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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish the District did start a gifted program like the kind that some poster want, if only to see the reactions of some of these parents when their kids don't test into it![/quote]

They'd just do what upper-income parents in NYC do: send their 4yos for test prep so that they make the cut-off. The result? "Gifted" programs that are bursting at the seams with above-average rich white kids.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/education/in-one-school-students-are-divided-by-gifted-label-and-race.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/nyregion/new-york-city-schools-struggle-to-separate-the-gifted-from-the-just-well-prepared.html?_r=0

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so what do you suggest?   No gifted programs and everyone moving to charters and/or MoCo and FCPS by middle school unless you are IB for Deal and Wilson like it is now.

[b]The article suggests DCPS wants upper income parents who have their kids in preschool at DCPS to stay but their "enrichment" program isn't going to lure anyone to do so[/b].[/quote]

But actually DCPS IS luring them to stay...this is the first time that DCPS has had year-after-year enrollment growth for students in 50 years. [/quote]

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