Elementary School Suggestion

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Lakewood! DS "graduated" from Lakewood two years ago. We had a fantastic experience!

[Anonymous]

Thank you all for the suggestions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS does not have kids skip grades. That is very old fashioned. Kids need to be with their social peers. Your child will receive the learning he needs.

Not true at all. They do allow kids to skip grades.

[Anonymous]

You should ask on the GTA letters listserv.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS does not have kids skip grades. That is very old fashioned. Kids need to be with their social peers. Your child will receive the learning he needs.

Not true at all. They do allow kids to skip grades.

What do you base this statement on?

[Anonymous]

i know several kids who skipped one to three grades. period. you cannot deny the fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS does not have kids skip grades. That is very old fashioned. Kids need to be with their social peers. Your child will receive the learning he needs.

Not true at all. They do allow kids to skip grades.

What do you base this statement on?

I know one child who skipped from K to 1st grade in October or November of his first year of school. The ES is in Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

^^^The school, not his parents, initiated the grade-skip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i know several kids who skipped one to three grades. period. you cannot deny the fact.

Three grades? Several kids? I guess I can't deny it, but I don't believe it. OP is talking about elementary school--I could see students graduating early from high school by taking summer and community college courses, and thus moving up several grades, but no six-year-old is going to be moved up to 4th grade.

I'm a teacher, in MCPS, and grade-skipping is rare, but does occur. The only instances I've seen have been students who are coming from another school district/country or private school and have already completed the equivalent of the "age appropriate" grade. For instance, one student a few years ago had gone to junior kindergarten in California, was incredibly bright, and was moved from regular K to 1st grade after one quarter. In the same vein, we had a student last year who came from a country that started the equivlaent to our K at age 6, not 5, so while the student's age put him in 4th grade, his parents requested he be placed in 3rd.

I wouldn't choose a school based on the potential for skipping a grade, though. In general, most MCPS schools will have the same policy and criteria for meriting this. The default is that students belong with their social peers and should be challenged within that setting, but if your child really needs to be moved to a higher grade to get appropriate education, it is not completely off the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i know several kids who skipped one to three grades. period. you cannot deny the fact.

Three grades? Several kids? I guess I can't deny it, but I don't believe it. OP is talking about elementary school--I could see students graduating early from high school by taking summer and community college courses, and thus moving up several grades, but no six-year-old is going to be moved up to 4th grade.

I'm a teacher, in MCPS, and grade-skipping is rare, but does occur. The only instances I've seen have been students who are coming from another school district/country or private school and have already completed the equivalent of the "age appropriate" grade. For instance, one student a few years ago had gone to junior kindergarten in California, was incredibly bright, and was moved from regular K to 1st grade after one quarter. In the same vein, we had a student last year who came from a country that started the equivlaent to our K at age 6, not 5, so while the student's age put him in 4th grade, his parents requested he be placed in 3rd.

I wouldn't choose a school based on the potential for skipping a grade, though. In general, most MCPS schools will have the same policy and criteria for meriting this. The default is that students belong with their social peers and should be challenged within that setting, but if your child really needs to be moved to a higher grade to get appropriate education, it is not completely off the table.

There are many things you think you know better than others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are many things you think you know better than others.

PP, then please explain! What grades did the children you know skip from and to? What schools or parts of the county did this happen in? What do you know about the reasons for the grade-skipping? What do you know about why MCPS allowed these exceptions to their general policy of no grade-skipping except early entrance to K and early entrance to 1st grade? This would surely be very useful information for the OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. The work is in Rockville area, kind of in the middle of MoCo. Commute is not a big concern to us. We are looking for places under 800,000. We are also OK with condos or ths. I saw some posts talking about school initiated grade skipping. To me, it is a signal indicating how school recognizes learning differences. I would like to know this type of schools.

This is extremely rare in MCPS and getting rarer -- it's not something you should count on. MCPS is getting more and more uniform in how it instructs students and, with the exception of the highly gifte centers and middle/hs magnets, you will not find much differentiation. So keeping insisting that it is a criterion for you in making your decision doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are many things you think you know better than others.

PP, then please explain! What grades did the children you know skip from and to? What schools or parts of the county did this happen in? What do you know about the reasons for the grade-skipping? What do you know about why MCPS allowed these exceptions to their general policy of no grade-skipping except early entrance to K and early entrance to 1st grade? This would surely be very useful information for the OP.

Two cases were 4 years ago and one was 8 years ago in MCPS. They are not early entrance to K and 1G. I won't tell you the detail because I don't want to expose them in an anomymous internet board. I reacted to the pp (it might not be you) who said MCPS does not allow grade skipping and has some opinion of her/his that all kids should stay in their grade, and so on. It seems there are always exceptions and I think it is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are many things you think you know better than others.

PP, then please explain! What grades did the children you know skip from and to? What schools or parts of the county did this happen in? What do you know about the reasons for the grade-skipping? What do you know about why MCPS allowed these exceptions to their general policy of no grade-skipping except early entrance to K and early entrance to 1st grade? This would surely be very useful information for the OP.

Two cases were 4 years ago and one was 8 years ago in MCPS. They are not early entrance to K and 1G. I won't tell you the detail because I don't want to expose them in an anomymous internet board. I reacted to the pp (it might not be you) who said MCPS does not allow grade skipping and has some opinion of her/his that all kids should stay in their grade, and so on. It seems there are always exceptions and I think it is great.

Actually, you made this statement in response to MY post in which I explained that grade-skipping DOES occur, although rarely, and expressed doubt that you knew of "several kids" that had skipped up to three grades in elementary school. Your implication that I did not know what I was talking about was extremely rude, and did not even make sense.