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Our school with minimal farms and minimal diversity only got 4.

How does that happen to a school with UMC kids? How can kids who were essentially set up to thrive barely pass?

Let me guess QO cluster?

Could be Sherwood or Damascus also.

Our school with minimal farms and minimal diversity only got 4.

How does that happen to a school with UMC kids? How can kids who were essentially set up to thrive barely pass?

Let me guess QO cluster?

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Anonymous wrote:Posters need to stop just blaming demographics. QO has more Asian and White students than Rockville HS and NW but scored about the same. Something is wrong at QO and the principal should be concerned.

It’s a new principal.

groups "examined" - FARMs, minorities, special ed, ESOL

No one cares how well the "haves" do. If certain groups are not meeting standard, the school suffers.

This is NO different from past efforts. It's just much more visible now. What was once a county issue is now a state issue. What the counties could once hide . . .

And I can guarantee the county will still find ways to minimize numbers - especially in cases of behavior. Rather than suspending/expelling, a kid will go on IIS (home and hospital). Or they'll resurrect in-school suspensions by keeping them IN school but out of classrooms for a day or more.

ESSA doesn't solve problems. It just forces schools to be more creative, and it becomes another teacher-blaming avenue. Who would want to enter the profession at this point? We can't keep teachers as it is b/c of this BS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Haha! Our PTA president said look, we got 4 out of 5 stars! And the principal will never explain that means that barely half the school is proficient in either math or language. No one seemed to care what the actual data meant.

Our school with minimal farms and minimal diversity only got 4.

How does that happen to a school with UMC kids? How can kids who were essentially set up to thrive barely pass?

depends on enrollment and status of kids
While the majority of kids may be UMC, if there is a pocket of poverty - no matter how tiny - and these kids aren't at level, rating goes down.

what I love? the attendance issue who rolls from school to school (by choice or b/c the system moves him/her) - That kid will create attendance issues at EVERY school in which s/he is enrolled. lol - one kid = multiple problems

This is why ESSA is a joke. It won't last long. Look at PARCC. to be replaced by something else

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Most of them are happy and tweeting out their high numbers regardless of how bad the actual report card is.

This!

Our principal made a HUGE deal about this. Yet, our results are not so hot.

Anonymous wrote:Posters need to stop just blaming demographics. QO has more Asian and White students than Rockville HS and NW but scored about the same. Something is wrong at QO and the principal should be concerned.

It’s a new principal.

Posters need to stop just blaming demographics. QO has more Asian and White students than Rockville HS and NW but scored about the same. Something is wrong at QO and the principal should be concerned.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Publicly, our principal is boasting, privately she’s going ballistic on us teachers to get these lousy numbers up. She’s no idiot. She knows what this data shows.

Did your school get a 5?

No we got a 4 and w/i top 3/4 percentile. I just wish she’d calm down.

Our PTA said that Montgomery County is putting together its own report card that isn't based on PARCC. Our ES got a 3, just shy of a 4, which was surprising to me; i thought it would be better.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Haha! Our PTA president said look, we got 4 out of 5 stars! And the principal will never explain that means that barely half the school is proficient in either math or language. No one seemed to care what the actual data meant.

Our school with minimal farms and minimal diversity only got 4.

How does that happen to a school with UMC kids? How can kids who were essentially set up to thrive barely pass?

Because being poor and brown
Means you are dumb?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Haha! Our PTA president said look, we got 4 out of 5 stars! And the principal will never explain that means that barely half the school is proficient in either math or language. No one seemed to care what the actual data meant.

Because the data you're talking about is the PARCC results and one care about PARCC

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Publicly, our principal is boasting, privately she’s going ballistic on us teachers to get these lousy numbers up. She’s no idiot. She knows what this data shows.

Did your school get a 5?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Haha! Our PTA president said look, we got 4 out of 5 stars! And the principal will never explain that means that barely half the school is proficient in either math or language. No one seemed to care what the actual data meant.

It would have been better without the star ratings, just with the percentiles. Then they wouldn't mask the differences between a 74 and a 61.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Haha! Our PTA president said look, we got 4 out of 5 stars! And the principal will never explain that means that barely half the school is proficient in either math or language. No one seemed to care what the actual data meant.

Our school with minimal farms and minimal diversity only got 4.

How does that happen to a school with UMC kids? How can kids who were essentially set up to thrive barely pass?

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a principal who is freaking out about their report card? Townhalls with parents flipping out? Not sure if this report card is a good idea.

Publicly, our principal is boasting, privately she’s going ballistic on us teachers to get these lousy numbers up. She’s no idiot. She knows what this data shows.