Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet their senior class has gotten into phenomenal colleges/universities. Yep. Must be a terrible place. Full panic. 🙄

No kids at the school but I just looked up the SAT average and it’s abysmal at 964. There is a disconnect here with what you are saying.

What you call a “disconnect” is the simple statistical fact that the average does not define the upper bound of a distribution.

The SAT average at JR is 1083, and everyone knows the top kids there have high scores and attend great colleges. MacArthur is the same.

There is not many kids at the upper bound of distribution if the average is that low.

A few outliers does not define a good school with challenge and rigor.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet their senior class has gotten into phenomenal colleges/universities. Yep. Must be a terrible place. Full panic. 🙄

No kids at the school but I just looked up the SAT average and it’s abysmal at 964. There is a disconnect here with what you are saying.

What you call a “disconnect” is the simple statistical fact that the average does not define the upper bound of a distribution.

The SAT average at JR is 1083, and everyone knows the top kids there have high scores and attend great colleges. MacArthur is the same.

JR is losing families with high performing kids too. People are just leaving DCPS in general. College admits are not as good as in the past.
That’s the reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the MacArthur situation so sad. I happily raised my kids in the city and now I see so, so many families fleeing for the suburbs because they bought in a neighborhood that now feeds to MacArthur. It's tragic. If they opened a new high school, it should have been on par with Jackson Reed

We all believe you 100%. Lol. And tell your friends thanks for the lottery seats!

Anyone can get into MA. They clear their waitlist.

There is a refuge. Advanced academic HS programs that run as school-within-a-school programs in the burbs are the refuge. The MoCo magnets and IB Diploma programs in the VA burbs don't serve high-needs populations. The honors middle school classes in all core subjects in VA are what we need in DC. If DCPS would only follow suit, far more UMC families would stay in the system. We expect so little of our city politicians that they don't need to bother pushing a refuge.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the MacArthur situation so sad. I happily raised my kids in the city and now I see so, so many families fleeing for the suburbs because they bought in a neighborhood that now feeds to MacArthur. It's tragic. If they opened a new high school, it should have been on par with Jackson Reed

We all believe you 100%. Lol. And tell your friends thanks for the lottery seats!

The suburbs are suffering from an explosion of high need populations! There is no refuge!

Anonymous wrote:I find the MacArthur situation so sad. I happily raised my kids in the city and now I see so, so many families fleeing for the suburbs because they bought in a neighborhood that now feeds to MacArthur. It's tragic. If they opened a new high school, it should have been on par with Jackson Reed

We all believe you 100%. Lol. And tell your friends thanks for the lottery seats!

Shameful!

I find the MacArthur situation so sad. I happily raised my kids in the city and now I see so, so many families fleeing for the suburbs because they bought in a neighborhood that now feeds to MacArthur. It's tragic. If they opened a new high school, it should have been on par with Jackson Reed

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet their senior class has gotten into phenomenal colleges/universities. Yep. Must be a terrible place. Full panic. 🙄

No kids at the school but I just looked up the SAT average and it’s abysmal at 964. There is a disconnect here with what you are saying.

What you call a “disconnect” is the simple statistical fact that the average does not define the upper bound of a distribution.

The SAT average at JR is 1083, and everyone knows the top kids there have high scores and attend great colleges. MacArthur is the same.

+1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet their senior class has gotten into phenomenal colleges/universities. Yep. Must be a terrible place. Full panic. 🙄

No kids at the school but I just looked up the SAT average and it’s abysmal at 964. There is a disconnect here with what you are saying.

What you call a “disconnect” is the simple statistical fact that the average does not define the upper bound of a distribution.

The SAT average at JR is 1083, and everyone knows the top kids there have high scores and attend great colleges. MacArthur is the same.

Sounds like people have never been in the building but have a lot of assumptions about what is happening there. They have open houses, you should go. On their acceptance wall are the likes of Howard, Princeton, American, Penn State, Maryland, Minnesota, NC A&T, and SCAD just to name a few. Kids can be very successful at MacArthur.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet their senior class has gotten into phenomenal colleges/universities. Yep. Must be a terrible place. Full panic. 🙄

No kids at the school but I just looked up the SAT average and it’s abysmal at 964. There is a disconnect here with what you are saying.

I'm looking at the school report card and it says 89% of the students didn't meet or exceed expectations in math ... and 97% didn't in science.

Anonymous wrote:And yet their senior class has gotten into phenomenal colleges/universities. Yep. Must be a terrible place. Full panic. 🙄

No kids at the school but I just looked up the SAT average and it’s abysmal at 964. There is a disconnect here with what you are saying.

Anonymous wrote:It's very hard to tell what's going on. The academic performance and disciplinary numbers from osse are on par with Anacostia and Ballou.

Median mediocrity!

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Anonymous wrote:Why does the general population have to suck?

Because people like you are in it.

So you agree.