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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I won't be able to make it to the coffee. However, can someone please ask Catania if supports test-in middle schools whereby high-SES white students can learn unencumbered by classroom disruptions that are caused by the less affluent minority type?  (and report back?)[/quote]

Cluster Cheerleader?  Nonresident?  Gotcha.   :roll:   Guess what, learning isn't race-based and there's nothing wrong with grouping high achievers to challenge them. [/quote]

I think the PP was snarking on 16:47.  The Cluster refuses to implement any level of G & T, pull-outs, or special programs, or even consider it.  The Cluster blames DCPS Central, but in reality I don't think the Cluster hierarchy wants it anyhow.  Supposedly there's some informal "honors" program at Stuart Hobson, and certainly nothing at Watkins. There's a troll that likes to dis on any mention of G & T or pull-outs, and the assumption is the troll reports on anyone who calls it out as a nonresident.  G & T or pull-outs aren't race-based; it's based on the student's achievement or the ability to achieve. Yet 16:47 wants to make it a racial issue, when in fact it's race-blind.  I don't think anyone on this blog cares about race but instead does care about getting a quality and safe education for their kids, which aside from upper NW, isn't happening within DCPS in most of the city. KIPP can be highly regarded because it takes safety seriously along with education; DCPS hasn't caught on, at least here on the Hill.  This makes me think that the eventuality is that education will be privatized because the public school culture is in such opposition to what many people want.  Don't want that to happen, but I'm becoming convinced there's no other solution.  [/quote]

Poster who wrote this--can you please do some research on the effectiveness (look for a term known as "ES") of traditional G/T pull out programs in elementary school and then get back to us? Also, while you're at it, can you please do some research on the results of most assessments that are commercially available and that are used to screen students for high levels of intelligence? Can you let us know if there's a racial skew there that seems rather unappetizing for most progressive school systems? [/quote]

PP - You're not a DC resident and you don't have kids. So bug out and let us have our own schools the way we want them so we don't end up like you living in the 'burbs. Something needs to be done to keep high SES families in the city, and you're not helping.[/quote]

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