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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP but I will respond to you 9:20 - if you were the one who posted suggesting that the number of G&T kids was not sufficient to warrant meaningful G&T programs, then you are patently wrong.  80 per grade is more than enough.  Even 40 per grade would be more than enough.  Your objections are baffling.  Evidently you don't seem to understand that many of us (particularly those of us in DC) are not so lucky as you to have ready access to those programs, and also might not be so well off as to be able to afford a $500k home in the burbs to get access to the programs that you evidently have access to.  You are free to be as frustrated as you like but your frustration is purely a function of your own incapacity to understand the situations that many others here are in.[/quote]

Uh, the question was not whether 5 or 80 or 800 kids, considered in isolation, is "enough." It's whether that number of kids justifies addressing all the DC political issues and/or spending probably millions on new facilities, new teachers. Most of the shuttered DC schools are now DMVs and clinics and such so even if you took the school facilities back you'd have to spend $$$ to relocate the DMVs. Also, taking 1-2 gifted kids from a class in each school won't free up teachers from the home schools, so you'd have to hire new teachers. That's the issue (and your incapacity to understand).  Basic math.[/quote]

NP here.  You are misinformed about the current state of DCPS properties.  The vast majority of the buildings, including those that have undergone recent renovations are sitting empty.[/quote]

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