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[quote=Anonymous]Focusing on artificially closing the achievement gap doesn't help anyone. It does little to nothing for students that are underperforming and sets a limit on students capable of achieving beyond the low bar. This attitude has basically wrecked MCPS with the god awful 2.0 and gutting of acceleration. This has had a negative impact on real estate value further out from the inner circle where incomes are high enough for private school or paying for after school supplemental education. A return to allowing all groups to progress is much needed! You can't improve or maintain a school system if you are constantly alienating and underserving the higher performers. They'll just leave and go elsewhere (Virginia, Howard) and the system will have even more need which is also what is happening now.

The focus should be on all groups making progress and using programs outside of school to address the "opportunity gap". The underperforming kids are at a disadvantage because they don't have resources outside of school. Higher quality subsidized after, before, and  year round summer/spring/winter break  programs with tutoring would do far more for these groups than dumbing down the in school education so it appears that everybody is a magic P or inflated C. [/quote]

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