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But can they? with all the handouts going on in MoCo and concentrated low income households, I am not sure. My house is almost 1mil in TP, most of the kids families at my sons school (PBES) can’t afford that. There can be huge cultural difference separated by just a few blocks.

Different kids need different classes, this has always been the case. Remedial classes help low performance kids, it isn’t fair to either side to make the classes average and stick everyone in there. To fast for the kids lagging and too slow for the bright kids, who do you think the teacher will ignore when they have to chose? I fully understand that some of the obstacles come from things outside the kids control but that doesn’t really matter. At some point someone will tell them they didn’t make the cut.

Me wishing my kids are around the other top kids isn’t wishing bad for the other kids. I hope everyone gets the help they need not the help some politically sensitive person thinks has better optics [/quote]

We all hope everyone gets the help they need. Rather than, for example, assuming that white middle-class kids need gifted classes and black and Hispanic kids need remedial classes.[/quote]

There is either an achievement gap or there isn’t. It can’t be a metric of convenience used to justify getting better stuff and invalidating test scores.[/quote]

1) It’s actually an opportunity gap as well. Which means that when opportunities are hoarded for white and Asian kids, we’re missing out on bright AA and HI students.
2) it isn’t just kids of color who are hurt by this approach. I know many white MC families who know gifted and advanced classes are not appropriate for their children. They think the compacted math to Geometry in 8th path is developmentally inappropriate for their children and question why their child was placed on that pathway despite obvious gaps in skills. They are spending money on 4 years of math tutors that could be saved for college. Others fight with counselors so they can take their kids out of MS FL and place them in fun electives. [/quote]

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