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Reply to "Getting into Takoma Park Middle School's magnet as a boy"
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[quote=Anonymous]Say the average test score of admitted kids is 700 and the average score of cluster kids is 500. Yes, this is a complete exaggeration of the general "slouchiness" you're insinuating the cluster kids have. But look at where even this exaggeration gets us. Overall magnet average test score = 4/5*700 + 1/5*500 = 560 + 100 = 660. Thus, adding 25 cluster kids who are assumed for this example to be *really slouchy* only lowers the magnet's overall, average test score by 40 points (700-660=40). And I can tell you, because my kid goes to the magnet, that the cluster kids are not dragging down class discussions by their slouchiness. It's not like everybody is waiting for them to catch up. My understanding is that the kids themselves don't distinguish between cluster and non-cluster, because the differences in learning ability aren't obvious (and certainly not as obvious as my made-up example of 700 vs. 500).[/quote]
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