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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an upper elementary teacher do the lottery impacts me in a different way than parents. My issue is that CES was developed as a place for kids who didn’t have a peer group at their home schools, but they also helped teachers by taking those outliers out of our classes. With the lottery system, it is not pulling those outliers. Instead, it is just pulling a few random higher students. We are still needing to meet the needs of any outliers who are not chosen AND those outliers still do not have a peer group. At this point, I don’t even understand the purpose of the program.[/quote]

This is another example of why teachers are burning out and the needs of students are not met. [/quote]

+1000 my DC is one of those outliers and really needs to be in a program where she can be challenged. such a program does not exist in her current ES and she's only one of less than a handful of students like that in her school. MCPS needs to expand CES and admit only those students without a peer group at their schools, as well as expanding accelerated programs at home schools. the lack of rigor of the ES curriculum is frustrating and explains the low test scores of our district, not to mention American students in general. Schools should not be teaching at a pace that's appropriate only for the most remedial students of the class.[/quote]

But the idea that teachers stick in the "slow lane" because of "remedial students" has never been true. Once upon a time America was full of one room school houses with teachers handling all grades and ages at once. And this is that magical time in the past when the USA was the undisputed leader in everything everywhere in the world.

Will you ever recognize that your "dumbed down" "remedial students" "slowed pace" argument just doesn't hold water????[/quote]

Both Eureka and Benchmark are taught as full class lessons. Teachers have been told not to use small group instruction. So the teacher does need to teach to the majority…[/quote]

at our ES kids are grouped into grade level or compacted[/quote]
Shh! What happens at Ws stays at Ws.[/quote]

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