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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh grow up, the poor and lazy reasoning comes from DCPS in pretending that differentiation within the classroom by excellent teachers is all that's needed to market L-T, and dozens of other minimally integrated schools like it around the city, to most in-boundary high SES families.  They won't budge from this policy stance, even as DC welcomes hordes of high SES families year after year.

When Maury got a group of in-boundary kids, mostly white and high SES, to a testing grade this past school year, for the first time reading scores jumped 29 points (without allegations of cheating, since the reason for the score hike was as plain as day).  If L-T offered a test-in GT program or at least paid for serious pullout instruction from grade 1 (with DCPS funding since the L-T PTA can't afford to hire staff yet, unlike at Maury and Brent), school quality wouldn't be the issue.  Everybody knows what it is:  lack of taking the achievement gap bull by the horns.  [/quote]

I'm sorry, after participating in 8 zillion of these conversations, when people start talking "test-in GT" or "serious pullouts," what I hear is "segregation with the school."

Differentiation by excellent teachers is absolutely enough to provide a strong education to kids at various levels of achievement. If it isn't enough to market LT (or similar schools), that's because some people care less about educational achievement than they do making sure their child is sheltered from the perceived bad influence of low-SES AA kids.

Sorry, I usually try to be more temperate in my responses on this forum, but I am so freakin' tired of racism clothed in self-righteousness.[/quote]

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