Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Man, the PTA gifted committee worked so hard to get ELC everywhere and now apparently MCPS is getting rid of it just a few years later. Does that committee even do anything anymore? You would think they'd be more active in trying to fight this...
I think it's mainly a Facebook mom social club. They aren't serious about engaging with the community or recruiting help or executing projects.
Anonymous wrote:Wow. So unless you win the CES lottery you get a handful of enriched opportunities a week in ES that may or may not be delivered (there’s no mechanism to ensure delivery). And if you don’t win the much smaller middle school humanities lottery, you get no ELA enrichment in grades 6-8, and also nothing in grades 9-10 outside of magnets.
So if you’d like to attend your zoned school (or don’t win a random lottery), you essentially need to wait until junior year of high school for any meaningful differentiation. It’s amazing to me that they are required by law to meet the needs of gifted and talented students and they continue to find ways to try to force them to languish with curriculum that is unsuitable for their needs.
Anonymous wrote:Man, the PTA gifted committee worked so hard to get ELC everywhere and now apparently MCPS is getting rid of it just a few years later. Does that committee even do anything anymore? You would think they'd be more active in trying to fight this...
Anonymous wrote:Man, the PTA gifted committee worked so hard to get ELC everywhere and now apparently MCPS is getting rid of it just a few years later. Does that committee even do anything anymore? You would think they'd be more active in trying to fight this...
Anonymous wrote:That video is fantastic!
Going on and on about a huge list of brag points and "Harvard" programs (lol), after saying that at home school your teacher will figure something out, maybe, if she has time.
The secret, though, is that the only thing special about CES is the smart kids filling the classroom. It's impossible to replicate for a single smart kid somewhere else.