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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is in 4th grade at PBES - bright but didn't make it into CES. Here's what he said to me this morning: "Mom, I'm frustrated - there are so many kids in my class that don't take school seriously and they are getting all of us in trouble. It's like all the good kids are in CES now." Just about broke my heart. I'm all about expanding opportunities but I'm personally worried about kids like my son falling through the cracks at PBES - even more of a concern now that so many of the "strongest students" are removed from the general population.[/quote]

This is the danger with putting so many kids in the local center, right? If my math is right, that's about 20% of PBES 4th graders in the local center.

I'm sorry your son is struggling, PP. These are hard problems - expanding the programs is probably the right call district-wide, but the kids right on the cusp who may have just experienced a bad test day are going to have a harder time with most of their peers pulled out. [/quote]

PP here. Yes, exactly. Like I said - I'm glad so many kids have this opportunity but I'm not sure how to support my child who is on the cusp and totally capable of doing the work the CES kids are doing. He's in compacted math and he says that class is so much better because "I have a lot of CES kids in my math class." I'm not a squeaky wheel type parent but is there anything I can say to the teacher or principal that will help my son?[/quote]

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