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Robinson falls on list
Posted by: joeysa ()
Date: April 24, 2013 07:43AM

Robinson fell pretty far down on the challenge index (us news and world report) even lower than Lake Braddock, wtf?

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: Robinson ex ()
Date: April 24, 2013 09:01AM

Maybe it is just that Woodson and others have just gotten better or maybe Robinson was overrated all along. Maybe it isn't the students not performing but the administration not plotting a positive course. Guess they can take that big ol banner down sometime that they are the tops.

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: Ram Parent ()
Date: April 24, 2013 10:28AM

That challenge index favors schools that offer AP. Robinson offers IB. Robinson SAT scores are higher than LB and some of the other schools scoring higher on that list.

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: dontworryahh ()
Date: April 24, 2013 12:40PM

In generall I would say they are close enough. It really depends on your own kid forget the stats overall. Robinson seems perfectly fine. Maybe Woodson just got a smart batch and Robinson less smart batch this year.

I would say you could worry if the trend continues but far too much attention is paid to these year to year metrics.

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: Monte Hall ()
Date: April 24, 2013 02:19PM

Maybe it's the unfocused and inept leadership of the much heralded principal. Too busy polishing up his real estate sales presentation skills.

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: Enrico Palazzo ()
Date: April 24, 2013 02:21PM

I heard somewhere a Robinson kid got bullied and kilt himself.

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: RydellRoad ()
Date: April 24, 2013 03:06PM

The "Challenge" index is a totally useless indicator of a school's performance. Based solely on number of tests taken - not number passed. Good commentary here:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/search.php?searchid=3947679

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: Robinson suicides? ()
Date: April 24, 2013 05:50PM

Robinson has how many kids commit suicide in the last three years?

I guess they fail,to mention mental health into the picture.

PS I blame Jack Dale.

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: has had ()
Date: April 24, 2013 05:50PM

Sorry!

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: old timer. ()
Date: April 24, 2013 05:53PM

good thing they didnt have SOLs back when I was in high school, hate to think of a forty year old in remedial math today

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: dumber students ()
Date: April 25, 2013 09:25AM

"We do not include any magnet or charter high school that draws such a high concentration of top students that its average SAT or ACT score exceeds the highest average for any normal-enrollment school in the country. This year, that meant such schools had to have an average SAT score below 2000 or an average ACT score below 29.3 to be included on the list."

So in other words this 'list' actually selects for schools with dumber students and excludes top performing students/schools.


"The Challenge Index is designed to identify schools that have done the best job in persuading average students to take college-level courses and tests. It does not work with schools that have no, or almost no, average students. We put those schools on our Public Elites list."

Maybe they should name the list 'schools that force the greatest number of students to take college tests' - thats all this is.

source http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/abcs-of-americas-most-challenging-high-schools/2013/04/11/ca4f27aa-a2fb-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: afsd ()
Date: April 25, 2013 09:03PM

robinson really should have a banner that reads "absence of excellence" highest percentage of dumb white kids anywhere

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: KPW Res ()
Date: April 25, 2013 09:26PM

afsd Wrote:
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> robinson really should have a banner that reads
> "absence of excellence" highest percentage of dumb
> white kids anywhere

That is so accurate! Robinson was great many years ago and has been going downhill for the past 10+ years.

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Re: Robinson falls on list
Posted by: Bruins Rule ()
Date: April 27, 2013 01:40PM

Ram Parent Wrote:
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> That challenge index favors schools that offer AP.
> Robinson offers IB. Robinson SAT scores are higher
> than LB and some of the other schools scoring
> higher on that list.

Not true, and Lake Braddock has higher SAT scores than Robinson.

Get Dan Meier out as principal and you might do better. When the principal is a dumb, get-rich-quick jock, it doesn't inspire kids to do well.

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