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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give us a break.  Brent students don't score as high on PARCC as schools in Upper NW mainly because those schools got a 25-year head start in serving UMC communities. Brent does darn well for an EotP school that went from having fewer than 200 students, almost all low SES, to having almost 500 students and being overwhelmingly high SES in a little over a decade.  Also, Brent offers 5 specials - most DCPS programs offer 3 or 4.  Good.
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Hmmm ok, then why don’t Brent kids score as high as Inspired Teaching kids? Haven’t they only been open for like 6-7 years???? Stop with the excuses, your $400k pta funds haven’t helped enough with pull outs. OP, choose Maury. They are a 5 star school (94% grade). Brent is 4 star (65%). 30 point difference is HUGE! Maury serves a more diverse population as well.  [/quote]

People, stop with the drama and pettiness.  IST scores well because most the kids are from UMC families just like Brent.  But ITS does not do any tracking while at Brent I know they do with math.  [/quote]

Yes, the point is Brent should be doing better. They are a mediocre school who’s population is not performing the same as their counterparts across the city. It should be concerning, especially since Brent doesn’t have a back up plan for middle and High like wotp and are predominantly relying on Basis and SWW (of which you need to pass parcc). As it stands, only 3/4 of its UMC white students would even be even be eligible to apply.[/quote]

You're right, but then Brent's K classes are 100% in-boundary, or close. The market isn't responding to the mediocrity.  Bummer, I know.

You don't need to submit PARCC scores to apply to SWW.  Applicants applying from private schools haven't taken the PARCC.   Any applicant can submit PSAT or SAT scores instead.[/quote]

If you are at a DCPS school (and possibly DCPCS too) [b]my school dc has your PARCC scores, there is no submitting them.[/b]  Also, if your kids cannot score a 4 on the PARCC I think they Re going to have trouble passing the entrance exam.  I say this to say check before you rely on an anonymous internet poster to say that PARCC doesn’t matter for SWW (or other application schools).[/quote]

They don't have your kid's PARCC scores if you opted out. We opt out at an EotP school every year without difficulty.  The reality is that Cap HIll parents are starting to behave more like WotP parents. Opting out of a bad test making money for super rich Pearson executives and shareholders isn't unusual in Upper NW.

As for SWS becoming more "diverse."  Yes, the school is becoming more internationally diverse, with more UMC parents from Europe, Canada/Mexico, South America, Asia, Australia and even Africa turning up every year. [b] Boo to "diversity" merely being a mix AAs and whites[/b].[/quote]

That's absurd. In the micro-geography of the Hill, concerns about diversity are very much tied into concerns about gentrification and the giant wealth gap right on our blocks, so it absolutely means African Americans.  I'm glad for more international diversity too (as well as the increasing number of mixed race and black UMC families I see on the Hill) but let's not pretend.  [/quote]

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