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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]

The problem with the PP is they fail to grasp that it's a diverse school with 35% FARMS. This impacts simple averages used by sites like school digger. Nevertheless, the high-achieving cohort is as strong or stronger than any school in the county. [/quote]

Sort of. I'm the parent of a Black kid at PBES and I'm acutely aware that one of the factors that impacts the schools's scores on metrics like the Maryland Report Card is the the achievement gap between white kids and Black/Latino kids, and non-FARMS and FARMS kids.

Kids of color and poor/working class kids do worse at PBES than at most other schools, even in Silver Spring. If you compare Black and Latino kids at PBES with Black and Latino kids at nearby schools, it appears something is going wrong at PBES. White and Asian kids do well everywhere, but Black and Latino kids do worse. It's troubling both from an ethical standpoint (are these our TP values) and as a parent. [/quote]

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