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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is op. Thank you for these information. My 4th grader is great at academic, and he does not mind doing extras on math in higher level. His reading is above level, and writing is just okay. Magnet program mentions here refer to enriched classes within school, right? He has been 99% on all map tests throughout school years and his current school is not competitive in academic. I assume it is likely he may do fine if we make the move, and facing some competition might be a great thing to him. He is not well behaved and easily distracted in class, and that could be a problem. He does not need to pay much attention in class because he knows the matetials ahead. If there are challenges, he could sit still for hours listening to teachers. My concern is also that he may not ne well liked due to his distraction behavior and the school is a lot smaller than I thought to be.

My 2nd grader is falling behind on everything like math, reading and writing. Their current school has 900+ to 1000 kids. There are limited resources from teacher to focus on him for improvement or working with him 1:1. If I make the move to Cold Spring ES, what might be the possible end results for this 2nd grader? Good move or bad move for him.

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I wanted to clarify for you that your child will not be in the magnet unless he applied as a 3rd grader. It is highly competitive. The magnet kids had little interaction with neighborhood kids unless at recess when we were there.  Many of the non-magnet students are still 99% so your child will have peers who are also gifted and they will differentiate for math. But gifted kids are so common they might not stand out here like at your other school.

Your younger child might get frustrated here. Do they have an IEP?  We found the teachers very caring but they didn’t have a lot of time to support our son who struggled in early grades. That support is provided by a resource teacher and para educators for kids with IEPs. We found the school didn’t have enough trained staffing in that area though the staff they had at the time tried their best. Sometimes title 1 and focus schools are actually better equipped. We did private intervention as did most people we knew. [/quote]

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