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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this true all lottery selected? Our school has local CES( one of the few mcps). My kid is selected as GT from 2nd grade gifted letter this year. Does my kid have a higher chance to be in local CES program at home school? Does my school have ELC program or not?

Do teacher's kids , PTA officer kids or active volunteer's kids  have higher chances in CES?[/quote]

Our school has never told us anything about ELC , CES, GT . There is lack of transparency issue. We are at Rachel Carson.[/quote]
In the past, it was easier to get into a local CES than a regional one; however enrollment has really dropped at RCES, so I don’t know any specifics about their CES anymore. How many classes are there for your child’s cohort and are there now 1 or 2 CES classes? Your child will only be competing for a spot with their RCES cohort.[/quote]

Because it's lottery CES also isn't the same as it once was. The local CES at our school typically excludes 99% because lotteries are random. Sure, many of the selected kids are in the 92%+ range but many are also in the 70% range because of experience factors. That's fine but the program at this point is silly. They need to rethink it.[/quote]
If pp’s child’s cohort at RCES has 5 classes per grade and one class per grade is CES, then even if every single child qualified to be in the lottery, they’d each have roughly a 20% chance of getting in. If there are only 4 classes per grade, they’d have a roughly 25% chance of getting in, worst case scenario. Those odds have got to be higher than students in the lottery for a regional CES.[/quote]

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