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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would assume that most families that are trying to opt out are higher SES or have higher education parents than the majority of DCPS kids.  and DCPS knows these are the kids most likely to score well on PARCC so its in DCPS' interest to make them test.   I think its pointless becuase its not my kids job to bring up the test scores especially since DCPS doesn't care about higher achieving kids every other day o the year.  Maybe DCPS should ask all the parents of 4th graders at Brent why they are leaving and not heading to a cap hill middle schoolr or jefferson?  Maybe they should listen to parents when they ask for test in classes, not BS differentiation in the same class, or when parents ask for serious academic rigor.  Maybe, just maybe, then those same parents will be around when you need to use their kid to bring up your test scores.[/quote]

I'm a high SES, highly educated parent, and I WANT my child to take PARCC (and his whole school too) because A) I don't assume I know how my child is going to do and B) I want to be sure that the school is teaching everyone well, and that they address any gaps between genders, races, SES status, etc.  DCPS cares about high SES students just as much as it cares about any other student, I believe.  It's weird that people project so much of their parenting/financial anxieties about life in our increasingly income and race-stratified world onto DCPS.  [/quote]

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