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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]When our kid was in PBES 4th grade CES they were given choices of what books to read[/quote]

This is interesting.  My kid was in 4th Grade CES at Piney Branch, so not sure what this parent is talking about.  The kids were not permitted to select any book they wanted (at least not my kid).  It is also true that the spelling lists were very different between the two groups as well.[/quote]

My kid was also in PBES CES for 4th and they had a choice of three books and my kid usually got their #1 choice. In 5th, there was no choice of books and everyone read the same one. 
In 4th there were two spelling lists: very difficult and not difficult at all (totally making this up, but think words like pneumonic vs. plywood). In 5th there was no "spelling" but they did some latin thing.

We were part of the large cohort (2 classes) so I wonder if they caved to admit more kids over the summer and then realized that not all could actually handle the CES programming (and why should they...if CES programming is truly challenging and for gifted kids, then ~20% of a grade should not be able to cut it). That certainly seemed to be the case. No offense intended, but an observation based on the conflict and strife that went down the year before last. [/quote]

My child just finished the 4th grade CES at PBES. They also got to choose from 3 books. They don't have sufficient copies of all books for every kid but in practice, they only didn't get their first choice once. As to the year with two classes, I think that was part of the problem but I think it also had impact on the students not in the program. The standards were reasonably high last year. I knew of one family whose student was rejected with a 98% cogat. The families who I know who were admitted were all 99% across the board.[/quote]

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