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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. To the poster who thinks im trying to pick a fight, trust me Im not. I am truly curious why this idea has not gained more steam with DCPS management.   there are so many driven and well organized parents in DCPS who put so much effort into starting Charters, enrichment programs or saving their local under performing school that it surprises me that a group hasn't formed to demand test-in advanced classes, for younger kids.    I grew up in another state and was in a test-in gifted and talented program starting in third grade.   It was great and I am glad I had the opportunity and challenges that came with it.  By high school, everyone was more leveled at in some courses more than others.    I know a few students in DCPS who have been allowed to skip a grade but that to me is not a good long term solution for kids.    I think the schools in ward 1 are surrounded by some of the most educated parents in the City and its quickly gentrifying but so many of the DCPS schools do not reflect this at all.   [b]My kid is still a couple of years from DCPS[/b] so I am really trying to understand this issue.    It just doesnt make much sense to me to have a group of third graders in one class where half are reading, barely, at kindergarten level and the rest are reading at a fifth grade level. Unless the expectation is that the more advanced kids are supposed to tutor the others.  Which is really screwed up too. [/quote]

There we go, part of the problem with the debate is of course that those clamoring for G&T programs do so because they think that all of the so many "driven parents" (including them of course) have gifted children. Doesn't surprise me that OP doesn't even have school age children yet. How does he/she know his/hers are gifted?! If these are the parents pestering DCPS for G&T programs, then let's not be surprised that DCPS rolls its eyes saying "here we go again" because all it ends up being is "I want my child to be enrolled with 'like' children". God forbid that these G&T children be poor and/or black.

So, let me rephrase: 
Question: "Why don't we have a G&T program?"
Answer: "Because the wrong people are asking for it for the wrong reasons."

Meanwhile, I, who may well have a truly talented child in DCPS, I can but distance myself from the "stroller brigade" (not my word choice) whose requests and claims are too often pitifully uninformed.

Fortunately, we've found DCPS well capable of addressing our child's needs. [b]And, no, I won't share in what supposedly (I quote) "parallel universe" with its "bs enrichment" we've made it happen. Go do your own homework.[/b][/quote]

NP here.  Out of curiosity, why are you such a bitch?[/quote]

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