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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg! The hand wringing on this thread is over the top. I am so thankful I didn’t have parents like you. You probably spent hours doing flash cards and worksheets with your toddlers. Now constantly ride your MS and HS kids to the brink of suicide obsessed with getting some imaginary leg up on your hypothetical competition. At the end of the day, if you’re making the typical DCUM income, your kid will do just fine in life because as study after study states, it’s better to be rich than smart. In the end, whether or not your Lake Wobegone gifted child is being challenged enough in DCPS, s/he will likely go to college, graduate, and do fine.

Now if your complaints were actually concerns for our DCPS community as a whole, I have respect for you. [/quote]

Let me correct you.  The kids will go to college unprepared to compete at a higher level against kids who are used to being challenged and pushed more with a higher performing peer group in a school district that has more rigor and higher expectations.  That is what you don’t get.

Just being accepted to college does not cut it.  Why don’t you goggle  all the articles on kids who did well in poor performing urban schools who then struggled in college.  Lots of those articles for you to peruse. Why don’t you ask the kid who graduated from McKinley tech with A’s in math who was placed in remedial math in college.  True story.  I don’t need to say more.

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Again, rich kids can’t fail at life. Statistically impossible.[/quote]

Who said anything about failing at life.  The point of above is that kids from DCPS will not be well prepared for college which I see you did not dispute. [/quote]

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