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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just curious why you think it's the responsibility of a public school to provide a more challenging curriculum for advanced kids? Really, that's not what public education does. If that's what you desire, you should pay for it and go private. Because what you're asking for usually comes at the expense of meeting the basic needs of all students. [/quote]

Your position does NOT accurately represent what "pubic education does."  How dare you suggest that tax-payers must abandon public education (and all of the positive things it has to offer) and opt for private in order to educate an advanced kid.  You are suggesting that only affluent parents (they type that can afford $40k per year) might have an advanced child.  How dare you!  There are plenty of advanced children in this county.  They deserve an adequate education regardless of their parents economic situation.  There are plenty of smart children from middle, lower and poor families in this county.  They are all getting screwed over by 2.0 just like the affluent kids are.  Ridiculous that you can't see this.

Furthermore, there are plenty of 3rd graders who have been accelerated for two years.  Yet this year, they hit the brick wall of 2.0.  It was the public school system that accelerated them and it is unconscionable for that same system to suddenly tell them to repeat work they have already mastered (with no path at all for future acceleration).

Your vision of public education is a morass of mediocrity.  Sounds like you will support 2.0 very well.  Enjoy "aiming for proficient."  [/quote]

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