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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm admittedly not great at working with the PARCC data spreadsheets, but from what I can tell, EH's 7th grade math results for white kids* looks basically identical to all other schools, and even better than some DCUM favs:

% Meets/Exceeds:
EH - 84%
SH - 70%
Deal - 86%
Hardy - 81%
Basis - 87%
Latin - 82%
DCI- 69%

* I'm only breaking this down for white kids to dispel the notion that your privileged kid will not learn anything. I would love to do a deeper dive on how the MS do with educating other demographics [b]but that's not really what the discussion is about here, is it?  [/b]

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For me it is. You’re comparing a tiny subset of all test takers at Elliot Hine to cherry pick data, when the data shows that the vast majority of kids at Elliot Hine are [b]below grade level[/b]. The vast majority of kids are at or above grade level at all those other schools (except perhaps 
SH). You cannot tell me that the learning environment at Elliot Hine is going to come close to the same level of education as those other schools when you have so many students struggling with grade level material. 
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Yes I can tell you that, because PARCC is heavily content based, and the kids like mine do exactly the same as they’d do at the more affluent Deal or sought-after Latin. And I can see my kid growing and maturing nicely, learning to manage his workload, get along with others, have fun, and all those good things along with being able to roll out of bed at 8am and walk to school. [/quote]

You are delusional if you think students at EH are learning all the same material as students at Deal, Latin or BASIS. Proficient in PARCC material is the floor. [/quote]

+1.  And I call BS that families at EH don’t supplement and that very high performing kids are going there and getting what they need.

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Some people on here are so strange. You literally have multiple parents who are on here sharing their actual experience, and from the outside anonymous keyboard accuse them of lying? Seems to say more about you if you think kids can't possibly do well without supplementing?
And separately, I think it is possible to agree both that kids in these middle schools are learning, and also agree that standardized tests don't actually measure a whole lot about the kids true skills/abilities. That is a whole separate thread for another time.[/quote]

What motivates them is a psychological defense mechanism. They are so obsessed with the success of their own kids and the sacrifices they make, that they cannot accept that some families in their own demographic will make a different choice and do just fine. It shakes their world view. [/quote]

I can speak to what motivates me. I know several EH families and they’re constantly trying to get other people to send their high performing kids to EH so their own children will have a good cohort because they struck out in the lottery. They come on this website and post misleading things about the test scores in every thread, including this one. If they truly thought the school was good, they wouldn’t be trying to change its demographics so desperately. It’s gross.  [/quote]

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