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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think DCs lack of advanced classes hurts ALL kids or all races and incomes.  Its just not realistic to put every kid in a class together when they have significantly different abilities. I hear your concern PP. And its likely a teacher is making some assumptions about your AA kid. But the reason DC got rid of gifted classes was because they were sued since they didn't have enough AA kids most likely due to testing bias.  I think the charge for gifted classes needs to be led by AA parents who demand more.  DC has just made DCPS standards so low.   Many charters become self-selecting in that regard. The parents with high achieving kids often are the same parents who can shuttle their kid across town to a better school, research schools, make multiple open houses etc. And those parents have kids that would do well anywyere. But again, why should high acheving kids get the shaft in DCPS?[/quote]

If you try to implement an advance program in DC everyone will scream racism because it will end up being all white/asian in certain placed in schools.[/quote]

And what would they be screaming in schools with few or no white or asian families?  I agree with the PP about DCPS standards, but DCPS very clearly attends to the wishes of those who are more affluent.  Lower income people can - and do - scream all they want but the label FARMS means that intelligence is about the very last need that will be considered.  And if there are mostly black kids in a program for high achievers, white people will complain it's not good enough and/or that resources should be diverted elsewhere to more "deserving" gifted/talented students. Exempli gratia, Banneker, Eastern, CHEC, McKinley, Ellington.[/quote]

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