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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When DCPS starts tracking, test in classes, starts gifted programming in 3rd grade like every jurisdiction around us, most parents are not going to choose their local school. [/quote]

Completely agree[/quote]

It's never happening, and I'm not sure how big a deal that is.  Parents at the highest-performing DCPS schools already enjoy advantages helping "gifted kids" that the suburbs lack.  This is because DC PTAs raise far for money per capital that counterparts in the burbs, and spend it far more freely. Suburban PTA are not permitted to hire staff.  DC PTA are permitted, and often do so.

My child's 3rd grade class has 22 students and two full-time instructions, one paid for by the PTA (which raised more than 400K this year). Compare that to ES classes of up to 30 students with one instructor in some of the MD and VA burbs.  While those jurisdictions technically provided gifted services, my child effectively receives them by virtue of the fact that two excellent instructors are in her classroom.  She gets pulled out for math and ELA on the PTA dime because she works 1-2 years ahead of grade level.  I'm not complaining, formal GT services or no GT services.[/quote]

That doesn’t happen everywhere. You are in a bubble over there WOTP. Our PTA uses funding to help struggling students. In NYC they told the PTAs they can’t use $ to hire classroom aides.[/quote]

We are in no bubble: our DCPS school is EotP.  Our parents work hard to raise the money year in and year out. The extra hands in the school keep us in our school and neighborhood.  Beats moving.  I dearly wish that there were GT services in DCPS, but things aren't nearly as black and white where GT goes as posters paint the picture.[/quote]

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