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Reply to "options for an academically advanced elem kid in down county Montgomery"
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[quote=Anonymous]Not everyone agrees, but there's a lot of ideological push behind the idea. People feel that this unfairly marginalizes children from low SES homes/ minority children, who are less likely to have access to higher level material and therefore are tracked into lower performance. I am really torn about this. I think public schools have a public-interest role in leveling the playing field and making sure kids from low SES homes have a fair chance at accelerating, and that all kids deserve enriched material. However, I'm not sure that I'm willing to use my own child as a tool for societal goals if it means she's denied the challenging material that she is ready for. And I don't think it's fair to teachers to ask them to teach five or six levels in one classroom -- I don't think it's possible and I believe the higher level kids will suffer.[/quote]
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