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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Washington DC has one of the highest concentrations of the bright and talented in the nation.  Tons of analysts, researchers, and others come from all parts of the country and the world to work in Washington DC.  The highest concentration of PhDs in the nation is right here in DC.

Accordingly, it stands to reason that many DC kids come from these brilliant parents are benefiting from growing up in households where academics and intelligence are highly valued.

Yet DC resists adoption of robust G&T programs, it resists magnets or test-in schools to support the clear need that exists, for one and only one reason:  because it's political.  It's because they fear it will skew white - a fear that is probably true, given how white students scored far above national averages per NAEP.

It's a fear, purely over optics - but it's ultimately a fear that ends up holding ALL students back, and it ends up holding DCPS itself back, as many of those bright and talented families who came to DC end up pulling out of DCPS or avoiding DCPS altogether to instead send their kids to privates, to charters, or moving to the burbs, and DCPS ends up cutting off its own nose to spite its face.

DCPS has a problem accepting reality.[/quote]

The bright and talented kids are in the DCPS schools and they are NOT being held back. [/quote]

Yes, they are.  In 3rd, DS was told to stop reading ahead, for fear that he would become bored later.  This was by both a teacher and a counselor.

DS is now at BASIS in 6th -- first time in his life that he has only been hold back a little bit.

There are quite a few stories like his.[/quote]

What school?  I have a very bright third grader at a JKLMM and I have not experienced this happening.  [/quote]

+1 I have a kid being pulled out for an advanced math class.  Though I'm sure that's not good enough for some posters as it's only 1x/week.  [/quote]

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