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[quote=Anonymous]Far more kids [i]do[/i] have need for accelerated & enriched programs than MCPS allocates seats.  There are plenty outside the high-SES areas, but effective identification mechanisms also are lacking, and eschewing ability-based testing like CogAT in favor of exposure-based testing like MAP simply makes that worse -- local norming only goes so far, leaving holes on the individual level while still enabling relative ease of system gaming for those who resource hoard.

It would take an appetite for increased taxes to support robust programs that are reasonably equally accessible across the county (in addition to priority shifting among the BOE, top MCPS brass) to address this.  That's a County Council & state legislature issue, at heart, and one likely less supported by those in high-SES areas, who would like to have their cake and eat it too when they espouse, in essence, prioritizing programs at schools with large cohorts (when identification is more likely for their children due to the external supports their financial status affords) without funding the whole system.[/quote]

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