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[quote=Anonymous]Since parent volunteers are not allowed in the building much this year, it really would be hard to say how things are going.  However, DS’s teacher repeatedly says this might be her best class yet  comments on how well behaved the class is. I don’t know why - maybe to reassure parents?  Positive reinforcement?  She definitely did not say that with my older (pre 2018) child LOL (Also am pretty sure I outed myself now in case she is reading this).  But I can say the classmates are all great and the curriculum is the same as when my older daughter was in the program (except that math is now Eureka but math technically is not “Center” math.). I think though I can’t be sure that the age skews higher.  I only think that based on my child’s friends but I don’t have everyone’s ages obviously. However it would make sense.  The cogAT  was eliminated and used to be age adjusted by month so it used to pick up on the fact that a child might be a full year or more than classmates and, all other things being equal, that child would be more likely to be selected than a child a year older.  There are more students from CCES too - possibly because more parents opted not to do the bus commute in this covid year so they went deeper into waitpool and local students were more likely to say yes.  That has been great for us as CCES is our home school.  What I cannot tell is whether the Center is reaching students who really really needed the Center - that top 1 or 2 percent.  I dorn’t know the classmates enough this year because of the pandemic.  But in my older child’s year, there were definitely some outliers at the high end.  Also the rumor (not sure if true) was that the old (pre-2018) selection process did tend to pick quirkier kids who might be isolated at their home school.  Not sure how true that is but anecdotally it did seem to make sense.  There also were kids who were actually doing poorly in grades before the Center who excelled at the Center once appropriately challenged.  I doubt they are in this year’s class because there was no cogAT to identify them and grades/MAPs were required.  I remember parents saying the Center saved their children.  But I do wonder if that is why the Center teacher has noted the behavior difference.  Which may be great for the teacher but I worry about those kids in every class that really needed this program.  I also have compared the Center curriculum to ELC at North Chevy Chase and it seems to be the same so I also would consider if your home school has ELC.  Finally, I agree that the percentile threshold generally matched prior averages (with possible exception of the different thresholds for FARMs and Spec Ed students but I think they adjusted for that in the past too but not publicly).  The difference is the cogAT not being available.

Standards for grading all seem to be similar to the past too.  [/quote]

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