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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]'Best practices' ?

The point was that some children might need more than just 'best practices'. Like for example, free laundry service at school if you live in a shelter and your mum can not get you clean clothes as needed.

No wonder there is resistance to pull-outs...it's like asking for cosmetic surgery at the ER.[/quote]

No way, pull-outs are more like asking for an ER treating specific problems that crop up all the time, precisely the ones you need for your children to heal.

Without pull-outs in a diverse school, many upper grades high SES kids aren't going to be challenged.  I can't count the number of neighborhood families I've talked to over the years who've left Watkins, and DCPS, mainly for lack of pull-out groups and other forms of ability grouping (e.g. grouping the kids who score advanced on the DC-CAS in the same classes, which DCPS almost never does) in grades 3-5.

The fact that poor kids need more than "best practices" schools can provide is neither here nor there on the issue of pull-outs.  I that hope a new generation of L-T neighborhood parents in the lower grades works with the principal to plan ahead for pull-outs.  If they have to raise money to hire a math tutor to provide advanced instruction from 3rd grade, like the Brent parents did, they should get going ASAP. [/quote]

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