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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC doesn't have as large a population as NYC and the fact of the matter is, "testing-in" will have the end result of segregation by race and socio-economic status:  well off mostly whites in "gifted" and poor AA in regular classes.  Everyone knows this.  So keep harping about it and save up for private.[/quote]

Haven't posted here before but don't see pps clamoring for "testing-in" as "harping;" they're just a little ahead of their time...

DCPS must move in the direction of such programs eventually to keep affluent voters/taxpayers in the system, explaining why the issue keeps coming up.  Rhee & Bloomberg held a joint public meeting in town in early 2010 where audience members asked when DCPS will set up g&t programs like new york's.  Rhee didn't duck the issue like Henderson does.

With DCPS seeking to avoid segregation by sticking with differentiated learning w/in the classroom, although the highest-performing urban school districts in the country (like chicago) rejected the model long ago, they get it on a much grander scale than they would by screening poor kids for giftedness young & providing them with a push to keep up with high SES peers.

DC can only duck the testing-in issue for so much longer, as affluent voters gain politcal capital by becoming a bigger slice of the demographic pie.  Please, the size of our population isn't what's keeping the city back on test-in middle schools.  Everybody knows this.

Brent's changing demographics are generating resentment & jealousy on the Hill from those who can't afford to buy in the Brent district.  The development leads more and more parents to wonder why it's ok to have mostly whites in a neighborhood school, just not in a g&t program that would benefit more poor AA kids than Brent will have soon...

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Whites/middle class folks already have JKLMM.  DCPS already has segregation by race and SES and now that there is a sizable middle class on the Hill, they feel they are entitled to get their own 'school' using testing-in to accelerate the process.  Good luck with that.[/quote]

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