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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, good, it's more "spread the smart kids out" nonsense.  Here's a news flash - my daughter is not some tool for achieving social justice - she's a kid who deserves an appropriate education, just like all other kids.  That she requires more advanced instruction is not her fault, just like it's not the SN kids' fault.  If you want to eliminate any programs for advanced kids and send her to the run-of-the-mill DCPS, she won't be in DCPS anymore.  And I can't imagine she'll be the only one.  [/quote]

But where are the "advanced" programs you refer to?  DC doesn't support neighborhood ES or MS talented and gifted programs - the handful of schools with "accelerated learning" programs must use PTA raised funds to pay for them.   Charters use luck as their sole criterion for admissions, throwing kids needing remediation in classes with "advanced" kids.  And the several magnet high schools don't demand that kids take tough admissions tests - SWW is half black and surely wouldn't be if the admissions tests were anything like the SSAT in NYC, not without steering low-income kids coming up through TAG programs from an early age into elite high schools via test prep, like NYC has done for decades.  Upper-middle-class blacks still tend to avoid DCPS.   DC's several elite public high schools are in fact seriously run-of-the-mill when compared to the suburban magnets, particularly Thomas Jefferson in Alexandria and the two magnets at Blair Montgomery HS (admitting around 15% of applicants).   The proof?  TJ gets more kids into a single Ivy, Little Ivy, US military academy, top tech school like MIT in one year than DCPS does system wide.   Meanwhile, Banneker's average SAT scores are below the national average.

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