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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is not being challenged = my kid is around too many other kids with behavior issues. As a teacher what I love this year is that all my high SES parents threaten to leave because of lack of rigor- when the only truly advanced kid I have is FARMS. The real question is , if DCPs really did g&t how would all the parents react when they realized their kid was just average. [/quote]

I think it is a shame that that one advanced child in your class doesn't get additional resources. My suspicion is that the powers that be at DCPS think that the G&T classes would be filled with white kids. I'm pretty certain they would be the opposite. I wish they would try this out -- it would shut up the helicopter parents and give some students from hard backgrounds a real chance to excel.[/quote]

Here here![/quote]

Depends on the criteria and approval process for getting kids qualified into the program. It's interesting to compare Moco to FCPS. Moco's HGC has remained a very small program while FCPS's has become enormous, I think because parents have the power to apeal, pay for outside testing etc so it's easier to game the system and get your kid in. I think if the latter type of program was implemented in DCPS then you'd have a really unbalanced population in the gifted and talented. If the program was kept intentionally small and looked for children who are legitimately gifted (ie the top 3-5%) then you'd get a more representative population.[/quote]

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