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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am not the PP here, but have also heard about problems in the HGC at CCES over the last few years.  The number of students admitted to the Takoma Park MS Math/Science magnet from CCES has gone down tremendously and steadily over the last 4 years.  It's not clear to me why that is.  I had a child in the program several years ago.  We were quite happy at that time; math acceleration was regularly offered to HGC students in a range from on grade level to 3 grades ahead.  Now, with the change to C2.0, I don't know what math is being offered in the HGC.  I do know that on the home school side of CCES all students who had been accelerated under C2.0 were taken off acceleration and put back on grade level no matter how far ahead they had been.  Then last year, some students were placed in the new compacted C2.0 4/5/6 math compacted into grades 4 and 5.  I am sure these changes affected the HGC as well, since students in the home school program had often been mixed with HGC students in math in order to make full(er) classes so that more advanced levels could be offered.  Many parents at CCES protested the deceleration, but the principal refused to budge.  She is very difficult to work with.[/quote]

All of this is so interesting.  I concur with the others who have said that the teaching at CCES HGC is very disappointing in 4th grade (everyone says the 5th grade teachers are great).  You would think it would be easy to find fantastic and gifted teachers to teach these kids, but I think the principal is to blame for (1) not being able to attract talent and (2) refusing to do anything about the problems that have persisted for years.  Parents have complained about this teacher every year she has been there (approx 3-4 years) and the principal does nothing.  The most problematic teacher teaches ALL the HGC students in math, and it doesn't surprise me to hear that the acceptances to Takoma have gone down from CCES given what my kid's 4th grade math test scores looked like (compared to other years, a clear anomaly).  This teacher is also prone to yelling at or humiliating kids publicly.  We thought our kid's issues were unique, until we talked to other parents and learned the extent of the problem.  But given how competitive the admissions are for HGC, who wants to speak up?[/quote]

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