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[quote=Anonymous]The focus on the achievement gap has not worked.  It is critical to challenge parents and students as early as possible to achieve basic reading and math comprehension.  No child should be promoted until true competency/mastery at grade level has been demonstrated.  To do otherwise is to cheat the child.  We need an honest discussion with parents, teachers and students about their talents, ambitions, objectives and willingness to apply themselves to educational goals - this should be ongoing and honest.  Not all students will go to the Ivies or even to college - we must end the fiction that all students want or can achieve in this particular skill - i.e. pursuit of intellectual knowledge.  We also must create an ethic that respects and rewards effort, honesty, and commitment - so that those children who choose to be laborers or clerks or mechanics or musicians or teachers etc. learn to be good workers and honest citizens and contribute and be respected for their contributions.  We must avoid wasting money and resources where they are not effective - whether that is AAP or SpecEd or the music program etc.  An honest evaluation of each student and their needs and abilities will help allocate resources to where they have the highest value.  This will make our community stronger, more equitable and more just.  We recently renamed JEB Stuart to Justice - I define justice as the equal access to, and equal application of the law.  This doesn't mean that every outcome will be the same.  It means that every child will have access to the resources that they can make productive use of.[/quote]

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