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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anecdotally - and backed up by the PP upthread whose child is at Rosa - the enrichment seems to be better implemented in heterogenous schools.

This makes some sense, because predominantly UMC, predominantly white/Asian schools are going to have a sh*tshow on their hands if they try to tell some of these parents that their kids didn't make the cut for the "advanced" classes.

It's probably easier just not to implement than to deal with hundreds of angry parents who were top of their class back in Boise and can't understand why little Sofia isn't also top of her class in one of the best educated and richest counties in the nation.

I wouldn't want that headache either.

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From what I hear, this is exactly what happened at Pyle over the summer. They were initially just going to give the gifted social studies curriculum to the cohort kids only and then parents started clamoring and complaining to get their kids in. It turns out everyone wants what is best for their kids, so the department adopted the new curriculum for all classes but kept the cohort of kids rejected from the magnet schools together so that those classes would be even more advanced by virtue of peer group. Rather than comparing what kids in the cohort and non-cohort classes are doing, can someone speak to whether or not their kids like the class and are interested in the material?[/quote]

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