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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't agree.  The DCPS schools mostly serving high SES/white kids routinely offer above grade-level math instruction, mostly with PTA funds.   So when parents can and will come together to pay, it's fine for DCPS offer advanced pullouts, and even classes, but not when they don't?  What kind of BS system is that?

Deal and Hardy offer 7th grade algebra, but not Hobson, though many kids in the catchment area could handle the math.  If the mayor and our city council members were demanding that above grade-level instruction was offered system-wide (under pressure from voter lobbies) it would be offered.  Michelle Rhee was giving speeches about starting GT programs before Fenty went down.

Segregation?  Give me a break.  My Latino cleaning lady of a decade lives in Silver Spring. [b] Both of her children were identified as math gifted in the 2nd grade and give special supports from then on, including all expenses paid summer math camps in the upper elementary school grades.  They currently take advanced math classes at Silver Spring International School.  The lady tells me that most of their math classmates are high SES and white, but certainly not all.  
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MoCo does a decent job identifying and supporting FARMs talent, particularly for math.  DCPS could do the same, it just doesn't bother to fund the initiatives.

We're heading to BASIS, at least if the waiting list continues to clear each fall.

Anecdote . . . but if your cleaning lady says so  :roll:

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MOCO 2017:
3rd grade 
47.5 met/exceeded ELA 
54.3 met/exceeded for math

4th grade
52.2 met/exceeded ELA 
48.4 met/exceeded math

51.6 met/exceeded ELA
45.5 met/exceeded math
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