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[quote=Anonymous]For the OP's original question - yes she has a VERY valid concern that her child will get left behind. AA and Latino kids do worse at PBES than other schools. White kids don't always do well either and there is more than one white kid that gets "left out" of the huge CES classes that are not diverse. Its not wise to just the school based on a few anonymous PBES boosters with all evidence pointing in the opposite direction.

The best thing to do is to look at why whites and asian american kids do better and mimic those behaviors when possible. Its not inherent IQ and you don't need to be wealthy.

Many asian americans do not trust the school system to educate their child. They remember how much more rigorous and competitive their own K-12 education was in their home country and do not trust that the lower American standards will yield success for their children. They all know that racial discrimination against asians is rampant in higher education and the workplace. They teach their kids that they need to be twice as smart and twice as good to succeed. They will supplement with a rigorous at home education to fill the gaps. So forget pretending that making cupcakes is really the science of baking and get an account on IXL, sign up for Mathnasium or Kumon. These three programs all include assessments and you can make sure that your child is always 1-2 years of MCPS grade level and more importantly develops skills that MCPS fails to teach. Don't let your kid just read a humor based book for twenty minutes every night. Choose books from magnet or private school reading lists, have your child read more frequently and write a short essay answering one of the guided reading assessment questions that you can find on-line. Its a fallacy that Indian, Chinese, Russian, Korean etc etc families are spending hundreds or more on supplementing or drawing on their graduate degrees to do this. White parents who let their kids watch the Disney channel all the time and are too lazy to supplement tell themselves this.

Many white families ensure their kids success at a school like PBES in a very different way. They get ahead by being aggressive advocates. They never miss an opportunity to point out how their child is not challenged. They put themselves into positions of power within the school. They establish early on that if their kid isn't in the highest reading group that they will complain up the chain as far as they can go. The school knows by the time CES admissions comes up which parents will be a royal pain in the butt if their child isn't admitted. Those kids get admitted and are a BIG part of the reason why there are two rather than one CES class at PBES. Be ready to be that parent. Make sure at every parent teacher conference to stress how bored and unchallenged your child is in school. Join the PTA and support the principal but be ready to ppunce once things don't go well for your child.

PBES is battle for resources and to not left your child fall through the cracks. You have to supplement or you have to be a squeaky wheel.[/quote]

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