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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year's 5th Grade cohort had every reason to gripe.  It felt like MCPS changed the rules in the middle of the game.  The pilot program introduced a different set of criteria for admission, but the presentation of that criteria was very opaque.  In part, this was because MCPS wasn't sure how it would go.  But it was also because MCPS was not brave enough[b] to share the outlier theory[/b] with a bunch of hyper-engaged parents before they implemented the theory.

This year, however, it's clear.  Unless the CES kid is an outlier at their home middle school, they will likely be returning to the home middle school to attend enriched classes.

This is reality.  If it is not a tolerable one, MCPS families can (1) attend private school, (2) home school, (3) move .[/quote]
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They were clear in the fall of 2017 that one factor would be whether there was an academic peer group of at least 20 at home MS.  The purpose of magnet schools is to group students who need a higher level of academics than provided at their home schools.  If there are enough students at a single middle school to permit higher level classes  AND those classes are taught by qualified instructors, great.  The "enriched classes" are serving oh, maybe 1000 or more students almost all of whom would have had nothing under the prior system.  This is in addition to the 225 students at TPMS/Eastern.

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Well, first of all not EVERY school had at least 20 kids. Westland didn't, for example. Several other schools would drop below 20 if even just 2 kids were accepted to TPMS or Eastern. I do think that MCPS is trying to get more enrichment into home schools and reserve the magnets for kids who wouldn't have a peer cohort, but I don't think that chart conveys the information you believe it is conveying. 
It looks like there were at least 20 "highly able" students in every middle school last year so why didn't they just do the enriched classes for all middle schools instead of discriminating against kids in high performing school clusters?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf[/quote][/quote]

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