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[quote=Anonymous]I have a very advanced 5th grader.  He scored in the 95-98 percentile in both ELA and math for his school, and he is at a ward 3 school with some of the best test scores in the city.  (So I’m other words, city-wide and nation-wide he is 99+}. Plenty of kids at his school scoring 5s on ELA and math.  He receives advanced writing instruction and attends math competitions (these are outside activities that we pay for).  No teacher has ever offered to put him into any sort of advanced group at school.  What they are teaching is well below his level but no one has ever offered him more.  He is actually fine with it- he gets his work done quickly and can spend the rest of his time doing fun free time stuff at school.  We don’t complain because he is happy at school and being educated elsewhere. He has tons of friends and the teachers like him.  We know some kids who are behind get pulled out but if they were pulling anyone out for being advanced it would be my kid and i can attest that it is not happening.

Bottom line.  If your kid is advanced don’t expect dcps to meet them there.  They are vehemently against gifted programs. That is no secret.  So don’t expect teachers to create mini gifted programs in their own classrooms.  It is not happening.  Also 100 percent agree that if you want to advocate for something, advocate for your kid and his specific needs, not a general policy change.  Because the latter isn’t happening either. You might have success with the former if you are lucky.   Title 1 might be different - don’t have first hand experience with that.  But I wonder whether the “normal” education in ward 3 is still better than “accelerated” (which is possibly/likely nothing more than grade level) at title 1. [/quote]

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