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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The 2002 paper was responding to when GT was done in-home school. There was or still is an active campaign by MCEF to end gifted labeling and gifted centers.

Its very naive to pretend that the perspective to end GT centers and magnets because they predominantly only serve one segment of the population that is already privileged isn't strong within Montgomery County.

I wouldn't believe that anything is impossible. No one who moved Montgomery for the strong math curriculum ever expected MCPS to gut it as quickly as they did with 2.0. Boundary changes and busing is next to impossible because it involves a host of other parties from transportation to business developers. GT centers? Stroke of pen and they're gone. [/quote]

Except that nobody will ever do that stroke of a pen, because they know that it would be followed by deafening roars of outrage from many of the most affluent, entitled parents in Montgomery County (and the competition for that category in Montgomery County is stiff). Raising fears that Starr will abolish the HGCs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11! is useful if your goal is to rally the affluent parents. It's not so useful if your goal is to actually improve education in MCPS.[/quote]
It's not the affluent who would lead the charge - they could send their kids to private schools.  It is middle class families who prize education who would be the most upset.  Most of the families we know in HGCs and magnet are middle class.  They don't have fancy cars or fancy houses.  Their kids are bright and hard working and yes they generally have parents who value education and have spent a lot of time with their children trying to provide them with an enriching environment.  [/quote]

OK, it wouldn't be the super-affluent. It would be the affluent. (Because if you are middle-class in Montgomery County, you are affluent.) And so therefore...? [/quote]

And so therefore..... we are not talking about a tiny "elite" group of families sending their kids to these programs.  These are (in my experience) largely solidly middle class families.  Yes you need more income to have a middle class lifestyle but they are not living high on the hog.  [/quote]

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