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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe they ran the demographic numbers against the identified pool and found that the criteria they had adopted for the last two years was so easily influenced by families with means that they weren't getting the same mix they had seen last year, when families didn't have the criteria before their children were past them (and the year before, when the criteria were much broader -- necessarily due to pandemic impact -- making them easy to meet but harder to game).

Maybe, due to a probabilistic anomaly, the lottery run resulted in something so unrepresentative of the pool that they had to ask for permission to re-run it.

Maybe they have projected enrollments in advanced courses at local middle schools and found that there aren't enough teachers able to fill the need, requiring a scramble to put some alternative in place.

Maybe upper management is considering current-year changes based on critiques that have been proffered.  Wait...who am I kidding, here?!?  Maybe upper management is having central office administrators take time to identify whichever aspects of the pool/lottery data would support their [i]not[/i] having to address the critiques as the results come out.

Or maybe, just maybe, there is a really good administrative reason, like illnesses among central office administrators or the same folks being pulled to another high-priority tasking, causing a delay in handling the various pool/lottery/notification steps.

It's only a few weeks, albeit ones that cause some stress.  Clear and timely MCPS communication to families, while certainly improving on this subject over prior years, still is inhibited by Byzantine structure and is a work (hopefully) in progress.[/quote]

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