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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other high schools are not as good in actual education, because they do not offer the same coursework. Their "advanced" classes are only pretend-advanced.[/quote]

Also, are there specific examples you can cite? I’ve been wanting to better pin down these differences and it would be helpful to have some specific examples I can run down further. [/quote]

Nobody is going to believe there is on grade level coursework until more than a handful of kids pass the math PARCC, for starters. Yes the PARCC sucks, let's get a different test instead, sure. But you gotta deliver some passing scores--enough to report as something other than "n less than 10".

Also do a better job sharing success. If kids or teachers win awards or whatever, push out that information.

You should be inviting feeder group parents to visit the school, observe classes and teaching, and se student work. Redact the kids' names if you like. Put their work in an online scrapbook that people can see. How about some videos of teachers live teaching? Whatever you can come up with to show quality. But people are still gonna ask why almost all the kids fail the PARCC.

It feels like the attitude is "Our schools are fine, take our word for it or you are a racist". And that really puts people off. If your schools really are quality and the instruction really is on grade level, there should be something you can show us. Right?[/quote]

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