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[quote=Anonymous]I would put it differently.  Should schools seek to provide academic options to serve and challenge each and every one of their students? Yes but as a policy goal that might be unrealistic for the kids on the most extreme ends of the spectrum.  In the other hand, does it make sense for a school district to limit its students to doing only grade level work? Absolutely not. “Grade level” is a minimal standard that, at least theoretically, experts in the field have decided should be attained by all students regardless of their academic or professional aspirations or potential.  It is a floor and should not be a ceiling. Grade level work might be ok for some kids but is not going to be ok for the future scientists, engineers, doctors, professors, architects, and dare I say lawyers of this world.  If public schools cannot also serve these kids it is going to drive more and more of these families to private school, while simultaneously ensuring the ones that remain don’t graduate with the academic preparation to pursue these professions, further dividing the professional class from everyone else and providing fewer opportunities for at risk kids to cross class lines through education.   All of this dumbing down and refusal to accelerate UMC kids is done in the name of equity but is a very shortsighted approach, favored by politicians like Bowser of course.  [/quote]

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