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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those confused on the math or caught up in obfuscating the numbers, let's simplify.  There are 76,000 students enrolled in DCPS and DC charters.  The top 2% would be 1,500 students.  Now, consider that there are entire DCPS schools which enroll fewer kids than that.  Yet the argument is that there aren't enough kids to support it?  That argument is completely laughable.[/quote]

Well, the issue is how many of those kids would be AA?  If you placed by IQ or something similar it would probably be 95+% white which would be political suicide.[/quote]

Bingo.  This is why a targeted GT program is going to be unlikely here.  Besides, 100% differentiation (a la the W.I.N. program) is about the only hope for real progress.  Pull-outs and tracking will always miss kids, even with testing (studies are showing between 40-60% capture rates).

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+1  NYC takes the top 3% - much MUCH bigger population - and even though the testing is blind  on race, gender, SE status, etc. and purely based on test results, there are still complaints that the majority of kids at the magnets like Stuy and Bronx Science are Asian.

A gifted school like TJ and Stuy will not happen in DC b/c here it will be filled to brim with high SES, white kids.[/quote]

It would probably skew asian here in DC too.  But, the important thing to note is that the fact that IQ tests skew to favor asians (and often kids of asian immigrants) - which actually shoots holes in the notion that it's all rigged to favor whites or rigged to favor high-SES, establishment insiders or white culture - rendering the political arguments about IQ tests being a function of "white privilege" rather unsound and irrelevant.

So, throwing that political argument out the door, we are back at the point of there not really being any legitimate argument why DCPS can't support better options for G&T students.[/quote]

You realize that many of those Asian immigrants are highly educated professionals who would be considered upper middle class in their countries.  So while high IQ is not a function of "white privilege", it is a function of class and SES no matter what your nationality.[/quote]

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