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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school is doing CKLA but the high achieving kids are grouped together. The teacher who has that class is really good and does some really creative stuff to make learning interesting. She is also very strict so I know the kids behave well for her.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm skeptical that CES is much different from home school.[/quote]

This will likely depend on what the home school is planning to do for literacy enrichment and whether they continue to offer the ELC or not.  What are folks hearing from your schools about that?  [/quote][/quote]

This is the new ELC model. Still a separate class for high achievers, but with CKLA and moves faster than "regular" classes to cover more content. Actually seems much better with old ELC curriculum.[/quote]

Are they actually competing the kids together? When I asked my school they said that there would be a weekly pull-out during the Flex Time for novel studies but not that it would be a separate class. That is mostly why I’m leaning towards accepting the CES spot over staying at the local school. The cohort is so important [/quote]

That's the other model for enrichment that is not ELC. (There are two models.) If there are enough kids to form a class, then next year at least, they should be offered the new ELC (which is based on CKLA but moves faster -- similar to how 4/5 and 5/6 math move faster).[/quote]

Okay, so just to confirm, you're saying central office has told schools that starting this coming fall, they have two choices: a weekly pull-out enrichment option, or a cohorted class doing CKLA in an accelerated way?  But they are not allowed to choose to offer the old version of ELC (the one that CES does) or any other enrichment option?  Is that right?[/quote]

Yes, that is what they are saying. But anyone who knows MCPS also knows that central office has "guidelines" that schools may or may not follow. So you will definitely want to confirm all this with your local school and the Office of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction.[/quote]

If this is true, parents should complain.  The whole point of ELC was to deliver the same level of curriculum and depth as is offered in the CES.  There is no reason that the curriculum used by CES and ELC should be different. [/quote]

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