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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, this lottery process really sucks and I am so disgusted with MCPS for this. Unfortunately, we have no charter schools and private is too expensive. Our DC did not get into the magnets last year and was waitlisted as well. DC has no peers in the local MS that are interested in things like robotics/programming and receives no real enrichment to speak off. Highly qualified kids who would have thrived at these magnets are essentially being overlooked by MCPS and their lack of transparency speaks volumes to how poorly managed this whole thing is.

I am glad they have not made the HS magnets lottery based yet. I am afraid that its simply a matter of time before MCPS messes that up as well.[/quote]

I am sure, those who wants to promote equity over excellence are perhaps applauding the success of middle school lottery selection to make a case for using lottery for high school magnet program. They killed to COGAT for this reason even though kids are learning in person. I would not be surprised if they use lottery for high school magnet programs next year. [/quote]

One problem with this is the lottery doesn't serve excellence or equity especially well. [/quote]

Unfortunately no one seems to understand this. The current process just disadvantage highly abled students by denying them opportunity to continue their progress. Instead of expanding the opportunities for all kids, whoever there be is adding more constraints dragging students ability down for whatever reason. This is so sad.[/quote]

The main reason they did this was to address the litigation around the admission changes that added universal screening and locally normed scoring which is considered a best practice for GT program admissions.[/quote]

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