When did they change in pool to vary per school?

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Anonymous wrote:Mark my words, FCPS will ultimately do away with the center model. They’re moving to local level IV in every elementary, that will serve the top 10% in each school.

Under the old model, almost no one from Title One schools was in-pool, which meant that smart kids with less involved parents and less enriching environments were falling through the cracks.

We used to live in a high farms neighborhood and the school didn’t have enough kids to have an AAP class. The center school pulled from like 10 elementary and the AAP center was strong.

Dragging people down from the top won’t necessarily help the people at the bottom.

What’s your research to support this? Or is this just you opining on a Saturday morning?

I don’t think it is fair to have a high cut off in a school like McLean or Oakton and let lesser kids in in Annandale or Alexandria. While it is fine to offer more spots to kids who normally would not be in pool in high FARMs school, I don’t think it is right to cut a kid in McLean with higher scores.

You are contradicting yourself. Should a student who is in the top tier of his school be denied acceptance for a gifted program at his school, because there are lots of students scoring higher than him at other schools in the county or the country?

New poster: if the curriculum is the same that was provided to most kids hitting benchmark scores but now some of those kids are denied entry merely because others scored higher, I don’t think that’s right. I know it’s a “wholistic” process to determine who is admitted, but if a kid gets a 134 on the cogat and is now denied entry when:

- the curriculum is the same as it was before this new “in pool” benchmark score

- other kids in the county with lower scores are admitted simply because they are the best at that school, but not necessarily the best in FCPS

It appears unfair. If you’re instead offering an even more advanced curriculum because now scores are higher for being “in pool,” that’s different.

Regardless of what the curriculum is on paper, the reality is things will move slower at the school with lower scoring students, unless the curriculum is itself very easy and they won't be able to move faster at the more capable school.