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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the bottom line people. I’ll make it easy for everyone,

If your kid is at level 1 or 2 and you are looking for a school to help them “grow”, feel free to look at these parameters.

If your kid is at level 4 or 5, forget it, look and see if the majority of kids are at 4 and 5.[/quote]

And for those of us not inbound for schools with the majority of kids at 4-5 I think there is a difference between a school with 40-50% 3-5 and 10-20%.  My inbound might not be amazing but there seems to be enough on grade level kids to mean that they will be ignored.[/quote]

That’s not how it works.  So if you have 40-50% 3-5, that basically translates to maybe 20% at grade level at best because we know majority in that group are 3 and not 5.  The remaining 50-60% kids are all way below grade level.

Instead of keeping those 20% kids together and track them for grade level teaching.  Gasp!  We can’t have that because of “equity”.  What the school does is spread those 20% kids out among the 3 or 4 classes so you have a handful of kids in each class at best on grade level.  Teaching won’t be on grade level like your assumption.
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Love how you are confidently making things up for my inbound school.  It is actually 56% 3-5 and 35% 4-5.  Also students with 3’s are not hopelessly below grade-level and especially at the elementary level often include at least some students doing OK who test poorly.  My school also includes about 40% students that are English language learners so this suggests most native English students at the school are actually on or approaching grade-level.  The ELL students are getting significant push in and pull out help (95% of those made their growth targets!).  I acknowledge that this is not the same as being a Janney but I just don’t get why you are so invested at telling others that such a school couldn’t possibly work.[/quote]

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