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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen, the PARCC isn't a hard test.  Every kid should get a 4.  It's completely egregious that DCPS can't get any (or a single digit worth of) kids at some schools to this level.... DCPS feel good while they're [b]systematically failing kids. [/b] [/quote]

I teach for DCPS. I used to teach college full time at the University of Virginia and part time at another unnamed Virginia institution. The UVA kids had an A average on the exams I'd give them. The kids at the other university would have grades all over the place. I used the same book, same lessons and same exams at both universities. I'd give the exam on a Tuesday, let's say, at UVA and on a Wednesday at the other university. Same professor. Same curriculum. The UVA students would say how much they loved me in their evaluations of my teaching. One student went so far as to say that I had been her favorite teacher of all time, including kindergarten! The other students, some of whom were absent more than 10 times in one semester, were all over the place in their assessments of me. I figured out that year that professors/teachers didn't really matter that much as long as you had motivated students who were or who had been supported in their studies. Maybe I wasn't the best professor ever and maybe I wasn't the worst either.

My son is at one of the top middle schools at FCPS in Northern Virginia. If his school were to swap out all the teachers for those from DCPS's lowest-performing middle school, his school WOULD NOT go to hell. Similarly, the DCPS students would not suddenly be the best and brightest in the city.

Stop blaming the teachers.

I taught in another area district last year. I had a bunch of kids that wouldn't do anything. I had a quick conversation with one of my go-getters after class. I said, "You're parents read to you when you were a kid, right?" She said, "Yes, they did. Why?" I replied, "I can just tell."

Fix the problems at home first.[/quote]

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