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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at PBES on school digger it ranks 300 while many non-CES ES schools in higher performing areas are in the top 10. PBES did pretty badly on the MD report card too. I've also heard that the CES program isn't as strong as it is elsewhere. I'm not sure if its the over crowding or something else but something is always off at PBES. [/quote]

The 4th grade CES curriculum is extremely challenging at PBES. The 5th grade teacher this year seems less set on pushing the CES curriculum and appears to pick and choose what he teaches in contrast to last year where the students were challenged to a very high level. Our 5th grader has much less classwork and homework than last year - by leaps and bounds....He's happy, but it is hard to get over the idea that 5th should be more challenging than 4th....[/quote]

My PBES CES fifth-grader is equally or more challenged this year than last.  The teacher seems to place more importance on classwork than on homework, which is as it should be (IMO).

The fifth grade teacher is far more experienced than the fourth grade one, fwiw.[/quote]

Fascinating.  Same school. Same class. Same teacher, but completely different experiences. [/quote]

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