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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don't need to hire extra teachers - they need to assign existing teachers to teach more advanced work and organize the student schedules that way.

They do need a decent sized cohort to make it feasible. If the overall enrollment grows more will be hired. But the teachers' certifications and skills would enable them to do it already.[/quote]

DCPS's mantra (with several schools) has always been that they can't identify advanced students until they enter 6th grade and are then tested for their ability; and then, even if they identify some advanced students after they've entered 6th grade, they must come up with extra money in the budget to hire new teachers to teach them (and only IF there are enough students they've identified to compose a class).  And, by that time, any students they identified in 6th grade are now in 7th grade.

What the poster here is saying is that existing schools don't need to hire extra teachers in order to teach advanced kids, the schools just need to move their plans around a bit.  Maybe that's true.  But the main consideration for us is DCPS is not being honest about how simple it would be to create space for advanced classes.[/quote]

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