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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The CES program in general has gone down hill quite a bit since MCPS lowered the standards for admission. Just keep that in mind when you collect info on the experience of others. If their DC attended CES more than a few years ago, their experience isn't all that relevant to today's CES.[/quote]

This poster is correct.  More recently, there are more kids who need ‘support’ and some who, even with supports in place are just unable to keep up.

If you are reasonably happy with your home school, the CES might not be worth it.

MCPS has admitted that it lowered the standards at certain schools and there is definitely a difference in the abilities of students who are in the Barnsley CES now versus about 10 years ago.[/quote]

Please link to where MCPS “admitted” this or otherwise back up your unsubstantiated statement.[/quote]

It was at an in-person CES meeting that I attended.  There is a different MAP cut off to enter the CES lottery, depending on which school your kid attends and what the ESOL/FARMS percentage is at that ES.

Believe me or not, it makes no difference to me.  My kids are out of the CES now, so just sharing my experience with the OP.  [/quote]

Heading a different cutoff is well known. However that does not in any sense equate to lowering the standards of the class. I am not aware that MCPS has done this or “admitted” this.[/quote]

Of course it equates to lower standards for admission. That’s what happens when you “locally norm” MAP results from high FARMS schools such that kids getting a score in the 70th percentile nationwide are placed in the admissions pool because that score is in the top 85% of local schools. Previously, that score would have been at the bottom of the heap with no chance of admission. Now, the student has as much of a chance to be admitted as the one who scores in the very top 99th percentile. Not saying that’s a bad thing, but you can’t say that the changes didn’t lower the admission criteria and standards. [/quote]

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