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[quote=Anonymous]Oy vey. This is rapidly devolving into the same arguments about whether MCPS is going to heck, just like every other thread here. I should have known better. :/

Oh, well. I was going to share things like... well, for the Center...

At that time (late 80s), AS I RECALL:

-It was for 4th-6th grades, as 6th was still a part of ES.

-We had our grade-level teachers for most of the day, especially for reading and so on-- but the 4th grade teacher taught science to all of the grades (in a rotation), the 5th grade taught us all social studies, and 6th, math-- for all three years.

-I think MCPS had 3 "Areas" (do they... still divide the county this way?), basically 1) downcounty east, 2) downcounty/midcounty west and 3) upcounty. Each area had one CHG school, and each CHG school was a regular school, but with one class each of CHG students, about 24 per class. So in the Center program, countywide, total, there were only about 70-80 kids per grade. I guess about 1% of the total students at the time in those grades.

-I'm pretty sure my parents had to apply, and maybe have me tested in some way, specifically for the program. But I think part of admission could be based on privately-tested IQ scores, which I had. I remember hearing that the IQ cutoff was 135 (minimum, just to be considered).

Etc.

-OP [/quote]

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