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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Kindergarten-1st grade at CRES is wonderful. The teachers are kind and truly care about your child. Then, you get hit with all the aap news/updates  and that’s when parents start to freak out if their kid will get in or not because they make it so ambiguous and it all depends on if you got the right teacher in 2nd grade or not to give you a good evaluation. Unless of course you’re one of the Asian families, in which you’re pretty much golden for level 4. Look through any yearbook and you’ll see the obvious favoritism. Or, maybe it’s because Asians and some of the more savvy/tiger parents have learned how to work the system by enrolling in aap prep classes since kindergarten just to get in. Slim chances of getting in if you’re black or mixed unless you’re chosen as the token one. Again, see a yearbook. Profiling occurs rampantly and not just in race. Majority of kids picked are those older in their grade, therefore more mature, and those more extroverted and talkative. This school also goes strongly with cogat/NNAT scores even though they know the majority of kids with very high scores studied for the test. The truly gifted kids end up in gen ed wanting more challenge but not getting it because they weren’t deemed worthy by the system or they switch schools and save themselves years of frustration. [b]A significant amount of kids leave the school after 2nd and 3rd because of not getting in aap where they know the resources or good teachers lie. They know it’s bs and they rather go to a school that treats kids and parents with respect and dignity and put all students to high level of standard, not just a few golden ones. Interesting how a school pretty much dismisses half its population and think they don’t notice. Hmm, I wonder why parent involvement drops off drastically after 2nd and there’s no real community. [/b]So, yeah, go to this school if you couldn’t care less about academic equality or your kid’s self-esteem. Good luck with that. [/quote]

This is total BS. CRES had to add another 3rd grade teacher for gen ed this year.  None of my son's gen ed friends have left.  Oh, and gen ed is taught on the AAP curriculum.[/quote]

No, this is bs. I know at least 8 kids who left after 2nd bc their the parents were so tired of CRES, and that’s just who I know so surely there are more. CRES gets level 4 aap kids from a feeder school, adding kids 3rd grade, along with the normal amount of new kids who move into the area. It’s common knowledge the principal plays the numbers in order to try to get small class size. That’s probably the only thing he’s good for. Also,to your other point, gen ed kids only  get a minuscule amount of aap curriculum compared to the level 4 classes. Seriously, how hard would it be to just give all classes the same teaching resources so all kids can excel. Agree 1000% with everything the original poster said.

There will always be aap parents defending the school bc their kids are the ones who benefit from this messed up system at CRES. Fcps should have gotten rid of center schools when they were considering it. CRES is the most pretentious of them all thinking they’re above the rest and a role model to all schools.

How come no one has mentioned how poorly CRES ranks in sol scores compared to neighborhood schools?[/quote]

Probably because the SOL scores are quite good and there’s plenty of teaching to the test already.[/quote]

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