Anonymous wrote:We feel that way after almost 8 years at our thoroughly gentrified DCPS ES EotP. The school has always given our children top grades, even when they have worked up to a year behind grade level in writing and math due to Covid learning loss. Good tutors have sorted them out this fall. We’re already eager for a parochial middle school for our eldest, applying now. I can’t imagine staying the course in DCPS for 7, 8 or 9 more years.

You are not alone and that is not specific to DCPS. We had a similar experience at a HRCS. They wouldn't give out 5s because they weren't testing that material, there was a huge range of kids with all 4s. It gave zero visibility into where they actually were. Compound that with the fact that our HRCS didn't challenge kids, require them to take notes or do any actual studying and they were shell shocked when they went to a real MS.