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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure I see your point.

Why worry about backlash over G&T when CURRENTLY no kids in DCPS are being given adequate educational choices regardless of whether or not they are G&T?

At least a G&T program would start to address the needs - and would allow DCPS to be able to start focusing on the other kids whose educational needs aren't being met either.

The way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.  But instead all we have is endless paralysis and hand-wringing, and as a result nothing gets done.[/quote]

First, there are kids in DCPS that are being given adequate educational choices.  Unfortunately, it is not widespread and they are now virtually impossible to get into by OOB lottery.

You are solving a problem that you see as a way to keep your children in the system (assuming of course your children qualify) and it will likely be viewed politically as giving more to the haves while not addressing the needs of the kids that DC is failing miserably that do not have choices (by choices I mean parents that can and will vote with their feet and ensure their kids are educated).  From the way you write, it is clear that you are educated and likely were not raised in DCPS so you chose to move here and you probably had opportunities to think about your child's educational outcomes along the way and decided you could make a go of it in some manner.  The children most under served by DC do not have a choice.  It would be nice/good/ideal for your children to be well served by DCPS.  That said, your children will be fine because you will make choices to ensure this.  I will do the same if it stops working for us.  We might not like the choices, but there are plenty of good public and private schools in the area, we just may have to move or make financial choices we wish we did not have to make.

I support a GT program (and I think my children would qualify).  But, I do not think it will happen because of the political landscape until you make more schools effective for the kids in the most need.

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