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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on, when you have favorable school demographics, you essentially have honors classes.

Not having honors classes in "neighborhood schools" is obviously a much bigger problem in this city where most students are low SES than in schools where most are high SES.

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Then say what you mean. Objections to SH or EH or Jefferson are not about the lack of honors classes but rather about disadvantaged kids. [/quote]

This what you're saying, not me.

I was a disadvantaged kid growing up, in NYC. Even so, I had access to stellar GT programs in the public school system from 3rd grade on up.  As an adult, I became a government lawyer.

My objections to the way SH, EH and JA work are in fact about the lack of honors classes, particularly for disadvantaged kids who could and would do the work in such classes, with the right supports.  The tyranny of low expectations still has a firm grip on DCPS. [/quote]

Not disputing that. But the course offerings are not any more advanced at Latin. The standard level at BASIS (outside of English) is since they begin covering high school material in 6th in history, science and math, and some are prepared for it and some most definitely are not.[/quote]

We all know that even if the course offerings technically aren't more advanced at a school with mostly low SES kids vs. at a school with mostly high SES kids, in reality, they are.  Because most high SES kids get a lot of intellectual stimulation at home, and benefit from enrichment outside school their families pay for, they can build on a less-than-inspiring and challenging curriculum in ways low SES kids generally can't.  E.g. when my ES kid was studying the American Revolution in social studies at his DCPS, we took him to Mt. Vernon, Monticello and Colonial Williamsburg to supplement. His low SES classmates didn't get to go. [/quote]

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