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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has been lying since October. 
The Program Deign Team (who MCPS "deigns" to share their designs to) was notified that the [b]criteria programs will be lottery based.[/b]

The non-lottery version, announced after parent resistance in October, was a lie to get parents off MCPS's back

Equity and Opportunity in MCPS are cancelled.

Ironically, MCPS middle scholers are studying Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"  this week. [/quote]

A lottery is fine, as long as all entrants actually meet the criteria for admission.[/quote]

The devil is in the details. What should the criteria be - meeting the lowest bar or the highest bar? Right now, looks like the lowest bar. [/quote]

Also high/low FARMS school have different bars now. Is it fair?[/quote]

Correct for current CES and MS magnet. They published the threshold like 2 years ago. High farm threshold is 60% on map-r for CES lottery pool, while low farm threshold threshold is 95%.[/quote]

It was actually 71st percentile for the highest FARMS schools (a tiny group of extremely high poverty schools, only 8 of the 100+ elementary schools at MCPS.)  For the rest of the Title 1 schools and other "moderately high FARMS" schools (which still generally are majority-FARMS) it was 79th percentile.  [/quote]

DP, and I think these numbers are incorrect, but regardless they are quite low. When you have lots and lots of students performing much better on the same test, I just don’t fundamentally support giving limited spots to kids who are significantly less academically prepared. Fine if you want to maybe scoop in kids in the 90th percentile from high FARMS schools instead of 95th+ elsewhere, but lower than that seems inequitable in terms of meeting educational need based on demonstrated performance. Kid with 70-something percentile is truly not demonstrating need of an accelerated or enriched special program several grade levels ahead. [/quote]

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