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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If schools went by the curriculum outlined, students wouldn’t repeat a novel. It clearly states that LOTF is a 9th grade read. It shouldn’t have been assigned in middle school. DC has curriculum issues, but the novels are clearly outlined. They had a milllion others books to choose from.

Regardless, a reread won’t hurt. Your child has grown and matured a great deal over the past two years. Perspectives change.[/quote]

Perhaps that cohort of students were advanced. Should the teacher hold students back because "the curriculum dictates when they will get to the material?" That line of thinking is absurd and its why DCPS has never had a gifted education program. The city is essentially saying in so many words there is no such thing as gifted education, all children are the same. This is not true as the research at multiple universities across the country have departments and write curriculum for gifted education. Johns Hopkins, Duke, UConn, William & Mary, Cornell, etc. [/quote]

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