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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they’re getting rid of ELC why do the CES still exist? I thought ELC was to make sure student who didn’t win the lottery got enrichment at home school. So high scoring kids who didn’t get into the CES now get nothing? [/quote]

It’s so unfair. I don’t know who possibly could be supportive of the CES program now except for the families of students who get in. It makes no sense for MCPS to identify students who qualify for a program, then place them in a lottery for the program and only provide it to one segment of that population. Why can’t MCPS just provide the CES curriculum at all schools? What is the point of the magnets? Why can’t students just stay at their home schools and receive advanced instruction there? There are advanced learners at all MCPS schools. Keep them in their schools and teach them there!![/quote]

Well this is the paradigm they used for middle schools, but it is a total failure. English classes are honors for all with grade level and below text. HIGH classes for social studies are cohorted in some schools but in lots of others they just put everyone in the advanced class. Our school does cohort, but the only difference from the grade level course is  is the advanced students are supposed to read a book in social studieseach semester. That would mean they’re supposed to read 6 books by the end of middle school. My 8th grader read two books in 6th but one had been assigned/read as part of the 4th grade curriculum, so it was a repeat/waste. The 7th and 8th grade teachers just decided to skip the books entirely because they said they were “dry.” It would be great if enriched options were offered with fidelity at each school, but the reality is it will be watered down or non existent or eliminated. This was exactly what ELC was supposed to be. [/quote]

DP. That is exactly why ES school parents need to get involved in MS curriculum issues. It takes years to effect change. [/quote]

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