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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was a skillful PR job AND a real turnaround. My question is how could parents turn around Jefferson in a city without gifted and talented programs, and with serious political problems with any arrangement that smacks of racial segregation (academic tracking)? At the Jefferson open house yesterday, I didn't come away with a clear view of how the achievement gap would be managed. It didn't sound like advanced students coming into Jefferson front Brent would be placed in appropriately challenging classes in every academic subject. 
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I think it is fair for parents to expect that Jefferson be able to provide challenging classes that are appropriate for their children.  What is slightly less fair is to expect that such a program to already exist before the first "advanced" child walks through the door.

Does the school/principal express any flexibility or understanding of the issue.  Like, if x number of "advanced" kids show up, we will have this Algebra and that Language Arts class no matter what.  If that is the real issue, it doesn't seem like that is the biggest mountain to climb.[/quote]

Have you ever sent your child(ren) to a DCPS Title 1 school past ECE?  We have, and so I predict that academic challenge at Jefferson will in fact be the biggest mountain to climb for the simple reason that Brent alone will be feeding high SES kids into Jefferson for many years.  The tiny number of Tyler Spanish Immersion parents who get to 5th grade aren't going, there aren't high SES kids even in the lower grades at Tyler Traditional or Amidon, and Van Ness is five years away from having any 5th graders to send.  The only way we can have advanced programs ready for advanced kids who walk through the door is to vote in politicians who will fight for funds to be allocated to them, and we don't seem to have that in Grosso, Allen etc.

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