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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way to see how income plays into this particularly strongly in DC is to filter the NCES data by National School Lunch Eligibility.

Select 4th grade, reading, national school lunch eligibility, 2013.

DC has a 50-point gap between eligible/not eligible for free lunch and the highest scores in the country for those in the "not eligible" category.[/quote]

That said, at most DC private schools and better MoCo publics, the majority of the students test above proficient in the basic categories. [b]Teachers can't teach just to the advanced students in a class while ignoring the ones lagging behind.[/b] They usually end up somewhere in the middle, or if the majority of the class isn't getting it, slowing things down a bit. The more "advanced" students (in this case the ones not eligible for free lunch) will always get As, but you have to wonder if you're doing your "advanced" child a disservice if a quality education is your priority. Are they really being challenged academically? What could they be learning if most of their classmates were beyond the basic level?  [/quote]

Your bolded point is valid, but not applicable in DC. The advanced students are not in the same classes (often, they're not in the same schools) as the lagging students. Teaching only to the advanced students is not what's going on in DC. [/quote]

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