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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the elimination of ELC came as a surprise to everyone, including the MCCPTA gifted committee, who had pushed very hard to get ELC rolled out in every single ES in the county.

I do think a new group of parents need to step up and start advocating on this issue. It wouldn't even be that hard because offering ELC should be cost neutral - you have the same number of teachers and students, you just cohort the highly able learners for reading in 4th and 5th grades. [/quote]

I was one of the people who previously sent an email to our principal urging to roll out of ELC at our elementary school. I would like to ask the parents whose children have attended ELC for the past years: Has ELC truly been beneficial for gifted children who were not placed CES? While I'm uncertain about other aspects, the MAP-R test, which is a measurable data point, my child's score decreased after the 3rd grade spring test and did not improve throughout 4th and 5th grades. It only went back up in the final 5th grade spring test. So I wouldn't feel any regret even if my other younger child does not take ELC classes in the future. Furthermore, I have been satisfied with the CKLA curriculum I've seen so far, and the material for 4th and 5th grades appears sufficiently challenging. [b]As long as they offer separate advanced level classes using CKLA, I'm fine with it. [/b][/quote]

Agre with this. It is the cohorting that matters. I actually don't think ELC material was great. MCPS came up with it on its own--we know they are not good curriculum writers. Using CKLA and moving at a faster pace to cover more content in a cohorted class sounds better to me. [/quote]

But they aren't doing this. They're doing 30 minute "enrichment" time. [/quote]

No - schools are told that if they have enough students to form a stand-alone class they are expected to do that. Now if I had a kid who was on the CES waitlist I absolutely would be meeting with my home school’s leadership to make sure that happens, because there is clearly a disconnect between what central office says and what schools do. But that is what central office is saying, and if you hear from schools that they are not doing that, then I would be in tough with the ES English team in central office and AEI to request that they work with your school. [/quote]

Our school will have an advanced cohort for 5th grade next year because it was already set up from ELC this year. The 4th graders will NOT have an advanced cohort and will pretty much just get enrichment during WIN time. Our principal said that they think the county is moving away from the advanced cohort in general. Is that true? I have no idea but please don’t assume that advanced cohort will be there. I don’t understand this push aside from not having to deal with angry parents whose children didn’t get in. If you advocated against ELC without understanding that losing the cohort was a likely outcome you seriously shot yourself and your kid in the foot.

Our ELC experience was amazing. I don’t particularly care how it showed up in MAP scores, my kid was already reading so many years ahead I don’t really think anything was going to move the neethat much. I think a big strength of the ELC curriculum was in the writing and I don’t really wind that would show up in a standardized test. I think you very likely just had a bad teacher. [/quote]

I would call central office to discuss. WIN/FIT enrichment is supposed to be over and above enrichment offered in class, either in a cohorted class if there are enough students or in a regular class through reading groups (which is harder for the teacher but is the only option when you don’t have enough students to form a class). [/quote]

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