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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree that you can ask the Gifted Education Committee. When MCPS tried to take away CM a few years ago, they launched a campaign to keep it. MCPS kept it in place but tightened criteria for placement. [/quote]
As they should.

My DC was the first class to take CM.  There were only a handful of kids who really needed that enrichment.

A few years later, after many parents complained and pushed for their kids to go to CM, the class became huge. I volunteered a few times, and some of those kids definitely did not belong in CM.  I felt that my own DC#2 would've been better off in an on track math class, but during parent teacher conference, the teacher said that unfortunately, the "on track" math class now had so few kids, and that it was so much slower, that my DC would probably not be served in that class and would be bored.  So we kept DC in CM, but I still think DC would've been better off in a true on track math class, but at the time, there was only CM and the "slower" track.

It was indeed "honors for all" type of scenario.  [/quote]

That’s a west county problem.   At our school, there are ten kids in 5/6 CM in a grade that contains about 90 kids.  [/quote]

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