The Most Challenging High Schools in the DC area

[Henry Bowman]

Originally Posted by JosephineBeth

I was just going to post. Bowie High School? Far as I know Roosevelt ranks higher in PG than Bowie H.S. Or it did when I was looking.

By far....by far.

Stand by for the equivocations about how Roosevelt destroys the rest of the schools of the county by cherry-picking the good kids.

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by JosephineBeth

When I was looking I didn't use these rankings too heavily. I looked at the demographic info on how populations did, overall percent of kids taking AP classes, percent of kids going to college, etc to look at schools. Coming from CA I already knew that things skew test results (like non native english speakers testing and such).

I supplement my daughter's h.s. anyway. We are currently going through a great series of science books (The Story of Science by Joy Hakim), started our read through some great living history texts (Augustus Cesear's World by Foster being a fave of mine), and we are working on latin/greek roots as well as some SAT prep vocabulary. I just picked up a couple of neat The Great Courses too (Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, Art of Reading, and Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about anything). I've never had the opinion that my role was to stand by and watch. I homeschooled my daughter until 3rd grade as well - that was the year she got perfect scores on all the achievement tests.

We're happy with Roosevelt in general...but there are some areas of non challenge for her we are supplementing. I hate (abhor completely) any form of "text" book done by a major publisher and find them all terribly written, boring, and with their own agenda's anyway so I've always worked with my daughter with other sources. She's a very smart kid with an amazing vocabulary.

I wish more people were like you. While no parent should have to worry about the quality of their kids' education in public schools, no kid should be without supplemental education from their parents. Who better to teach kids than their own parents? You are to be commended. You are spot on with everything your doing.