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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mantra on DCUM that APS teaches to the "lowest common denominator" is bullshit.  The fact is, the APS elementary schools to which DCUM posters send their children are full of advantaged kids with high achieving and striving parents who don't need differentiation.  Just look at the average test scores for these schools.

Every parent on DCUM thinks their child is the Christ Child and that the public schools--working with many, many kids and with limited budgets--owe it to them to take their kids away from the riff raff and provide them personally with a singularly gilded education.  Nope, it doesn't work that way.[/quote]

I agree with this. I have no idea why people say APS teaches to the lowest common denominator. It's just not true. I had two high achieving kids go through APS. Both were on the highest math track, both took multiple advanced classes (AP/DE) and were appropriately challenged. They had lots of peers with them at their level, so it's not like they were a one off. There are a lot of really smart kids in APS with involved invested parents. Also college outcomes for my kids and their friends and peers in APS were excellent. [/quote]

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