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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.  [/quote]

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney.  The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school. [/quote]

I do think that taking out one PK 4 class might be prudent, but FWIW my child's K class has 19 kids and 1st ranges from 19-22.  Current 2nd grade and 4th grade seem to be the balloon years.[/quote]

Yup - Kindergarten at Janney only has 99 students which is down 30 from the number that the current 4th grade class started with and someone told me pre-K took the most non siblings of the last 4 years.

[b]FWIW our DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney and we (and everyone else we know for that matter) had no concerns about their instruction.[/b][/quote]

I know a lot of parents who were not happy. [/quote]

I'm a new poster. My DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney. DC was thriving. I cannot care less about the test.[/quote]

He/she just can't take standardized tests unlike his peers elsewhere in upper NW.   :roll: [/quote]

Lol no, I don't know yet which scores DC got, but DC writes very well, likes to draw, plays three musical instruments and is doing Kumon 5th grade level math. DC also reads quite a bit. So I know DC is doing very well indeed, regardless of PARCC scores![/quote]

Well of course your child is "thriving".  Your'e doing hard core academic supplementation outside of school (which I consider Kumon to be). 
His/her thriving probably has very little correlation with what is or isn't being taught at Janney.  The fact that [b]47%[/b] of the third grade is testing [b]below grade level [/b]does.  [/quote]

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