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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Prior to opening the local CES, PBES completely dominated the regional one because it has so many high-flyers compared to the other schools in the area. I suspect half the reason the county did this was to create more opportunities for students at the other nearby schools.[/b]

Although I feel for the poster whose child feels excluded, I have spoken with several neighborhood parents whose children are not in the CES and had very different and positive experiences.

One parent was happy their bright child wasn’t in the program because they felt they lacked the maturity to handle the rigorous workload and would get discouraged.

The other parent has a bright articulate child but had admittedly left their child’s education entirely to MCPS. Before the school year began they expressed some misgivings but when I asked them about it a few months ago they felt the school had done an excellent job of creating a broader inclusive community. They said their earlier fears weren’t warranted.

In both cases, the parents were fine with this outcome and happy with the school. I guess it goes to show you can't please everyone and that's especially true with pretty much everything MCPS does.[/quote]

Well.....this is a little bit true and a little bit untrue. PBES did have a lot of kids at the regional center, but PBES is also substantially larger than any other elementary school that fed into that center. So, yes, they dominated the placements but they also had a pool of fourth graders that was twice or three times as large as any other school that sent kids to the regional center.

Giving PBES their own local center did free up spots for other elementary schools but it wasn't just that Takoma Park kids are inherently "higher flyers" than the other kids - they were pulling from a substantially larger pool.

It is also clear that the local center at PBES isn't just made up of kids who would have attended the regional center. The bar is lower, which is fine, but let's not pretend PBES actually has 50 kids per grade who would have attended the regional center.

/former PBES & CES parent

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