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[quote=Anonymous]MCPS teacher here (on maternity leave and the kid is asleep, so what else would I be doing with my spare time)... I can tell you that the "rules" for COSA approvals are very strange and it's pretty much a crapshoot.  It all depends on which schools are involved, much more so than your actual reasons.  For example (and this is not my only experience with COSAs, but the one I always think of), a few years ago, back when the budget first started to see major cuts and class size was increased (maybe 2009?), I taught part-time at a school that was on the verge of losing a classroom.  We were one student over the amount needed to warrant this extra class in a particular grade, meaning if we had one less student in that grade, we would have an allocation for only two classes instead of three.  Our principal warned the staff that one student in that grade had applied for a COSA to move another school, and if the allocation information was given to the "decision makers," it would be granted.

Guess what happened... I say, make the best case you can, but chances are whether or not you are approved has pretty much nothing to do with you.[/quote]

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