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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Define qualified...if you want to have a program for the top students, there is always a group at the top.  [/quote]
This is the fundamental misunderstanding of the CES program. It is not supposed to be for the "top students" in the school system. It was designed to meet the academic needs of students whose needs couldn't be met in their home elementary school. This really doesn't mean the top academic performers, it means students who learn differently, at a faster pace than their peers, and who thrive on independence and complex thinking. As more and more students over the years demonstrated they would benefit from the enriched curriculum, they began offering that curriculum at home schools, rather than shipping an entire class of 4th graders to a different school.

If parents stopped treating the CES as a coveted prize to be won by a select few students, and instead focused on advocating for better enriched curriculum (and GT trained teachers) at their school, everyone would be better off.[/quote]

+1 If most students are at a more accelerated pace, the teacher can go through the curriculum quicker. But if it's like at my DC's school where she's one of a tiny group of more advanced students, so that the teacher has to go at a slower pace, it makes more sense that tiny group of students who are not being challenged at all to get sent to an accelerated program.

Also, the lottery is in place in part because demand far exceeds supply, and opens up the program to students whose parents or guardians are not as much "in the know." Diversity benefits the accelerated program. [/quote]

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