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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps, but Washington Teachers Union's opposition to elementary school re-openings for two years during the pandemic certainly didn't help, and SWS' middling academic program hasn't improve matters. These days, SWS students are routinely are given good grades in math and ELA although they work a year or more behind grade level.  I've heard similar stories about Brent, and Maury and Ludlow to a lesser extent. UMC Hill parents run to tutors more than my suburban friends with ES-age kids seem to.  Parents who fuss about how white the school is are missing the forest for the trees.  Shaky DCPS ES academics are a problem dwarfing mild racial imbalances.[/quote]

? Not a teacher, but where does this assertion come from? When I look at what topics my kid has learned this year - in math at least, every single topic is on the Khan topic list for that grade. Doesn't seem like Khan lists anything additional either that wasn't covered. The school covered appropriate grade level math (with periodic standardized assessments like iready plus unit based quizzes)[/quote]

The math instruction at SWS just isn't too hot.  Great in theory, not so much in practice.  Writing instruction is far worse.  We meet SWS pals at Mathnasium. We hire a writing tutor with SWS buddies.  Go into the upper grades with your eyes open, folks.
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Just because you and your friends need to take your kids to Mathnasium doesn't mean SWS isn't doing a good job at teaching math. It just means that your kid and your friends' kids need extra support.[/quote]

I would have agreed with this statement pre Covid, in the lower grades.  But by 4th or 5th grade, both of my children were behind in math after more than a year of virtual learning and so-so upper grades in-person math instruction.  At Mathnasium, they've moved ahead of grade level efficiently.  One of them just tested into 6th grade pre-algebra for the MS she will attend.

A kid who can handle 6th grade pre-algebra needs....extra support?  How about the kid would have benefited from solid DCPS math instruction she didn't get.
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