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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Now let's think how this would be modified/adapted to the new regional model. For Region 1, you have Whitman that is low-farm, and some others are moderate FARM. If you apply 95% threshold, do you basically hand almost the entire lottery pool to Whitman students? [/quote]

You are just realizing this now when people are concerned that the DCC students will get even less with this model?[/quote]

But many will have a chance at a non-DCC school which is a huge improvement [/quote]

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