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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd welcome test-in programs and honors programs like in NYC.  We don't need programs for gifted kids.  We do need programs for bright kids.

My child is very bright but likely not genuinely gifted.  She was, however, reading FOUR grade levels above many other kids in her Hill inbound elementary -- in FIRST grade.  No way will I send her to a middle school where most peers are years behind her, unless there's an honors class (which there will likely not be).  I'll sell my home before then (and we've been on the Hill over 15 years).

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Successful product of NYC public schools [/quote]

+1. Why, oh why, can't DC have real Hunter/Stuy/Bronx Sci/Brooklyn Tech equivalents?:([/quote]

Indeed, I graduated from one of the test-in NYC schools you cite.  But before that I attended my rather average, large local middle school which served loads of kids from poor backgrounds.  However, the school had a couple of "special progress" classrooms which taught more  advanced class work (and these served kids of all races and classes).  DCPS won't do this, however.

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