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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Come on, the "many countries where test outcomes are better than in the US" treat their public school educators and poor children better than this country does, a whole lot better.  Our teachers are made responsible for addressing a great many societal ills, including multi-generational poverty.

I wouldn't mind having a gaggle of poor kids in my child's academic classes in an EotP DCPS if the school could and would employ the staff to keep needy kids from sucking up a huge amount of the teacher's time and energy, to my bright advanced learner's detriment.  But my in-boundary program doesn't have the resources, and school system leaders don't seem to care a whit about how to best serve academically advanced gentrifers' children.  What happens is that my kid becomes more bored in class with every passing year, while I hire more tutors, play the charter lottery, and start checking out suburban real estate.

What about my kid's rights as a "high-achieving peer" to benefit from appropriate instruction?  What about my rights as a taxpayer to see my children challenged in public school?[/quote]

DCPS doesn’t care about high achieving kids being challenged.  They are left to their own while the teacher spends most of the time dealing with the kids at the bottom in addition to dealing with behavior issues.  This becomes much more obvious as you go higher up in grades and why many UMC parents bail by 3rd, 4th grade if not sooner.
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