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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]gifted students are not tools to be used to serve the DCPS, they are individuals who deserve an appropriate education
I agree that giftedness may be overstated, many parents are convinced their child is a phenom when the child is just smart
the urge by some parents to deny gifted/smart children a chance to excel and advance is just sour grapes, imo.. it's akin to eliminating varsity football and insisting on all children being given a spot on the bench...it ignores the fact that learning, just like physical prowess, is very different from child to child
leveling the math curriculum will result in youngsters arriving at college unprepared for elementary engineering courses...I guess then we could make college courses last 5 or 6 years as noone arrives at college with more than a basic education in any discipline...that'll be fun to pay for, won't it?
Or we can continue to import out science and tech experts from India and Japan, where I assure you education is 'tracked' from middle school onwards...
the belief that advancing some students is 'bad' will only further dumb down our school systems...and lead to the USA sinking even further behind countries
after all, if that 8th grader fails geometry, or french 4 she'll repeat it, right?

without magnets as an incentive, a lot more people will abandon dcps, trust that!
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Will people leave DCPS? Yes, [b]but many (if not most) will stay[/b] rather then pay ridicules amounts to go to a private school or play the game of Russian Roulette that finding a Charter school that is both good and open is nowadays.

Yeah, if we level the curriculum, the immediate result might be worse test scores and less college readiness, BUT then the 'smart' kids will get their friends (who might very well not be 'smart, as we are quick to characterize kids nowadays) to take that hard AP or Honors class with them. You would be surprised about the power of peer motivation. We hear it all the time about peer pressure (drugs, alcohol, cigarettes?), but if we can use the same basic formula to make sure that most will get a good education that is varied.

Also- DCPS is pretty far from Japan in terms of education. If we try to base our improvements off them, we will just end up failing. We should be focusing on what might make DCPS that little bit better in the long run instead of an impossible competition.

(And yes this is the  OP again, I didn't read the quoted post until I had finished my last post)
-Anne[/quote]

Wrong!  And I have the historical data to prove it.  It is THE reason the suburbs have grown at DC's expense ever since the '50s.  When parents with the means to leave can go?  They will.  And it's not just the wealthy (why are privates so popular in DC?), it is the middle class.  THAT is the reason there are so few middle class families in DC, and especially in DCPS.

You take away the few bright spots in public education here in DC, and families like mine which have begun to re-invest in the District are gone.  No way in hell would I let my children go to a regular DCPS H.S.[/quote]Then maybe we don't want you in DCPS.

Believe it or not, most DCPS families don't have the money to move out of the city or switch to some fancy private school when they feel their little munchkin can't go to some private school wannabe. If you don't want to improve DCPS AS A WHOLE, maybe you shouldn't be involved in it at all.[/quote]

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