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[quote=Anonymous][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 [b]it ends up creating very visible and obvious socioeconomic and racial segregation.[/b] 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]

If they did away with HGC at the "lower" performing schools, and Asian/white kids from affluent areas stopped going there, all that would happen is that lower power performing school would be less diverse in that there would hardly be any Asian/white kids from higher ses.  Having the HGC there actually seems to make those schools more diverse ethnically and SES.

If they truly want to desegregate for both race and SES they should just bus kids from one side of the "tracks" to the other.  Doing away with HGC will only make the racial and SES divide bigger within schools.  And the MSA or PARCC test scores would probably still show the achievement gap along racial lines.

Getting rid of HGC will neither achieve closing the achievement gap or desegregating. [/quote]

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