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[quote=Anonymous]Here is an easy solution.  Test all the kids in title 1 schools in 1st grade and those who do well, track them into a separate classroom or school.

I agree with the poster who says that there is a culture in low income black schools where the nerds or smart kids are looked down upon and made fun of.  Or they are bullied. It’s not cool to be smart.

Our black receptionist at my last job lived in ward 7 with a smart daughter.  The stories she would tell me of the kids bullying her daughter, because she was smart.  She taught her daughter to be tough and fight back with words.  She ended up at School Without Walls, and her mom changed offices so she could take her daughter to school although it meant a much tougher commute.

These are the kids who get lost in the low achieving, low expectations, and not cool to be smart culture in title 1 schools.  Her mom saw the potential in her daughter and saw the opportunities in that potential.  She was lucky.  Some families don’t see that, and some smart kids are not so lucky.  They get lost in low achieving system and never rise up to the potential that they have.[/quote]

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