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Reply to "letter received today from MCPS about HGC"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our home school, where there is about a 40% FARMS rate and many well educated middle/upper middle class families as well, I think that making a whole class HGC would be detrimental to closing the achievement gap. It would have the opposite effect of MCPS's goal with these pilots. It would just be tracking. [/quote] We're at a school that's closer to 50% FARMS and, honestly, the high performers aren't even close to all white/Asian. Yes, the white/Asian kids are over represented, but if you created a "gifted" class, it would probably be about half white/Asian and half Black/Latinx compared to a regular class that's only 25% white/Asian. But...still, since the Black/Latinx kids rarely make it to the HGC, this model would do a better job of closing the achievement gap than what we have now. [/quote]
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