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They moved WJ cluster out thereby opening more seats to those in the other three clusters because with WJ in the Barnsley HGC cluster, there were less spots available for those from the other clusters because WJ had a ton of kids going to Barnsely HGC in previous years.  Without this move, the other kids from the other clusters wouldn't get much of a chance. The move was so that those kids from the less well off areas get a chance.

Sure, it's nice that those kids have a chance, but let's not pretend why they did it, which was that it was much harder for those kids to compete with the WJ kids.

My DC went to Barnsely HGC with a ton of WJ kids. We are not in WJ cluster.[/quote]

+1 Let's stop pretending that all schools have equal numbers of high achieving children. Notice I didn't say deserving children. But it's a fact that the number of "highly qualified" children according to MCPS's own criteria is much higher at WJ, BCC and Whitman than at the other schools. [/quote]

Well if we are going to stop pretending than the whole point of the system is to get W kids in to help out the other school's metrics. If they don't care about the metrics, why do you care about helping so much? The admission criteria were set up to target UMC kids. The poor kids and reg middle class kids complained that they didn't get the shiny in their school and wanted to re-purpose the program to get them out of classes with even poorer kids.  Let them use their school how they want. [/quote]

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