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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the mismatch, as I see it.  Upper-class, well-educated DC is a class unto itself, a hypereducated cohort chock-full of National Merit Scholars, 1600 (old) SAT-ers, valedictorians, Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Ivy Ph.D.'s, etc., and there has been shown to be a connection between children's educational outcomes and parents' outcomes. Many of us came out of suburban school systems

Then we put our kids in the local school system, where nothing is directed at the kids who - I'm probably not phrasing this well - have accelerated academic needs (and I'm not just talking kids of tiger moms) like the kid who reads at 4th grade level in Kindergarten, the 5th grader who already knows how to code so is clearly ready for Algebra, etc.

DCPS is in this life and death struggle with how intergenerational poverty and racism have shackled some kids to the ground, so has no very limited focus on kids who are already taking off.

And we, the hypereducated and successful are like-is there a way to make this system work for our kids? Is what they're learning going to help them that Intel Science Talent Search contest or are they in classes where one kid in 10 even knows what the teacher is covering? Are we crazy?

By contrast, the suburban school systems are full of places where you can get accelerated math, honors programs of all sorts... you just have to pay the price for educational access, i.e., move into the neighborhood and struggle through a clusterfork of a commute to your dual-earner jobs to afford it.

I mean, that's it, right?[/quote]

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