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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just LT that feeds into SH.
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Well played...oh wait. There you go again with "feelings" instead of data. Quiz time!!!

The category is: PAARC scores for 4th and 5th graders (you know, the ones who are closest to MS).  Between Brent, LT, Watkins and JO, of the following 4 categories, in how many does Brent have a higher percentage* of students scoring "proficient" (meaning 4 or 5) than all others?

4th grade ELA 
4th grade math
5th grade ELA
5th grade math

If you guessed "zero", you win!

* Know why I phrased it like that? Because on the math 4th grade Watkins scored the same as Brent.  And in 5th grade math Watinks in closer to Brent than Brent is to LT. So, yeah, SH is fed by not just LT. It also has Watkins and its educational outcomes feeding in as well. But you are not wrong that Brent is whiter, so there's that...
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Why are you so angry at Brent? I feel like more parents I know understand that Brent has it own set of challenges and are working to fix them. I also know a set of Brent parents working hard to support our middle school feeder. I understand something happened in 2010 and then I guess again around the boundary review but I find it ironic that you attack people for not reading the data but then assume nothing has change at Brent. In the last 3 years, the Brent 5th grade has tripled in size. Do people still leave after 4th grade? Sure but we are proud of the changes we have going on as well.

Congrats on the progress you have made but attacking other communties is not helpful for anyone. [/quote]

Not angry at Brent. A little frustrated by the reading comprehension of Brent supporters, but not Brent itself. The thread is about SH. As usual, Brent posters chimed in to sh*t on SH at the exact same time they express frustration that they are not a SH feeder. And they do it with a sense of entitlement that indicates that somehow no MS can succeed without them, usually by ignoring data and actual trends and replacing them with their own world view and/or a dated and historical understanding of ES and MS education. If you go back and read every single one of my responses you will see that I frequently comment that (i) Brent is an excellent school and (ii) I am sympathetic to the fact that they feel they don't have a viable MS option. Comparisons to Brent scores are illustrative of the actual data that shows that other schools, SH feeders in fact, are matching or outperforming Brent. Now were I to be making that case at the same time I bashed Brent I'd be as intellectually dishonest as the Brent poster. But I am not doing that. Brent has been the gold standard on the Hill (although, in truth, Maury outperforms it in all relevant metrics). The fact that LT and Watkins are at or near that level is a statement of fact, one which I harp on to illustrate the improvement of SH feeders (which, if you go back and read this thread, Brent supporters simply refuse to acknowledge as fact) as well as to explain why many of us believe that the trajectory of SH is quite positive.

With all due respect, look in the mirror. The people articulating the growth of SH feeders and reasons for a positive outlook for SH are not in fact bashing other schools. That behavior is limited to Brent families who continue to suggest that nothing is changing, nothing can possibly change, and only the presence of Brent could possibly solve the utter failure of Hill education.

P.S. The posters who come right out and say that a successful school isn't about measurable educational outcomes, but rather about being white and high SES-enough do in fact piss me off. And I'm a high SES white person.[/quote]

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