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[quote=Anonymous][quote]3. Am I hearing this right? You want to do away with HGC because the black/hispanic kids are getting their feelings hurt? I'm all for providing additional services to underachieving kids, but this has got to be the dumbest reason to get rid of HGCs.[/quote]

I've heard or read about this too. One of the larger problems cited for any type of tracking is that it ends up creating very visible and obvious socioeconomic and racial segregation. This is not unique to Starr. MCPS officials were talking about this years before Starr. Weast was politically more in favor of supporting and growing the GT and magnet schools so it was buried but there are many long time administrators in MCPS that would happily do away with the centers because they believe it is money wasted on already privileged kids . I suspect that Starr would do this in a second if the BOE wouldn't object. All of his rhetoric is in line with the no tracking, no acceleration, and no advanced opportunities educational model. [/quote]

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