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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only glitch in the TPES to PBES for STEM/Math kids is 3rd grade at Piney Branch. Currently, they do differentiation within the classroom, which means usually the top math kids get worksheets and hardly any time with the teacher. in 4th they can start 4/5 math, and be with their math loving peers in a classroom. Hopefully PBES will change their structure this year and offer enriched math classes based on math scores/ability for 3rd grade. Especially since TPES has done a good job this year of challenging their top 2nd grade math students. It would be hard for those students to go from exciting above grade level project based learning to just sitting and completing worksheets at PBES for all of 3rd grade.[/quote]

PBES also has a dedicated STEM teacher and the local CES includes enriched science accommodates a lot more kids than the regional.

My 3rd grader at PBES picked up where they left off at TPES. They've recently worked on mixed numbers and long division. My understanding is these are topics normally reserved for compacted math. [/quote]

Well, the science my CES 4th grader received at PBES has been minimal. Mostly projects they do on their own, and not much content covered in the classroom. Also, PBES may lose funding for their STEM teacher, so meh on the science aspect of PBES.[/quote]

It's even worse at our W feeder. Although they use the same science curriculum, the classes are larger and there isn't a dedicated STEM teacher. [/quote]

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