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[quote=Anonymous][quote]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?

There is nothing wrong with me  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 years ahead of their classmates??????

I guess you do not 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]

In spite of your best wishes, there are very few gifted children in any school system and it is laughable to suggest that they are underserved. I understand, your district has a ridiculous measure that qualifies 40-70% of the kids in your school as "gifted" and you believe that your kid is worthy of some special accommodation because they test well. Cool. But, make no mistake. They are not gifted and they are no some left behind population ignored because of their brilliance. They are just, plainly, smart kids.

Why does this matter? Simple?

allocation of resources. You think your kid is YEARS ahead of other kids. I question the measure that would conclude that. I have 20 years experience in education and know that the kid who is YEARS ahead of other kids comes along, maybe once every ten years. You have no such experience and think your kid is brilliant. I get it. If you get others to think your poor brilliant kid is underserved, maybe you can convince the system to take pity on poor, underserved you. But again, here this. Your hardworking and smart kid is neither truly gifted, no worthy of extra services to assuage their first world problems.

Where should the resources go? Where they will do the most good. In service of the students in greatest need. This is not rocket science.

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