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2. Public schools are required to meet this need by law [/quote]

Really? I think they are obliged to provide a high school education but not necessarily one with advanced college level STEM.[/quote]

If kids go in at the level of advanced college STEM, then not having that means that they're effectively not being provided with an education during their high school years.  Maybe it would  just look like they are and maybe they're effectively home-schooling because they aren't getting anything from the school.  It's wrong to dismiss the legal aspect out-of-hand.[/quote]

No it's not wrong to dismiss the legal aspect out of hand.  Many kids identified as gifted don't get into TJ and are at their base school with no additional resources other than AP and IB classes.  They can't sue the FCPS because they are only provided with AP,  IB  or honors classes.  When the kids who end up at TJ were in AAP in MS and four years ahead, they couldn't sue to be taught at their level.  I will easily dismiss the argument FCPS has provide kids with advanced college level STEM classes in order to meet the legal requirements.  [/quote]

I'm speaking to the general trend of school systems believing that they don't need to serve advanced kids because they can tough it out and take care of themselves, or whatever.  A school like TJ which has advanced STEM classes is one way to fill the need.  You're right, though, that not everyone who's advanced gets to go to TJ, or is even in a high enough grade to go to TJ.  Nevertheless, if the school system were to do the complete opposite, namely abandon the plight of advanced students altogether, starting from TJ and extending towards advanced academics in base schools, etc, then it wouldn't be serving the needs of advanced students at all.  In that story, TJ would be the one serving as the model which encourages others in the system to keep their standards up. If the school system completely abandons the notion of advanced students, then yes, I still do believe that the legal aspects do come into play, because at that point one can sue on the grounds that the school system, as a whole, is not making any attempt to serve an entire range of students..[/quote]

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