or more behind grade level.  I've heard similar stories about Brent, and Maury and Ludlow to a lesser extent. UMC Hill parents run to tutors more than my suburban friends with ES-age kids seem to.  Parents who fuss about how white the school is are missing the forest for the trees.  Shaky DCPS ES academics are a problem dwarfing mild racial imbalances.[/quote]

? Not a teacher, but where does this assertion come from? When I look at what topics my kid has learned this year - in math at least, every single topic is on the Khan topic list for that grade. Doesn't seem like Khan lists anything additional either that wasn't covered. The school covered appropriate grade level math (with periodic standardized assessments like iready plus unit based quizzes)[/quote]

The math instruction at SWS just isn't too hot.  Great in theory, not so much in practice.  Writing instruction is far worse.  We meet SWS pals at Mathnasium. We hire a writing tutor with SWS buddies.  Go into the upper grades with your eyes open, folks.
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Was your kid is truly testing behind? Or they were on grade level and you felt like you had to push more?

If my kid is learning grade appropriate topics AND testing at or above grade level on standardized tests (which they are), I'm good.
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Kid was testing above grade level pre Covid in math and ELA, testing at least a year behind afterwards.  Now testing almost a year above in math and two years in ELA after a year or weekly tutoring.  DCPS didn't seem to give a hoot that many SWS kids were behind.  I saw no serious effort to catch kids up.  But, yeah, the whiteness of the school is the real problem.[/quote]

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