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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the problems with acceleration in the lower grades at schools like Brent is that it won't be supported in the upper grades.  Even Walls wants kids who come in with advanced math skills to go back and retake stuff they've already mastered.  They have a half-baked math placement test but it's a joke, basically it's cover for the fact that they can't handle accelerated students.[/quote]

I believe it.  Looks to me like push will come to shove over math placement at Walls in the next couple of years, with dozens of BASIS kids who took algebra before 8th grade (including half a dozen who took it in 5th!) testing in.  Walls is going to come under new pressure to give serious math placement tests, and to permit advanced math classes where most of the students are white or Asian.  If they continue to balk, parents may well sue.  I hope that a class action suit is the result, one that will embarrass DCPS nationally.  [/quote]

So much hyperbole and silliness.

Dozens at Walls from BASIS? There are only 120 kids per grade at BASIS at most; half stay for high school, and not all 60 who leave wind up at SWW.

Parents can't sue DCPS over this - there is no right to anything of the sort.

Don't threaten - convince the SWW principal that more advanced classes will help their USNews rankings and so forth. You will get much more traction.[/quote]

It is my understanding that Walls is giving math placement tests and making kids repeat AP World History because of DCPS central office calling the shots and not because of the principal who must follow their guidelines in regards to this.

I will just say that DCPS is losing potential students over this stupid policy and therefore DCPS should not complain about losing students to charters. Differentiation, my ass! How about keep the students down so that we don't have to many kids exceeding![/quote]

Actually, I think it's because the DC Code of Municipal Regulations (DCMR) doesn't allow kids to earn high school credit while in middle school outside of a few exceptions such as foreign language and math. Why don't you call your city council member's office instead of bitching on here?[/quote]

At least two dozen BASIS 8th graders left for Walls this year.  I expect a few more to make the jump next year.  Thinly veiled SWW affirmative action-based admissions practices are risky business for the school in this century.  If anybody sues, it will be to challenge admission quotas for whites.  This happened at Boston Latin and the famous NYC Magnets 15 years ago.  The whites won.

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Agreed[/quote]

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