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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But isn't the non-immersion class an effort to serve the underachieving students, rather than allowign them to continue to under-achieve in the immersion class.  This is what I don't get - people who think (i) the school should serve all, but (ii) cry foul when they try to.  It's almost like the complainers are mortally offended that the school doesn't have a magic want to wave to make all students excel.  [/quote]

I agree with this.

Based on this discussion I went back on looked at the DC CAS results.  If you look not at the underachieving students, but at the advanced students you can see that advanced African American and non African American (White/Asian/Hispanic) students achieve equally.  For math there were equal numbers of advanced students (2 AA and 2 nonAA) and for reading AA students did better (only one advanced in reading, an AA student).    If you look at the scores for procient + advanced: reading = 12 AA and 10 nonAA; math =11 AA and 9 nonAA, so more or less equal.  What this tells me is that no one is being held back because of his/her race.  
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