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[quote=Anonymous]The system is LOTTERY-based and so is academically unfair by definition, OP, in that very able students are being missed by the criteria MCPS has set up. When you pick 85% and above scorers out of a hat, for a limited-seat magnet, and you know that you could fill most of those seats with scorers above 95%, you can't call it academically fair in any way.

However MCPS doesn't care, because it wins on all fronts: there are so few seats to go round relative to the number of highly-functional students, that the immense majority of selected students will all do well, and MCPS will be able to tinker around with its socio-economic criteria all it wants, to include lower-scorers from less-privileged school districts, who are still going to be functional enough to succeed. In other words, MCPS doesn't care about individual students, it cares about the overall well-being of the cohort.

The few high-scorers who really needed the magnets but were not lucky enough to be selected by lottery are SOL!

And sometimes it's quite a saga to get them into a semi-decent track when they end up back in their home school...

In the BCC cluster, unlike in some other clusters, skipping courses is frowned upon, even for highly able students who need advanced courses. DD needed the Algebra 1 class in 6th grade, and the Westland math administrator agreed to test her. He gave her an Algebra quiz, and when she got most of it correct, declined to accept her in Algebra. He did not give her a pre-algebra (AIM) test, mind you, to see if she was ready to go into Algebra - she'd have gotten such a test completely right. No, he expected her to get Algebra questions correct so she could *start* Algebra: meaning, there wouldn't have been much for her to learn that year. A similarly situated student at BCC high school, coming from a middle school STEM magnet, was simply refused a test. It's a complete farce.

We ended up not enrolling DD at Westland, so she wouldn't bang her head on the desk for the entire math lesson every day.

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