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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe DC does not offer advanced, gifted, honors b/c more than 1/2 of it's three graders cannot read at grade level same for all their other grades.  Kind of looks bad to offer advanced instruction for high SES kids (white, Asian, black) when the majority of the kids (FARMS, AA) cannot read.[/quote]

This gets at the heart of it...  The cookie cutter approach.  DC has kids able to function at varying levels, yet it wants to impose a backward one-size-fits-all model that does not accommodate that.  The kids that are struggling at reading, for example, clearly need extra help, which could be provided via reading labs and other types of activities.  They clearly do not meet the needs of disabled kids, given the huge amounts of money spent to ship disabled kids out-of-state, and they likewise clearly do not meet the needs of gifted and talented kids, given the lack of such programs even though many other states have had them for DECADES.  One-size-fits-all does not work.  Choices are needed.[/quote]

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