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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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).

Signed,
Successful product of NYC public schools [/quote]

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

[b]Because DCPS is scared of what those classes will look like racially[/b].  [/quote]

+1.  NP.  It doesn't have to be that way.  When I was a kid in the 70s, Hunter College High School took it upon itself to implement tutoring programs with respect to the entry exam for promising students from disadvantaged neighborhoods.  It worked, the student body 'looked like' the City at large.  [/quote]

I went to Hunter in the 80s and 90s![/quote]

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