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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Advisory Committee member here: we shredded this draft recommendation to pieces. First, we don’t want any language about “some committee members” because we want to operate as a team and present consensus. 
Second, we challenged that “gifted and talented” may not be the buzzword they meant and pushed for a more accurate description of the type of programs DME wants to pursue. [/quote]

No matter what you call it, adding more advanced options to schools where the vast majority of kids aren't at grade level without making those options test-in has been tried already and has not made those schools more attractive.

The lower-income parents EOTR who go to the no excuses charters want higher expectations and behavioral standards, which this doesn't give them. The UMC families want actually more rigorous academic options and on-grade-level peer groups. No one is going to go to Anacostia HS because it adds more AP classes when the students already aren't passing the ones that exist now. [/quote]

+100

Well stated.  AP classes by name only is the same thing as an open enrollment gifted and talented program.[/quote]

+1.  The overwhelming majority of kids at Anacostia HS are way below grade level.

How exactly is a G & T program going to help them??  What you need is remedial classes, after school tutoring, maybe year round schools to try to bring these kids up.  Maybe they can’t get up to grade level but at least wont be so far below.

You want a real G & T program in Anacostia high school?  Then you need to start a real G & T program at the elementary schools that feed into Anacostia and on up the chain.

Open enrollment G & T is basically just a name DCPS wants to have at these very poorly performing HS to try to attract families but it’s obvious the poor strategy and something in name only.[/quote]

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