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Either you treat the children in the schools like students who shoul all get a chance to excel at all levels or you treat them like social work cases and only focus on triage. DCPS is in triage mode.[/quote]

Well put.  I would add that the public schools (charters included) do not have the luxury of weeding out the more difficult cases as the private schools do. On some level, they have little choice but to deal with more challenging students and much of their baggage.  The public schools will struggle to retain families beyond ES as the families with little to no baggage do not want their kids held back in order for their school to shoulder the weight of those social work cases

My urban public school had differentiated learning.  Some kids got picked on by kids who shared the school if not the same classrooms, but in the classroom the advanced kids were not burdened by slower learners or dicipline cases.  The mainstream tracts were also appropriately paced for the abilities of the students, and kids who bahaved appropriately and could handle the work were slotted according to their abilities.[/quote]

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