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[quote=Anonymous]That's really interesting, PP, thank you for that response.

I had never perceived that the administration (I assume you mean the school admin) to be more focused on the SI program -- they seem pretty even-handed to me but that might just be my own limited experience with my own kids.   I do think it's a shame that they stopped mixing the classes for specials, etc.  Under the previous principal (who probably only the fifth grade parents remember!) they split classes and recombined them for things like art and music.

Is it really true that neighborhood kids leave because the SI program limits space available to them?  Are kids transferring successfully to RHPS?  I had not heard that.  Are the EA classes so full that transfers would be allowed on that basis?

As for the reading level issue, that's interesting because I have definitely felt the same way about SI reading classes.  And for the first few years, the SI classes are huge compared to the EA.  I wonder how much is just a function of MCPS' poor approach to differentiation in general.  I think this is probably true at most elementary schools in the county, except for the ones in the very western part who don't have many ELL students.

But do you really think if SI went away that more neighborhood kids would go to RCF?  I would think it would be the opposite -- that the overall test scores of the school would go down and it would be seen as even less desirable by the more affluent Chevy Chase parents in the neighborhood.

Finally, about the PTA meetings -- I stopped going a couple of years ago when I also perceived that they were useless.  But for me, it was a new theme of "can't we all just get along" and trying to repair a rift between EA and SI that I personally had never experienced.   It seemed to me that we could have worked towards some concrete goals for the school that would have brought us together.   I also got tired of the "toe the MCPS line" approach of the school administration when they made presentations in the PTA meetings.  I felt that I could do more in my children's classrooms and by volunteering directly with the teachers.

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