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"Yes, absolutely I blame Ward 6 parents for choosing not to invest in their neighborhood schools. These things are not going to be handed to you on a silver platter; there's no reason for DCPS to go out if its way to "incentivize" a certain, very privileged group of parents who vocally and hostilely turn up their noses at mixing with the hoi polloi. Enroll your kid and ask them to be skipped into 8th grade algebra if you feel they are ready, then ask to send them to Eastern to take advanced math later on. Truly advanced math students have always had to come up with solutions like that."

Does this pp have a child in DCPS? It is VERY hard to get your child anything out of the ordinary unless you have an IEP. Leaving campus during the day? Skipping a grade level in math? NO WAY would that ever happen. That's why the other pp said the only thing offered for math was to spend time playing computer games - that is what passes for differentiated learning your advanced students in DCPS. Which is why do many families leave. Over and over.[/quote]

Couldn't agree more. DCPS has a strong tendency to dig in its heels when parents ask for flexibility, keeping the Chief Student Advocate and DC Public Schools Ombudslady at OSSE very busy. Paternalism and seeking to compel families to march in step are their strong suit, along with keeping advanced learners (mostly high SES) back in the service of narrowing the achievement gap.  It sounds like a number of PPs on this thread haven't been in Ward 6 for very long.  After more than 20 years on the scene, I know that there is almost no chance that a 6th grader would ever be "skipped into 8th grade algebra," let alone be permitted to take "advanced math" at Eastern (one of the several lowest performing high schools in the city).  [/quote]

Well, has this ever been presented as one of the ways to serve the "advanced learners" on the Hill?  And keep in mind that a small cohort of privileged parents looking for exceptions to rules with no sensitivity sometimes looks like a request for something other than "flexibility."  You sound a bit paranoid about them trying to keep "advanced learners" down.  [/quote]

"Sensitivity"? [/quote]

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