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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lottery is not an appropriate way to select students for an academic enrichment program. There are a lot of heated discussions going on behind the scenes but Central Office is holding firm for now. I only wish there were some lawsuits to push them off sooner. Their policy discriminates against students who score highest on reputable and widely-accepted measures of achievement and goes against decades of research on how best to educate advanced learners.

To OP and others whose kids didn't score quite as high as they hoped, monitor what your children read - if they don't read texts that challenge them a little bit, their scores won't increase much. It's not the quantity, but the quality of reading that matters.[/quote]
There's more to kids' abilities than just that which testing shows. Any specific tool for measurement will artificially cut out some kids. How is that more fair?[/quote]

Don't start that again, just like all the Central Office people who gave that as pretext to blather about "equity" when really in the back of their minds they have a vision of a practically all-Asian magnet school, and that's what really scares them because a lot of them are closet racists.

Academic scores to select who gets into an academically enriched program is DUH kind of obvious, and the LEAST worse way to pick students. We all agree that some intelligent students will be left out. This is the way to leave as few as possible out, because even disadvantaged students, or students who are primarily gifted in other ways than academics, will tend to have high Cogat scores if their critical thinking is highly developed.[/quote]
You get to play the cyclops in The Odyssey with such a limited view of school![/quote]

The problem with their myopic view is they define merit rigidly without looking at what's been going on and how these metrics are easily gamed by anyone wiling to spend a few thousand dollars on outside enrichment. Now, I'm all for outside enrichment but  let's not pretend it makes you more worthy for a publicly funded program. I don't know if there any perfect solutions but if it were up to me I'd probably double the spots and do a lottery of the top 5%-10% to ensure anyone who could do the work can participate. This false scarcity hunger games approach that appeals may appeal to some as a status symbol but it really isn't working.[/quote]

The best sneeches on the beaches[/quote]

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