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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I must be the only person on DCUM who does not assume my kid would get into a G&T program if one existed. [/quote]

Since when is everyone on SCUM on this thread?   They aren't.
And who said anything about it being a given that your kid will get in? 
And if the argument is that we shouldn't have a program just because your kid might not get in, then it's a lame one. By that same logic, apparently schools shouldn't have football teams either, because not every child will make it on the team. [/quote]

Right - School athletics programs tend to disproportionately skew in favor of AA kids.  Since we don't like disproportionate skew along racial lines favoring Asian kids, and therefore people think we shouldn't have G&T programs because of that, apparently that means we should get rid of school athletics programs too.

If one skew is justifiable then so is the other.  The pushback on G&T programs given everything else out there really doesn't hold water.  And reading through this thread, looks like every other argument against G&T has also been blown out of the water.

It's time, DCPS needs to move forward with this.[/quote]

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