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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s really a bummer they can just do leveled classrooms anymore. Then kids stay in their homeschools and get enriched instruction there. Sorting by ability is out though, sadly. It’s a mess. [/quote]

Our ES essentially does this because of compacted math and ELC.  There are some kids in the one and not the other, but mostly it's a cohort.  And at the lower levels they do group kids of similar performance levels into classroom clusters so that they can small-group or enrich together.  Parents at our ES often actually tend to turn down CES invitations because so many things (to be clear, not all) from the CES curriculum are already going on inside our regular school.  Our admin also works at all levels (including the littles) to identify kids who are good candidates for enrichment or faster study and to meet their needs.

I bring this up because I think it is a good middle course between a not-feasible massive size expansion of the CES programs and the near impossibility of conducting a completely fair and constructive assessment of students from a wide variety of personal circumstances.  It requires, however, a really strong leadership team that is constantly re-inventing how to best serve the families.  How we do things at our school changes in big and little ways pretty much every year.[/quote]

This sounds like our ES.[/quote]

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