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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But does the school wide model work?[/quote]

I think the answer to that necessarily depends on what you are asking. What do you mean by "work"? Isn't the point that different educators have different goals for gifted and enrichment programs?[/quote]
[b]It definitely doesn't work for those whose goal is to segregate.[/b]
I don't know of any long term studies correlating test score increases, if that's what matters to you.
To me, it seems great. Kids get exposure to new challenges. And it's completely flexible. I like it.[/quote]

Come on, the bone-headed DC model aggresively segregates by race and class, without segregation as the goal.  Most white families who start in DC public flee long before HS for lack of challenge and peer groups parents see as desirable, and few Asians will touch the system from the get go.  There are 150 Asians in all DCPS and 300,000 in the burbs.

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your post is racist and untrue. 
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Which part?  The part about whites fleeing?  Watkins, DCPS' biggest elementary school, has long been around one-third white in first grade and less than 10% white by 5th.  By 8th grade at Stuart Hobson, you're down to not even 5% white in a catchment area that's 2/3 white.  The part about Asians avoiding DCPS?  150 Asians in the entire system, mostly in Upper NW?  Count 'em.  Let's stick with the facts, shall we? [/quote]

While we are "sticking with the facts". You may want to concede that Watkins is not the largest elementary school in dc, I have not looked at all, but at least Murch, Janney and Lafayette are larger, Lafayette by more than 100 students and the majority of their students of all races proceed to Deal.

I think you would have a lot more students of all races in DCPS middle school on the hill if DCPS could bring all the prepared students together in a single middle school rather than spreading them across three.  It is about a prepared cohort, not race.[/quote]

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