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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a significant number of 3rd graders who were offered a spot at CES this year. Several of my kids friends. Did they accept an unusually large group of kids this year anticipating that many would decline since there’s really no value in going to a CES anymore? Kids can get all the same enrichment at their home schools. [/quote]

Nope, you just know a lot of lucky kids. I know of one kid in my kid's circle who got a spot, though most were in the lottery. They can't offer more spots than they have. It's not an airline.[/quote]

It is such a great program. Too bad they can't offer it to more students.[/quote]

At one time I would have agreed with this. But what I saw in the Title I school where I teach, expanding access to the CES by opening more centers was a bit of a double edged sword. More students got access, which was first and foremost the proper priority. We sent more kids than ever before. But at the same time, it depleted our 4th and 5th grades. Kids who were on the cusp, or had a spark but weren't quite at CES level, were left behind with no academic peers. Especially our newcomer ESOL students, many of whom had skills in their home language and had been stellar students before, but couldn't yet perform at that level in English. I saw many of them hating school because they had "no friends," because the smart motivated kids were gone.

With compacted math and now ELC, my school is going to be able to give these students the enrichment they need, and from my brief sample (meaning, looking up the kids who got spots and asking them if their parents had talked about a new school next year), most of the parents are keeping their kids at their home school. Again, completely non-scientific, but I would not have received those answers a few years ago. If a kid got a spot, the parents moved heaven and earth to make it work.[/quote]

I find it hard to believe that sending 2-3 kids to CES is having that much of an impact. Nevertheless, if they opened more centers those kids with no peers would be able to join their friends in the program.[/quote]

When the program expanded, it was more like 7-10 students, and yes it made an impact. Why open more centers when the programming can be made available at every school?[/quote]

I agree. I think MCPS should offer programming at home schools with ELC in a separate class. Regional centers should be reserved for schools that need to band together because there are not enough peers to have a standalone class in a school.[/quote]

Especially at schools where the parents pay a lot of property taxes because their children deserve better educations.[/quote]

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