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Because of the Metis report.  They seem to be heavily focused on closing the achievement gap, which by itself, is a good thing to focus on. But, if the student is not ready for CM, then the student shouldn't be put in it. Doesn't matter what the skin color is.  There are some wealthier white children whose parents push the school to put their kid in CM. Neither serves the student.

I'm just wondering why schools are putting more kids into CM.  And it does seem to be a county wide thing, not just a few schools.  When my older DC was in CM, it was the first or second year of it, and there were only something like twelve kids in it.  This year, the number is more than double. I highly doubt that this year's crop of kids is that much more smarter than a few years ago.

Also, they changed the HGC test structure. Again, when my DC applied, it was something like a two hour test.  Last year, it was 30minutes.  Why the change?[/quote]

More kids are in compacted math because everything old is new again. More acceleration, less acceleration, more acceleration, less acceleration...

MCPS is redoing the admissions processes for all of the application magnet programs because of the Metis report. They started with the elementary school program, now they're working on the middle school program, then they'll get to the high school programs. [/quote]

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