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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cognitive dissonance involved in having test-in high schools in DCPS but no test-in options at lower grades is amazing.  So, it's magically okay at 9th grade to offer programs of particular interest to the highest-achieving students but dangerous and wrong-headed at 8th? Or 6th? Or 2nd?  One could argue that it's actually much more inclusive to do so at the younger elementary grades when the effects of the achievement gap are less pronounced and gifted kids of all background could be ID's and supported early on.  Wake up, DCPS.  If you want to continue hemorrhaging those kids to Charters, then great, by all means, proceed.  Want to capture those families and keep them in neighborhood schools?  Start serving them in a rich, meaningful way. [/quote]

There has to be way to identify gifted kids who are less privileged, besides relying on straight scores.  [/quote]

Sorry, but my 40 plus year old husband was one of a group of gifted less privileged mostly minority kids who were identified relying on "straight scores" in 2nd grade.  That first step changed his life forever and got him out of the South Bronx and to an Ivy League school... so... better to use straight scores early than not use anything... In 2nd grade they don't ask you what a regatta is, like the classist SATs, and the WISC etc the tests private schools use to choose preschool kids ought to be good enough for us.  At least they would be doing something...[/quote]

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