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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The question is… what can be negotiated with the principal? If I can get several families to commit to staying at our school (5 families would represent as many as half of the very highest scoring kids), would that provide us any leverage? E.g., we take our kids out of the running for CES, so you’ll keep our high-scoring students, and in return, you provide us with additional enrichment[/quote]

This isn't going to work. MCPS is going to remove 5 kids from the school no matter what, because they want to keep representation at the regional CES programs reasonably balanced. So even if it isn't YOUR 5 kids, it's going to be the 5 kids whose parents agree to send them.

More to the point, if you truly believe that the G/T programs as currently set up are racist/classist in origin and in execution (they are), then you need to be willing to pull your child out of the running without any promises of extra attention. PP was kind of blunt, but also correct. Your 99 percenter is going to be fine - lots of kids go and do not go to the CES program for a laundry list of reasons and they all end up in the same place. So, if sending your child to a pull-out program is not a good fit for your personal values, then you have that option, but you can't use it to leverage even more advantages for kids who already have quite a few. [/quote]

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