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Okay, in your little world of Montgomery Count magnets I can see how you believe that gifted kids needs are being met. Because in your little world they are. But the world is much bigger than the HG gifted centers, Eastern & TP middle schools and Blair highschool. About 4 pages ago I posted a link to a research paper which was funded by the Jarvitz grant that was a collaboration of 3 Universities. This paper explains a lot about the educational crisis in this country.

Also, do you see what I've bolded? This is the problem. THIS IS THE PROBLEM. All the kids are high SES because there is no funding to seek out, identify, & enrich gifted kids that are anything other than high SES.

Read some of the other information that I've posted and you will expand your world a little bit. [/quote]

MoCo mom here.  I'll ignore your tone.  You clearly know nothing about MoCo and the energy they put into recruiting low-income and minority kids for these magnets.  This is Weast's big thing.  And yet my kids still end up in classes with kids of university professors, NIH research scientists, and others like this.  Yes, lots of non-white faces.  But the story of the kid from the low-SES family is definitely the exception, not the rule.

And do you think this will change if you shake your magic wand?  That maybe tomorrow all the effort MoCo puts into recruiting low-SES kids will suddenly, mysteriously, result in more low-SES kids in the magnets? That high-SES parents who know how to work the system, how to appeal magnet decisions, will stop doing this?  That low-SES families will figure out how to work the system?  That the answer to getting kids to succeed on the magnet tests when they are 10 lies in spending more money on recruiting low-SES kids, instead of providing better educations to them in grades K-5?[/quote]

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