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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here (I identify myself, the rest are not my posts). My school is failing and it’s easy to see. It scores 1/10 on great schools and is a title one school. Kids are behind in every metric. Only white and Asian kids test average, which just shows that their parents are tutoring or hiring tutors. The parents who can’t afford otherwise are completely left behind. Most of the kids in our 2nd grade classroom cannot read and it’s dragging the whole class down.

I’m not sure how you could call a school like this anything but failing?

Yes I could afford to move but why should I have to? I love our house, neighborhood, short commute and I pay a lot in property taxes. If you can’t afford to move, then you’re just sh!t out of luck?[b] Where are the hood magnet and charter schools? Or even special programs within schools? [/b][/quote]

NP. DCUM hates this response, but schools like this are why the AAP program is going nowhere. The students who are testing above grade level have an "out" by 3rd grade, including the URM students. A lot of families will suck it up until then because they know they can get their kids into classes where most of the students are not below grade level. Keeping these programs allows FCPS to placate the families who would otherwise be out of there. FCPS does high school really well. The students who are behind (for whatever reason) in 7th grade do not share classrooms with the students who are on the AP/IB/Honors track except for PE and maybe electives by the time they're in middle school and certainty not when they're in high school.

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