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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The crazy thing about this discussion is that most of you demanding it wouldn't have a kid test into one of these programs. Everyone here thinks their snowflake is special but reality is they may not be. Reading a grade level above does not make a kid gifted. Queue the hundreds of parents that had their DC tested when considering private in 3,2,1.....[/quote]

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again, its not about being gifted. In DC you kid looks gifted just by being at grade level. I have seen the test scores.  I swear some of these schools can't even call themselves schools when 0% are college ready??   I don't know if my "snowflake" is gifted but she is at or on above grade level and bottom line is I think its a waste of her school time to be a in a class where 2/3 of her peers are BELOW (sometimes by two grades). regardless of race.  There are plenty of shitty white schools in the burbs I wouldn't put her in either with similar test scores.   Lets get rid of grades and just put kids in groupings based on subject and mastery of subject.   Using the term gifted might be the wrong word.  Tragic and significant achievement gaps are real and no kid who can do the work should be forced to just do more busy work while the teacher helps the kids who still can't read in 4th grade. thats not SEM, thats not differentiation, thats not advanced. Thats politicking at its worst from DCPS.  [/quote]

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