These are exactly the type of kids that should not be pushed into a CES program. Kids that belong in a CES program are the ones that thrive on intensive writing assignments and love doing them. The kids that belong in the CES program are the ones who would be reading for hours whether it was required homework or not.

Intelligent children may or may not have discipline and to varying degrees.

Too many parents see the CES as a way to get away from the lower performing kids and there is too much pressure on the kids to expand the CES program in certain schools to appease these parental demands. These parents then turn around and complain that the workload is too intensive. If the program reduces the workload and waters down the program to appease them then it really isn't a gifted center anymore.

What kind of idiot puts intensive workload on fourth and fifth graders??? Worse, what kind of psychopathic kid is that??? You're a serious sicko...

CES is supposed to be creative, fun, exciting! Not "pressure" "workload" "intensive". You're a scary person. I hope you're not a PBES teacher. If so, you need to be fired.

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Anonymous wrote:Umm its not accurate at all. The CES PBES has many kids way below the mid 90s.

Parents reported on this board that kids with high 97%+ were waitlisted. The only documented acceptances were 99%.

My DD who is a current 3rd grader at PBES socred 97% nationally on the CogAT and had 220s on their MAP-R was waitlisted as were other similar children.

So now she is in class with the other local kids but with most of the smart middle class kids taken out. That sounds great, lucky you

There were many very smart kids who were not invited to the program. Like I posted earlier 75% of DC's third-grade reading group at level X were waitlisted. I have no idea what their test scores are but I do know many children with MAP-R scores in the 220s and 97%+ CogAT scores that were also waitlisted this year.

One my DC's classmates scored 228 on their MAP-R in winter of 3rd and also wasn't invited to the local CES. Seems like many high performing kids aren't not in the local program next year. Makes you wonder why there aren't more classes this year.