G&T in Fairfax vs. MoCo

[Anonymous]

A poster on another thread said:
"Arlington/fairfax school have capacity to accelerate 10% of its student body to magnets or G&T. MoCo can only help 1% of its top students. "

I found that interesting (although don't know if it's true). True? If so, thoughts on whey this is since I would imagine other aspects of the systems between Fairfax and MoCo are likely pretty similar in terms of teacher count, overall spending, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A poster on another thread said:
"Arlington/fairfax school have capacity to accelerate 10% of its student body to magnets or G&T. MoCo can only help 1% of its top students. "

I found that interesting (although don't know if it's true). True? If so, thoughts on whey this is since I would imagine other aspects of the systems between Fairfax and MoCo are likely pretty similar in terms of teacher count, overall spending, etc.

I think it's just a decision by the school system as to who they will pull out of the regular curriculum vs trying to accomodate within the home school. FWIW I think that's probably a bit of an underestimate for MoCo-- I don't have the numbers handy but I'd guess it's closer to 5% at least for the grades 4-5 program, not sure about MS/HS (but it sounds as though the poster was thinking of ES?)

[Anonymous]

Arlington has no gifted magnets/programs. Fairfax has gifted ed for almost 20% and Moco is probably less than 5. As PP noted it just depends on the systems goals. If you are truly the top 1%, Fairfax's program geared to the top 20% is probably not as good for you as MoCo. On the other hand MoCo has many smart kids in regular classrooms. I would think this is generally fine accept that MoCo is moving more and more toward no differentiation so that means everyone gets only as much as the bottom can handle.