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I live in the red zone and my kids attend a school with a high FARMS rate.  My school's test scores were improving each year under the old system and yes, I think it was serving exceptional and less-exceptional kids equally well.  Both groups are entitled to a good education.

So no, I will not move.  I will insist that the system I fund and support be as good as it can be.  I will continue to object to mediocrity for as long as I have kids in this system.[/quote]

Well, Starr clearly disagrees that the old system was serving all of them well. I found this recent article http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2012/The-Gifted-Left-Behind/index.php?cparticle=4&siarticle=3#artanc  in which he is quoted as saying “the remediation issue is larger than the acceleration issue. We must attend to all of it—and I must be accountable for attending to all of it.” In other words, [b]the need for improvement among the children at the bottom is greater than the need for acceleration among the children at the top[/b].[/quote]

This is an opinion, not a fact.

And Starr was practically run out of town.  He was pretty universally hated.[/quote]

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