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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

Here's my analysis. My child attended a DCPS school from pre-k to Grade Six. Then we went private, in DC. The only program that would work politically is one that combines targeting BOTH gifted and talented and underachieving. A stand alone campaign to get G+T programs will come off as elitist. If you think about it, what should the priority be?[/quote]

Yes - to piggyback on this, the most significant indicator of academic success (at least, early academic success) is parental education/SES.  In DC, the sad reality is that most highly educated/high SES parents are white.  Therefore, the G+T program would be mostly high SEs (not all, obviously) and mostly white (again, not all).  That's politically untenable for a vast majority of the politicians in DC.

The easiest way to address this is to allow charters to create magnet/G-T programs.  But as pps have pointed out, the charter law would have to be amended to permit a selective admissions process.  And again, there's little incentive among DC politicians for that - the fear is that a bunch of magnet charters would spring up, and the only kids left in DCPS would be poor performers.  That's not an unrealistic fear, either.

Sad to say, it's likely that we (and other parents with the means to do so) will be leaving our excellent charter in the next few years because of these issues.  [/quote]

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