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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If Montgomery County allowed a segregated classroom of students who tested as gifted in the home school, it would take them out of the classrooms with kids who are struggling academically and could benefit from learning alongside their more advanced peers. The county has a stated goal of bringing every student up to the level of proficiency. That is clearly a higher priority. [/quote]

There is nothing in the MCPS model that allows an advanced student to help a struggling student. Its a teacher centric model. The kids struggling just see that others can do something that they can't, they get no benefit other than a hit to self esteem. The only person in the room that benefits from the way MCPS is doing this is the teacher. She gets a class where at least 30% of the students require no instruction and hands her positive test scores. She just has to discipline them to stay in their seats. She only has to teach the rest of the class.

Actually MCPS benefits because they can increase the class size since, 30% of the room is just occupying space. [/quote]

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