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Reply to "Gifted & talented programs and magnet school opportunities in the public schools?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, there are 12,000 kids per grade in MCPS roughly. Let's take the top 1% of kids - that's 120. Top 5% is 600 kids. Our current Poolesville/Blair/RM seats allow for about half those kids to be in a special program. The missing piece of information is how many of those kids WANT to be in a special program but can't go because of geography/transportation? Then, what percentage of the population should we be contorting ourselves to provide special programs for? Is it 1, 5, or 10% What about a motivated 11th% kid? What we really need to do is strengthen every high school to have a portfolio of advanced classes so the top 10-15% are challenged there (in a high school of 2500 kids, that would be 62-75 kids per grade - that's enough for multiple sections).[/quote] Not every high performer wants a mscs magnet so the county is serving a greater percentage of those who do.[/quote]
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