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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Testing in is segregation by another name.  I think that schools need to cater to the neighborhood population, whatever that may be, both advanced learners and not.  Otherwise, we're going to be in the absurd situation (like in NYC) where you have to pay for a test prep coach for your FOUR YEAR OLD.  [/quote]

You don't have to pay for the test prep -it's no longer hard to come by for free.

Even paying for test prep doesn't sound nearly as bad to me as the absurd situation we're in, where the city's population is 40% white while the public high school population is 2% white.  At least NYC supports a public school population that looks something like city demographics right through 12th grade.  I attended Stuyvesant and it wasn't a segregated school - we had all kinds of kids, all kinds of kids coming out of full-fledged gifted and talented ES and MS programs. Most of the kids weren't white, they were Asian, from low-income or lower-middle-class backgrounds.  They worked their tales off, supported by education hungry families, and deserved to be there.

As long as DC insists on tossing the most academic kids into classes with the least academic kids right through middle school, forget it.  Most of those who can will continue to vote with their feet.  Even open enrollment AP classes at SWW,Wilson, Banneker etc. don't work very well. Few of those kids get into top colleges mainly because their SAT and AP test scores are too low, and they don't take enough honors classes.

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