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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]

Unless the numbers actually changed, it's a red herring.  Do you have the numbers?[/quote]

lets use test scores and graduation rates, that is what colleges use. [/quote]

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