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[quote=Anonymous]The excuses I've heard for the Magnet admissions changes are that "there are many forms of genius" or "test results don't matter" or "it's an equity issue and we're just leveling the playing field."

The irony here is that the Magnet approach MCPS is using will backfire by HS.  A child at the 85 percentile is unlikely to be able to compete with a 99th percentile child on equal footing.  Why?  For the exact same reason not every child scoring a 1400 on the SAT can improve more than a few points (normally less than 100); no matter how much a child "test preps."

Labeling a child as Magnet surrounded by kids smarter than them will not automatically make that child perform at a higher level; it just dumbs-down the Magnet program.  A child barely qualified for CES will just be demoralized trying to keep up.  The other option is the teacher is forced to teach to the bottom of the class (or fail them, which they can't do for equity reasons), which demoralizes the top students (making them resent the class anchors).  The teachers all know this - they're just going through the motions to make their bosses happy.

It can be fixed.  There are a lot of bad apples at the top that have to get fired before anything will improve.[/quote]

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