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[quote=Anonymous]not trying to turn this into a debate about which kids are gifted etc but DC definitely fails kids who really could do more rigourus work.  Why would they help them it would just make the achievement gap that much wider and its a canyon right now.  the focus is to bring the slower kids at least to grade level.  I am from NC and I never realized how much they did for advanced kids. We had the test in GT classes but since I left the city I lived in now has a special school for those kids who truly are the 1% gifted (like teaching themselves trig in 5th grade kind of thing).  I have friend who's daughter is in there and she is thriving. She really struggled socially in GT and now is with her peers< I think its tiny, like classes of 10-12.Again this is truly for the super gifted. NC also has a nationally recognized PUBLIC boarding school for math and science kids in HS. I had a friend end up there by 10th grade,    Granted, NC is screwing over its general public education which used to be great but I took for granted that these things existed elsewhere and they don;t but they should.  Its mind boggling to me in a city full of type A, educated and demanding parents that we don;t have that in DC. I know its all driven by political correctness and worry that such a program would skew so heavily white.  the effort to be 100% inclusive means a lot of parents let their kids get screwed over. Makes no sense [/quote]

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