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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every student should have access to ELC.

Raise the bar. Aim higher. Challenge students.

The dumbing down to the lowest common denominator has ruined mcps. We used to be an enviable school district and we have fallen so far.

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Umm, no.  It’s okay for kids to need different things.  The on level curriculum is appropriately challenging.  [b]That some kids need something different is fine.[/b]  [/quote]

DP.  Only fine if those needs are met.

In a way, I agree with the PP that anyone should have [i]access[/i].  That doesn't mean everyone should be pushed into it, and families should be seen as partners with teachers/schools in making the decision to pursue it for a student.

Some might be on the fence.  If they determine the challenge is too much, there should be a relatively no-harm/no-foul way to move back to on-level/standard curriculum.  But the challenge, if not too overwhelming, can allow the kind of stretching that yields many benefits down the road, and that is not exclusive to the tippy-top of the ability scale (which varies over time/developmental years, anyway, but can get reinforced in a combination virtuous/vicious cycle if stretching opportunities are limited only to those previously identified).

To reiterate, though, it would be a failure to make curricular & implementation decisions that either fail to offer robust enrichment/acceleration in the first place or that water down such by encouraging undifferentiated teaching that aims to hit only the capability levels of those who might struggle with more rigorous application.[/quote]

[b]This is already done at the school level with ELC.[/b] But there is always folks trying to push their kid into it or other advance classes.  I’m it’s like being On-Level is a dirty word.[/quote]

I think this is the point of the concern.

If ELC, which took so long to arrange/roll out, goes away in favor of CKLA, and if the latter doesn't offer similar means of addressing the need, then it can't get done at the school level.

Separately, the different ways schools select for/degrees to which schools provide ELC (or CKLA) means that students at one school might have an excellent experience with it while similar students at another school might not.[/quote]

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