Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because CES parents are very vocal “haves” and most other parents are quiet “have nots.”

Maybe thats why they dont have too much
Should mcps fix their personalities too?

NP. I'm confused by the idea that the CES parents have a different personality with they're partially randomly selected. I'm no more vocal about anything than I was in April before my kid got in.

Anonymous wrote:Because CES parents are very vocal “haves” and most other parents are quiet “have nots.”

Maybe thats why they dont have too much
Should mcps fix their personalities too?

I’m waiting for the elementary program study. Between CES and the immersion programs, MCPS is spending a lot of money to serve a small portion of students. And none of it changes outcomes for the lowest performing students.

Anonymous wrote:There is an enriched CKLA curriculum for 4th and 5th in our home school. Remains to be seen how good it is. But it's there.

Remains to be seen if schools are even using it! My kid only got 30 minutes a week of supposed enrichment last year in 4th grade. No communication from the school about what 5th grade ELA is supposed to be (model 1 or model 2).

My kid’s friend got a last minute CES spot the week befofe school started and their parent showed me pics the teacher shared of a hands on project. I was shocked at how white the class was. Our home school demographics are SO different in 4th and 5th grade because the white and Asian kids get the CES lottery spots. There’s maybe 6 white kids in the entire 5th grade if you count multiracial students like my child.

If I could do it over again I would have bought in Fairfax County where the top 20 pct of kids have enriched academic programming at their home school. CES serves very few kids, and the MAP dependent selection criteria are not consistent with identification of gifted kids.

The CES should be reserved for kids who don't have peer group. The rest should be offered enrichment in their home school.

Why schools get to choose if they are going to offer the enriched class I've yet to understand. And it seems some on the BoE don't understand either.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amén- this happened to us- 98% percentile, told he was gifted. Lost lottery.

Then they even deleted the ELA curriculum.

This rationing of resources turns us all into stressed out crazy people.

Give me a schools voucher please! I’m ready to move to Trump land. Oops not really, not THAT crazy (yet).

The criteria used to be meeting criteria for highly gifted. A 98th %ile kid is a full standard deviation below that.

My kid is a 99 pct COGAT kid, yet was deemed not eligible for CES lottery since they don’t use COGAT in their determination. Go figure. My kid is super bored.

Its a good question and completely doesn't make sense.

Anonymous wrote:Why MCPS keeps the CES around when they’ve moved to a lottery model instead of just offering an enriched language arts class at each school? Do they not realize how terribly unfair the whole system is for students who qualify but don’t place in the program due to the lottery, especially as MCPS continues to tinker with the alternative language arts option (ELC and now the new curriculum), while leaving the CES curriculum untouched?

This again?
Does anything mcps do make sense? Please list. It is helpful to know what they are doing right and what they are not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amén- this happened to us- 98% percentile, told he was gifted. Lost lottery.

Then they even deleted the ELA curriculum.

This rationing of resources turns us all into stressed out crazy people.

Give me a schools voucher please! I’m ready to move to Trump land. Oops not really, not THAT crazy (yet).

The criteria used to be meeting criteria for highly gifted. A 98th %ile kid is a full standard deviation below that.

Sorry, that doesn't math. Except maybe in a place like Lake Wobegon.

Anonymous wrote:Amén- this happened to us- 98% percentile, told he was gifted. Lost lottery.

Then they even deleted the ELA curriculum.

This rationing of resources turns us all into stressed out crazy people.

Give me a schools voucher please! I’m ready to move to Trump land. Oops not really, not THAT crazy (yet).

The criteria used to be meeting criteria for highly gifted. A 98th %ile kid is a full standard deviation below that.