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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC's poor don't need gifted and talented programs. They need to learn enough to not repeat 9th grade academy or drop out.

[b]G&T isn't for them[/b]. It's for us, me and you, and the rest of the children of graduate degree holders.

As much as we love love love the rhetoric of identifying geniuses blooming among the families doing poorly in DC, it's not a statistical reality.[/quote]

Not true. How did the mostly poor kids at Center City Congress Height’s score among BASIS and Latin for 8th grade math? The school put them in advanced coursework. The greatest failure is that we don’t give poor kids higher level work early enough and sometimes never at all. I say this as someone who has helped multiple of those poor kids you dismiss get to Ivy League schools.

Gifted and Talented isn’t about all. It’s about some. Deciding income is the measure or gateway for some is flat out wrong. [/quote]

+1. The option shouldn’t be that rich kids get to supplement what DCPS doesn’t provide and poor bright kids go without.

The option should be that poor bright kids get to be lifted up with the help of DCPS. This may mean adding services for rich kid too. Nothing wrong with poor and rich kids being in the same, strong G&T programs.[/quote]

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