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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"You missed the point that the needs of advanced learners are not[u] being met by public schools. Do not these students count as well? Shall we not meet their needs?"

The vast majority of students' needs are not being met. The average, the above average, the special needs students, and the challenged. The so called advanced learners are not entitled to any greater services than any other city child. Their families should not be allowed to change the charter law to allow them to keep their precious lottery spot throughout high school at taxpayer expense unless every other child gets a fair chance to join that school and cannot be shut out because the families of allegedly advanced students got lucky when their kid is in kinder.

You can't shut out other kids you don't want in your tax payer funded school, under some foolish delusion that you earned it because your child is advanced, and somehow, underserved.

what's wrong with you?

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There is nothing wrong with me :mrgreen:  You are kidding yourself if you think DC schools serve advanced learners since DC schools do not even have gifted IEPs or any gifted programs. In fact, most public schools around the country do not have gifted education or only have so-called "gifted education" programs for a couple of hours a week especially in elementary or middle schools.

OTOH DC schools most certainly to try to serve struggling learners and special needs kids with IEPs or via sending kids to private schools. Most public school classrooms set their priorities on struggling learners and allow advanced learners to not really learn anything.

How do you propose to meet the needs of a kid who is [b]years[/b] ahead of their classmates??????

I guess you do [b]not[/b] believe in serving the needs of all kids.

As for shutting other kids out of schools, I am not advocating that. I am advocating choices for those who want or need a rigorous education in order to meet the needs of all kids. I also think admissions criteria is not necessarily a bad thing.

Why is it ok to have try outs for sports teams??? Is not this discriminatory???? Why is it ok for sports teams to have try outs but not some schools???[/quote]

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