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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Upper middle class kids perform about the same regardless of school.  I went to DCPS in the eighties and nineties, had shit teachers, and somehow managed to attend an ivy and receive an advanced degree.  Just because a certain population of kids does well doesn't mean the school is responsible.  [/quote]

This is true.  The test scores at my neighborhood school were atrocious yet the 2 or 3 middle class kids who attend managed to score 4/5 on the standardized tests (you can tell by filtering for FARM performance vs overall school performance).  When people say white kids perform better at one school vs another, they are statistically arguing about the performance of one or 2 children per grade not testing well.  A better indicator is how a school is serving its minority and low income population.[/quote]

Actually the argument is that there are some charters that even do that better than DCPS. There is a charter hater that came on here shouting her hate and she should be put in her place. Also, many of these charters have more than 1-2 middle class kids per grade. [/quote]

You think perhaps that's why they are doing better?  Obv a school with more middle class kids is going to outperform its lower income counterpart.  So perhaps some charter schools are better than some public schools.  It's called socio economics.  [/quote]

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