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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not that simple. Our Latino cleaning lady's 10 year-old attends at GT program in MoCo. She tells me that he's attending a sleep-away GT math summer school the county is paying for.

From what I've seen when she brings him with her to work, his math homework is much harder than that my "snowflake" of the same age gets at a DC charter with a mile-long WL for every grade.  [/quote]

[b]MoCo teacher here and DCPS parent (for the free pre-k). I currently teach enriched and accelerated math for students who are most likely to make it to the GT center. Enrichment and acceleration are two different things. Enrichment is a bit more challenging but still grade content level work. There's everything from critical thinking tasks, to critique a piece tasks, etc. Acceleration is above grade level content---many times a full year to two years above. I could not do enriched/acceleration and teach students who were severely behind. I teach in a "W" school and my class is diverse in terms of race and SES. When it's time for DD to go to Kinder, I'm pulling her from DCPS to MCPS as MCPS does a better job tracking, identifying and supporting GT students. MCPS also works with GT/LD students. Gifted students who might have a slight learning disability (ADHD, etc). It's sad that DCPS refuses to insert a GT program and what's worse it that they rebfuse to allow charters to be innovative or flexible to have a program.[/b][/quote]

So you only have a kid in DCPS “for the free pre-k” and you’re planning on “pulling her from DCPS to MCPS” for K—are you planning on moving, or are you a residency cheater?[/quote]

I am a legal residing DC resident. I pay taxes to the Feds and DC. Not everyone commutes into the city for work. This is a tri-state area. Thank you very much. [/quote]

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