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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AA Brent parent, high-SES, who thinks that 17:08 is right on.  We left the Cluster because bleeding hearts there weren't serious about ensuring that bright kids were challenged.  The Cluster has had SINCE THE EARLY 90s to provide challenge but never gets around to it, explaining the high rate of IB attrition in the upper grades at Watkins, and between Watkins and SH.

If you're going to "fight" anything, fight the boneheaded DCPS/ultra liberal view that differentiated learning in the classroom is all that advanced learners need in diverse schools.  It's a false dogma which still fuels white/high-SES flight.  Don't fight parents who candidly reject mushy-minded thinking on the issue, of whatever race, wherever they may stand on the political, and socioeconomic, spectrum.

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Again, not fighting the idea of providing challenges for kids.  Fighting the idea that [b]the only way to achieve that is to get low SES and African American students out of Brent[/b].  Shockingly the big push for the pull out in the upper grades for advanced math and reading was the more diverse upper grade families.
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Had the PP said this, you might have a point. But they didn't. They were referring to the low SES kids that come from OOB. Your transparent attempt to make it about race is disingenuous and undermines whatever point you're trying to make.  And it's one of the reasons we can't have an honest conversation about things like SES, race, and public policy. The second someone speaks honestly, the cheap attacks of racism come flying fast and furious.  It's an effective way of shutting down the debate, but pretty unsavory.[/quote]

"Some of us are quietly glad to see the school become less "diverse" and more in-bounds in a city that won't support gifted and talented elementary programs. We can't see how our kids would be challenged in the upper grades any other way. "

THat is the line that I was responding to.  You want to talk honestly.  As a city we have failed all of our chldren.  I'm not comforatble saying that lets get rid of out of bounds kids so it can just be us rich people who can afford to buy in the school district.  Then all our problems will be solved.  We'll have gifted programs and our children will succeed.

Should there be programs for kids who are advanced?  Absolutely, as I said my kid is benefitting from that idea at Brent right now.  But at the end of the day, we are a public school and we have to serve all children, whatever their race, SES staus and ability.  If you want to only have High SES kids in your school, shell out the money and go private. [/quote]

Pretty clear "diversity" in regards to Hill schools (and DCPS in general) is being used ironically. The folks who fret about "losing diversity" are talking about upper grades where almost every student is lower SES and OOB.  So, yes, we need to lose some of that diversity.

[i]at the end of the day, we are a public school and we have to serve all children, whatever their race, SES staus and ability.[/i]

Actually, at the end of the day, you are a neighborhood public school with in-boundary preference, and you have to serve all [b]in-boundary[/b] children whatever their race, SES status and ability.[/quote]

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