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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And Brookland didn't allow such tracking?  I can see why that would be an issue. Thanks for the clarification.[/quote]

"allow" isn't really the right word.

DCPS has tended to do this when there's a critical mass of students who need it - and again then it is only for one subject. Brookland does have students on differeing levels for math.

What Brookland didn't do was guarantee there would be an honors English class, for example, before they opened their doors and saw who was enrolled. At hardy they have all students mixed for the first couple of weeks and then adjust some as needed.

The gentrifier parents hung on the lack of a guarantee as an indication that there would never be a more advanced class, which wasn't necessarily the case. They also really wanted advanced language options, or an IB program -- something that signals to parents that the school will be suitable for their high achieving kids and would allow them to not be in all classes with the rest of the students.[/quote]

Really. Well, in any case, no, tracking is not uniformly dismissed by "education experts". It does go in and out of fashion. As for Brookland, whatever the communication was with the community, it has ended up an abject failure, so, perhaps there should have been more listening to what "gentrifiers" wanted. But this circular debate is in almost every thread, and it's pretty tiresome.[/quote]

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