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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Aps does track kids, especially in higher poverty schools. Go look at schools like campbell and barcroft. Interesting how most of the wealthier kids are in the gifted cluster, and most of those kids are in one class. Token few are in other clases, but move to the cluster class for subjects like math. I was shocked to see this at both schools, but especially campbell. Gifted kids got a very different education.

2. Busing doesn’t work. I grew up in a city that bused kids to and from high poverty areas. All it did was create schools within schools and the poor kids didn’t do any better in the wealthier school. School busing failed. Lots of scholarship on that topic as it was big in the 70s.

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That’s how the gifted cluster model works (identifying historically underepresented groups is an issue) many grade levels have a gifted math cluster class and a gifted in multiple areas cluster classroom. If the cohort is too small or too large some kids may move for a subject. [/quote]

I know that is the model. And it results in a school where most white kids were in the gifted cluster. By most, I meant there was literally one or at most two white kids in then non gifted cluster. It was stark-extremely segregated. Other parents noticed too and some were not thrilled by it. School was supposedly celebrated as “diverse” but that did not exist in the classroom.[/quote]

On a related note, Duran wrote this in yesterday’s update:

[i]Program of Studies and Gifted Services Update: Next Tue, Dec. 14, we are holding a work session on the Program of Studies and Gifted Services. I encourage families interested in these topics to tune in. As part of our commitment to equity and ensuring we are serving the needs of all students, I will share recommended changes for Gifted Services that will benefit our students.  [/i][/quote]

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