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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps they're taking into account whether a cohort for these students already exists at the home middle school, and schools like Frost, CJ and Hoover have those strong cohorts already? I know that this is now of the factors being used at for the 4th grade CES selection process.[/quote]

This makes no sense to me as a 2X CES parent. One of the factors in accepting my kids to CES was the lack of an adequate cohort at our home elementary (which is a W school feeder and generally well regarded). Plus, no matter the "cohort," except for math there's very little accelerated instruction opportunity at the home middle school (which my oldest kid attended, so I know all about the joke that "honors" classes are).

If our kids needed CES for lack of an adequate cohort, then *don't* need magnet middle school because that same group of kids now is an adequate cohort, then something is weird.

And generally I believe that [b]the middle school magnet curricula should be made much more widely available at home middle schools. The problem is that so many high-achieving kids are just marking time in middle school. [b]What a waste of three years[/b[/b]].[/quote]

Couldn't agree with you more. So those three years are -- again -- on the parents to supplement (CTY, Mathnasium, The Art of Problem Solving, etc). [/quote]

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