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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. BCC isn't downcounty consortium.

2. [b]There is a "geographic" criteria for magnet selection, so that MCPS can give an advantage to poorly-performing schools in lower-income districts.[/b] So if you're in Bethesda, yes, your child is at a disadvantage, even if you scraped together all you had to afford a rent-controlled apartment there.
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At present, there is no expansion of "local norming" to the HS magnet admission process. It does exist at the lower grades, but the impact is negligible at the CES level as those programs are already regional in nature.

So, there's actually no disadvantage to applying for the HS magnet coming from a BCC feeder. If you happened to be a genuinely poor person who had scraped together all you could afford for a rent-controlled apartment in Bethesda, however, you would get special consideration as a person who qualifies for FARMS. [/quote]

Not quite true. There are higher income sending schools and middle income sending schools even for the Chevy Chase CES but when they introduced the local norming they did take some of the impact of it away a bit by moving one of the Ws into CCES CES as opposed to the Barnsley CES where they were taking spots away from lower income elementaries. This way the the CCES CES had BCC, and most of the Ws so students were only competing with each other for spots and minimizing the number of kids from high SES schools in the other CESes.[/quote]

The savagery of making the wealthy students compete amongst each other![/quote]

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