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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]

The HGC program is challenging. Even many kids who are in it find the work load stressful and this is with the current selectivity.  Not sure why you would want to offer it to every kid.   [/quote]

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