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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

maybe they should offer [b]every[/b] kid the level of education they offer the gifted kids.  [/quote]

So a child that is not reading much yet should be put in a class reading books on the third grade level in first grade and asked to write about them.  A child still working on the concept if multiplication should be in a very fast paced 5th grade level math class in 3rd grade.  In fifth grade, a child still working on forming well structured paragraphs should be asked to write a 10+ page research project?  I would not want that for my typical on grade level student  It would be too much and inappropriate to his needs.[/quote]

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