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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I do agree that education policy makers are not interested in [b]gifted[/b] kids, but I don't think they are trying to put down any particular ethnic group. The fact is that schools are now judged on closing the achievement gap and also having as many kids as possible meet some minimum education level. Spending resources to optimize the well prepared kids hurts the achievement gap because it raises the bar needed to close the gap.[quote]

No one so far has talked about "gifted" kids.  Since I do not know wbat the hell you mean by this term I will revert back to the term high performing kids.  You are correct MCPS is not interested in high performing kids because these children are largely not theirs.  These kids are largely not the children of MCPS establishment or teachers. This observation gets to the core motive of the policy; a policy with little financial impact short of musical chairs.  If MCPS embraced the diversity of this County such policy would never have seen the light of day.  If the locals were the victims of this policy it would never have seen the light of day.  Issuing an edict to prevent able and high performing children to advance after subject mastery in math has nothing to do with the new common core standards but everything to do with the locals and the establishment trying desperately to keep high performing children of immigrants in their sights.  And of course the MCPS educational establishment and locals are going to disagree.  They are the only "beneficiaries" of such a policy.[/quote]

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