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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Surprised to see the article said that outside testing was used to qualify.  I did not think this was true.[/quote]

It was just one of the many ways wealthier parents could game the system in past years.[/quote]

the prior system sounds ridiculous.  parent recommendations and teacher recommendations needed to qualify instead of universal screening.[/quote]

There was also a test.[/quote]

They changed the test last year.  Messed up some of the prep program success rates.[/quote]

This is positively Trumpian!

FYI: *even MCPS* is not claiming what you believe. If what you believe is true, MCPS could just shrug and say, "tough luck, the test changed, and your kids did not do well." But they don't, because we are talking about kids who had no problem acing the new test, and aced PARCC/MAP/etc. They were not admitted to TPMS/Eastern this year solely because of the peer group criterion. These are kids for whom the test did not make any difference.

A thought experiment: MCPS could have first tried universal testing along with a new test but without the peer group criterion. Why do you think they included the peer group factor on top of the other two?

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