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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks, appreciate that perspective! It's just that you hear so much about how competitive the selection process to these programs is, and how only the highest test scores, great overall school record and great teacher recommendations etc. will get a kid into such a program, and then you see a kid in that very program who has trouble keeping up as well as behavior issues, and you wonder!!
The kids are very much expected to work well together in groups and are graded on this, and according to my DC, others have to slow down and even risk poor grades when they have to work with him because this child just can't or won't keep up. And I already asked my child if this kid is better in other subjects (other than math) and DC said this is how he is, all day! Again, I do appreciate your perspective, and do understand that being inclusive is necessary in regular schools. But for a specialized merit-based program?? It is difficult for me to understand how a kid who clearly can't keep up with his peers academically or behaviorally belongs in that program! What about the other kids in the class who have to suffer because of it?
And if the child is performing poorly because of circumstances outside the school, MCPS still needs to figure out how to provide this child what he needs instead of letting him struggle in a competitive program and make others struggle with him![/quote]

This is very discouraging to hear. I wonder how he ended up in this program.[/quote]

There were apparently some last-minute additions to the program my child is in but they were not "diversity" additions despite what PP above might want to believe. They were very much political additions based on people with power either in the county or in the school system. [/quote]

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