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[quote=Anonymous]Op here.

The best example to show where DCPS fails isn't successful charters. It's other urban public school systems that offer special schools for hardworking/advanced kids.e.g., the Bronx High School of Science.  At the same time, I hope the school becomes another indictment against how DCPS a treats intellectual kids.

I suspect that many in DCPS rationalize that any mechanism for identifying  hardworking/advanced kids will tend to track race differences, and therefore is repugnant discrimination.    At the same time, I wonder whether there are a large number of people in DC that look down on intellectual kids generally as being elitist; and whether the real thought processes are simply anti-intellectualism.  No doubt a different sort of anti-intellectualism then might exist in some tea-party types that we have become so vividly familiar with since 2008, but no less real and comparable in their fear of intellect.

I don't conflate a focus on academics for intellectual kids with private school education. As if poor/middle class kids aren't entitled to those things. [/quote]

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