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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools with larger percentage of higher performing kids get dinged big time because when you are high, there is not much room to go higher and much more difficult than going from 1 to 2.  Much easier to improve and get higher scores when majority if your kids are at the bottom,

Also bar is damn low because the baseline should be at least on grade level and 4 and 5, not 3.
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Yes - they get dinged on this one indicator but don’t suffer from it. Most UMC parents will still opt to send their kids to such high performing schools and the same schools will trend to attract and retain more experienced teachers. Those parents aren’t sending their kids to a low-performing school that happens to do well by OSSE’s ratings (and, of course, no one should expect them too).

Yes - it’s mathematically easier to improve from a a low base but, in practice, we don’t do too well improving kids’ academic performance (as measured by grade-level std) from one year to the next. In fact, it may indeed be easier to maintain kids at 4/5, than to raise 1/2s to a 3 or higher. 
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No it’s much easier to go up 1 point from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 then 4-5, way, way easier.

And when you are at 5, there is no more room to go up.  No growth.

The reality is that OSSE picks and chooses the criteria to make their poorly performing school look better to hide just how awful the kids are performing with their social promotion.

You can make whatever rating you want to try to show yourself in the best light but reality comes all to fast when your kid gets to 3rd grade and up and you see families leave year after year and finally understand why.

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UMC parents have zero excuse for no being on top of things from the jump. The schools are shady, lack transparency, and generally unreliable. That isn’t new despite the faux social contract of “you just send the kids to school well-rested/fed and we’ll do the rest and alert you to any red flags in.” It’s not fair or right, but YOU are the only one capable to ensuring that your kids are where they need to be in terms of ELA and math, just to start.

That UMC types “discover” that their 3rd/4th grader hasn’t mastered grade-level math is beyond me…but I’ve come to expect it, sadly.
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I’m sorry but people like you who make excuses and expect parents to do everything and be on top of everything just because they are UMC are the problem and why DCPS sucks.

So if you are not UMC, you get a pass card out of jail wherever your kid is and if they are below grade level.  If you are UMC, it’s your fault because you did not supplement and know exactly what your kid is learning and provide extra support outside the classroom?

The reality is that when the majority of kids are below grade level, that is where the teaching occurs and the few who are above are left to computers, helping all the other students and their needs are not being met.  The teacher is teaching where the 1 and 2 are to bring them up.  The kid who is 3 and 4 are barely learning anything.

Lastly, lots of UMC parents both work with demanding jobs with multiple kids have the same time constraints. [/quote]

If you understand the “reality” of DC schools, how could you possibly expect the schools alone to get your child where you need and want them to be?

And yes, lower SES demos get a pass on judgement from me on this, but that’s a poor consultation prize. 
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