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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the county is losing in this reorg are the critical mass clusters of 99th percentile kids, for lack of a better description, that enable their particular schools to fill classrooms for things like MVC, LA, etc. to prep for the most rigorous undergraduate schools.

Reality check - your 95th percentile kid isn’t losing out much in this reorg. They’ll be fine in the new system.

The kids that are getting screwed are the couple hundred kids each year in the county that can benefit from being around their exceptional academic peers. The only way to do that is to have bussed magnet programs like Blair/Poolesville/etc.

My kid was one of these kids (1600/4.9 WGPA/15 APs/senior magnet award winner) but she’s finished HS. This new reorg will NOT place kids like her in a classroom filled with academic peers. But academics isn’t everything you learn at school, and the impact is only on a couple hundred kids countywide. MCPS doesn’t care if the number of MoCo kids going to Ivy+ drops if median performance of everyone goes up somewhat. [/quote]

I realize we are talking about high school and high school is not a lottery, but as someone with younger kids, I have felt concerned about the way the middle school programs are lottery based.  Assuming there will be an update there is well, it seems needed…..[/quote]

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