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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]uh huh. sounds like your kid was a problem, not a solution[/quote]

Now now, Every school isn't right for every child.[/quote]

OK, sure, so which DCPC is right for an advanced learner (particularly good at math)?  Where's the GT program for the gifted kids?  Where's the test-in GT program  like in New York City?

We wish we'd bought in the Brent or Maury Districts.   Perhaps the greater high-SES populations at those schools would have kept us from private tuition to stay in the city.  We can't keep moving our kid around in search of a public school solution.
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G&T?  Test-in?  These are wholly alien concepts to DCPS and you will hear a whole host of outraged exceptions dare you even speak of such things.

But, if you do indeed have a math-talented child, currently the best bet is BASIS, given they are the most well-equipped for accommodating truly math-talented children, i.e. Algebra in 5th grade, Calculus by 8th grade and well beyond (impossible in any other school in the district or burbs).

But again, one dare not even speak of such things; according to some here, there is no such thing as children capable of or ever needing such learning (despite the fact that there already are many kids enrolled in accelerated math outside of DCPS and succeeding at it, not to mention, that many other industrialized nations are ahead of where DCPS is on math as the norm, as opposed to the exception.)[/quote]

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