Reply to Can anyone tell me the story of Stuart-Hobson?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Can anyone tell me the story of Stuart-Hobson?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here - I'm curious - if Brent, Maury, and SWS don't feed into SH which school(s) do they feed into?  And if by chance they all feed into the same school, then why the concern about them having to feed into SH in order to make it better.  Surely, if they all fed into the same MS then that MS would improve quite quickly given all the high SES families at those three schools?[/quote]

Here are the DCPS feeder patterns https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY17-18%20School%20Feeder%20Patterns.pdf

Maury and SWS feed to Eliot Hine

Brent feeds to Jefferson
[/quote]

Got it!  Thanks that's helpful.  Is Eliot Hine not an option folks are willing to consider?  Particular if a large cohort of families transitions together?[/quote]

No one wants to be first, essentially. And SWS used to just be early ed, so there weren't 5th grade graduates before now.[/quote]

The PARCC scores worry folks --

2017 % Proficient or Advanced

EH
ELA 5%
Math 9%

Those are likely skewed by the fact that 30% of the school population is SN (w/an IEP). [/quote]

No - the students in the medically complex classrooms are not taking the PARC.  And kids w/ autism aren't necessarily scoring low on the parc just because of their disability.  You can't just use % of SN kids as an excuse for poor scores.[/quote]

On learndc.org it shows that 0% of EH students with special needs were proficient or advanced on PARCC.

Fewer than 25 students at EH took the alternative assessment. I don't have time to do the math to figure out how many students may not have been tested at all, but that is rare. SN kids have to take PARCC or the MSAA.
[/quote]

Yes, I know it's rare. Are you familiar with the children in the medically complex classrooms at SWS? Maybe not. F[b]or some reason they shunt those kids to the basement.  They are not taking the PARCC, I assure you[/b]. [/quote]

There's a lot of BS to wade through in this thread, but this comment is particularly egregious and offensive.  For starters, these are children with profoundly difficult medical conditions who are  treated with compassion and love.  The SWS community experienced a death of one student last year and it was a gut wrenching experience.  To trivialize within the context of this tired CH MS thread is just wrong.

The PARCC is irrelevant -- the oldest students are in 2nd grade, but even if there were older students it's entirely besides the point.  These are not students with IEPs or high functioning autism where an inclusion model is appropriate.  Maximum capacity is 16  students and the numbers have varied between 12-16.  The teacher and caregiver to student ratio is not comparable to an inclusive school model.

"Choose kindness"[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics