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[quote=Anonymous]I think the issue is largely due to immigration patterns. I too went to an exam school in the Northeast in mid-80s and no way would make it today with families (largely immigrants who receive tutoring from their churches and a culture of valuing education) and elite parents sending their kids to public school for a private school experience (Blair Magnet) after years of cram school. Let’s face it G&T - and much of school - is a memory test in the arts and a working memory test in math. That software package is delivered at birth. The only method at dodging these two crowds would be to give every child a neuropsych exam upon entry to school. Lol! A place like MCPS won’t even give that to a third grader who they’ve watched fail for three years. But I am not kept up at night worrying about some naturally gifted kid in MCPS. I worry about the kid who is dyslexic and dyscalculic who just rolled in from a rural farm in Honduras.[/quote]
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