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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, so why 11% white kids last school year, maybe 13 or 14% this year in a catchment area that's nearly 3/4 white?

If the school is wonderful, what explains chronically weak neighborhood buy-in since the 1970s?  Not enough of us attending open houses?

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She didn’t say it was wonderful. She said it had more positive sounding programs than she expected.

And yes probably not enough IB have given it a chance which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. [/quote]

We're in-bounds and would certainly give SH a chance if the school offered bona fide honors classes for our math gifted child. What they offer are at-grade level classes packaged as "advanced" (because the regular classes are remedial).

BASIS for us, with a little lottery luck.

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you won't need lottery luck for BASIS which always works through its entire 5th grade wait list.

I won't get into the "gifted" rabbit hole debate (a year or two advanced doesn't equal "gifted" fwiw), but my child is an objectively advanced math student who will be heading to Stuart without hesitation.[/quote]

Get into the gifted rabbit hole debate, please.  Go on, take a crack at it.  How about 3 years advanced?  Where are you drawing the line based on which corpus of academic research?

I'd wager that your advanced math student will be spending part of his or her future summers at math camps, working with tutors (possibly his or her math-gifted parents), or at least clocking a lot of hours on Khan Academy and/or Saxon Math.  Been on the Hill for 25 years and have heard this story before, umpteen times. PC politics and liberal guilt before appropriate math, and behavior, at SH.
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