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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Staff salaries are the same from school to school. Facilities are obviously in a wide range of conditions across the county, and there are examples of run-down schools in wealthier areas and brand-new schools in less wealthy areas, and vice versa.[/quote]

Sadly the academic programs in these schools widely differ as well which is what concerns to most parents.[/quote]

THe main thing I've noticed so far is many of these kids get math acceleration at an early age. I remember reading rising 6th graders who had scored 250+ on their MAP-M are often placed in Algebra in 6th.  I remember one of my kids managed to score higher in 3rd grade when they were 8 on the exact same test but since we were at a DCC school they were forced to sit through compacted math which was a snoozefest for them. I even discussed this with the principal of our school but they said there was nothing they could do about it. I guess it bothers me that kids born on the other side of the tracks are offered these opportunities while this is denied them.[/quote]

Your resentment is misplaced. There are one or two schools in one W cluster that does this and one less wealthy cluster that does it. All the other schools which are wealthy or poor do not allow this ever. Our DC's school had several kids like this and all took the regular accelerated math track and when we went to MS it was the same. There was absolutely no one accelerated beyond the regular track. Give me a break. You don't know anything.
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