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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I take from this thread is that DCUM thinks that diversity is not at all important and we should be carving up school districts on property values alone.[/quote]

diversity is great until your kid is zoned for a school with a 50%+ FARMS rate. [/quote]
This.  Some schools shouldn’t bear the brunt of certain populations.  [/quote]

But it is compounded by everyone thinking their child is "gifted" and needs to be a center.  FCPS has lowed the gifted standard to basically allow slightly above average kids into the program.  They bus them out of these schools and the schools performs dreadfully because the only kids not "gifted" are the ones that don't speak English.  It is segregation at every level.

The gifted program originally pulled kids with high IQs out to give them immensely challenging projects and a lot more work to do.  That is not the case.  Parents game the system, there are practice tests, and honestly most of these kids are not gifted. And when you have all children from a family gifted that shows you that the program is BS.  We have entire families going to these programs.[/quote]

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