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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think DCPS major strategy to close the achievement gap is to cap the growth of the top kids. They want to limit any options that will help advanced kids as that will just increase the gap between top and bottom. Two ways to close a gap - push down the top or raise up the bottom. They are not competent enough to do much with the kids who really need intervention so they want to limit the potential of the highest achieving kids.[/quote]

THIS.  No one has been able to close the achievement gap no matter how much money we throw out per student (BTW DC is one of the highest per student).

So you “close” it by dumbing down the curriculum so the higher achieving students are not challenged to their fullest ability.  You also just pass students no matter the truancy rate or just push them thru each year without competency to get an artificially high graduation rate. We all know about the scandal last year in DC about that.  PARCC scores came out for Ballou and single digits in competency.  I don’t see how all those students should graduate.  The diploma is useless.

Also good point from a poster about the kid who got A’s in pre-calculus at Coolidge and was placed in remedial math.  Dumb down the curriculum, don’t provide tracking, etc.. and this is what you get.  Anyone who thinks the kid who got A’s in precalculus at Coolidge is doing the same challenging work and performing at the same level as someone who took pre-calcullus at the best pyramid in Bethesda is living in la, la land.

It all comes out in college people.  You either sink or swim when you compete in a bigger arena.  Your success is in large part determined by the rigor of your high school curriculum.  Google top kids in poor urban schools and you will see a ton of articles about how they struggle in college with not knowing as much as other students, not being able to think as critically, etc...

Those who advocate mixed academic abilities in classes, you go for it and good luck.  Actions speak louder than words.  For the rest of us who know better, we will go private or move out of the city.  And it will be a significant percentage of households.  Then see how really abysmal the PARCC scores are for DCPS...[/quote]

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