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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, as the middle school population grows (or potential middle school population), schools on the rise start to attract other well prepared students from OOB (see the Maury parent comments from earlier). It will take brave and hardworking parents to get the ball rolling, but it sounds like there is a principal at Jefferson willing to work with them.

Also, this is all a bit insulting to current Jefferson students who are proficient/advanced. There is already a cohort.[/quote]

All 15 of them?  [/quote]

Taking this question seriously. I'm not going to look up the exact numbers right now, but if you assume Jefferson is roughly 300 kids and 12% are proficient or advanced, that's 36 kids. Spread over 3 grades, that's 12 per grade. Not a huge number but certainly enough for advanced classes which I know they have in at least math. Brent kids could easily double that. If you want all proficient/advanced kids in your entire class, you are in the wrong neighborhood...[/quote]

No, you're in the right neighborhood without much in the way of academic tracking/streaming, or any middle school test-in options. This is because politicians don't get voted out for failing to insist that DCPS challenges advanced and gifted kids appropriately in neighborhood schools in 6th-8th grades. Please vote the refuseniks and wimps out, and encourage other dissatisfied voters to do the same.

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