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But bright, hard-working kids deserve an education too.  DCPS could easily serve them if they wanted—through tracking—they just find it more politically feasible to solve the achievement gap by bringing down the top.

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[quote=Anonymous]Lol, kids seeking challenge are not the easiest kind of kids. If they were, they wouldn't not be routinely failed in public education everywhere.[/quote]

Yes, to both of these.  My supposedly "easy to educate" kids were not educated very much when they were in public schools.  Mostly, the teachers knew they would pass any tests, and then ignored them or put them on awful computer programs, like Dreambox or ST Math.  The plan for bright kids shouldn't be to ignore them and more or less use their per student allotment to fund other children in the room, rather than actually trying to teach the bright kids at their level.

BASIS has been a godsend for my kids. [/quote]

100 percent this.   The fact that we even call the academically inclined well behaved kids “easy to educate” is part of the problem.  In fact, they are easy to ignore because their test scores will always be “fine” and “fine” is good enough for most dcps schools outside jklm.  Basis is one of the few places that even tries to educate these kids.  I wish the public schools did a better job with these students but given today’s realities, I’m glad that basis is an option for some.   [/quote]

this is the sound of the world’s tiniest violin playing for your academically inclined well behaved kids. seriously. [/quote]

And your opinion and attitude is why DCPS sucks and loses so many educated families who have options.  This in turn is a loss for all kids but especially the ones left behind who don’t have options with families who don’t have resources to help the school.[/quote]

yes of course. making sure Basis meets its legal obligations is ruining DCPS. [/quote]

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