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Anonymous wrote:OP here--to be clear, I'm totally fine with my kid not going to CES. I prefer my home school. I'm just questioning the value of it if you're able to get enrichment through your home school. Also it seems weird that the staff at my home school are basically encouraging kids to go to the CES when wouldn't that drive down their own staff needs? Maybe they do want to get rid of the parents more than the kids...

The enrichment you think your kid will get is not = to a CES. A couple of other threads on this topic came up in last few months on dcum. Yes, to weed parents.

So what are you getting at CES? And is it really worth it for two years?

Anonymous wrote:OP here--to be clear, I'm totally fine with my kid not going to CES. I prefer my home school. I'm just questioning the value of it if you're able to get enrichment through your home school. Also it seems weird that the staff at my home school are basically encouraging kids to go to the CES when wouldn't that drive down their own staff needs? Maybe they do want to get rid of the parents more than the kids...

The enrichment you think your kid will get is not = to a CES. A couple of other threads on this topic came up in last few months on dcum. Yes, to weed parents.

Anonymous wrote:OP here--to be clear, I'm totally fine with my kid not going to CES. I prefer my home school. I'm just questioning the value of it if you're able to get enrichment through your home school. Also it seems weird that the staff at my home school are basically encouraging kids to go to the CES when wouldn't that drive down their own staff needs? Maybe they do want to get rid of the parents more than the kids...

Of course, it is to rid of the parents even if little Larla is the sweetest as can be.

Anonymous wrote:There are schools with ELC for literally everybody? Like literally no students are on-level or below?

Yup--my school. not great when you have a kid with dyslexia.

OP here--to be clear, I'm totally fine with my kid not going to CES. I prefer my home school. I'm just questioning the value of it if you're able to get enrichment through your home school. Also it seems weird that the staff at my home school are basically encouraging kids to go to the CES when wouldn't that drive down their own staff needs? Maybe they do want to get rid of the parents more than the kids...

IT, all of it is a joke in MCPS. For ex, in MS, students on the "advanced" path may read an extra book or two in what MCPS created a 'Global Humanities' track for Social Studies to please the families of "advanced" (code: non colored) students. The books they read in this advanced track are same ones students read in a CES. If you don't want to bother with hiring an attorney, prepare to work with your kid to do the same thing students in a CES are doing academically, such as have your kid read same books as CES and work on same assignments (available on threads on this forum and elsewhere).

There are schools with ELC for literally everybody? Like literally no students are on-level or below?

Anonymous wrote:But what is the point of it? If you can get ELC at your home school who cares? It doesn't guarantee you anything past 5th grade. you'd still have to apply for a middle school or high school magnet. My daughter's friend is in IB--never went to CES. The whole program seems like a joke.

to weed out PARENTS. They send kids with THOSE kinda parents off to a CES. If you feel your child deserves to go to a CES, hire an attorney, review the data to find out why your kid is not going. ELC at home school is not comparable.

But what is the point of it? If you can get ELC at your home school who cares? It doesn't guarantee you anything past 5th grade. you'd still have to apply for a middle school or high school magnet. My daughter's friend is in IB--never went to CES. The whole program seems like a joke.

And if you are an attorney, golden ticket - your kid is going to a CES! If you aren't, get your kid to be buddies, err BFF, with a kid that has a lawyer parent/s.

Anonymous wrote:How many schools don't have the ELC?

I don't think all ES have ELC for all their 4th and 5th graders. Ours happens to for all classes but I think it might still be only certain classes in other schools.

Anonymous wrote:It's the students' race. Duh.

OP here--I know. and the fact that our CES school has low enrollment so they're desperately trying to recruit kids (of certain demographics). It's so obvious.

It's the students' race. Duh.

How many schools don't have the ELC?

My ES has ELC for all 4th and 5th graders yet kids are still being targeted from the lottery to enroll in our local CES (Coldspring). Why? Seems ridiculous and duplicative. They should be targeting kids at schools that don't offer ELC. As a result, we'll lose kids from our school and therefore staff if we have a lower student population and with cuts you betcha we'll be cut staff. Unreal