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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Times do change. Problem is, DCPS middle schools don't change as much, or as fast, as most of us in the neighborhood would like.

We've been waiting for honors classes in science and social studies to arrive at our neighborhood middle school--Stuart Hobson--since honors English and math classes were created there more than 10 years ago. Admins have told us that no such classes are planned, because "placement would be a problem since the PARCC doesn't test these subjects." Such crap. Half the kids in the school still don't test proficient.

Our student has seldom been challenged or pushed at his (heavily gentrified) DCPS ES school in the upper grades. Pretty clearly, more of the same is in store if we go with a DCPS MS. Just not worth it.[/quote]

Look we all know that the only reason DCPS tracks for math and ELA is because they want to look good as a school district in PARCC.  It’s not because they believe in challenging the higher performing students,  That’s the bottom line and why DCPS will never be a high performing school system or attract the students to get them there.

There is never going to be majority buy in from UMC parents.  I mean just look st the disaster that is happening at Wilson with the detracking in honors for all.  The only decent neighborhood high school in the city with decent scores.  They think they can detrack there because majority are at grade level.  So short sighted because many UMC families in the zone will no longer send their kids there.  Watch the scores go down.  [/quote]

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