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[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]

Disagree.  How would it be if we made access to services for those with academic challenges  lottery-based?  Might you think that unfair, perhaps, because it would leave those not winning a lottery with their needs unmet?  Ditto for those with need for high-level academics.

Maybe if they made it such that all schools met that need equivalently well, then interest-related lotteries wouldn't matter (as much).  However, their plan, as it stands, neither provides enough criteria-based seating to ensure access to those with related need nor ensures that there are equivalent opportunities associated with that need across all high schools .  Fail.[/quote]

These are not true lotteries as when my daughter was in es she surpassed other kids with map scores before the lottery and was not chosen.  Other kids whose parents were friends either the principal and teachers got in. They need to provide the opportunities at all schools.  [/quote]

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