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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are many issues with how MCPS handles gifted education. Part of the issue is that the district has an equity mission that, right now, is being prioritized over all other educational priorities. Putting aside for a moment whether equity should be a higher priority than anything else, they haven’t *defined* equity. Some education experts say equity means giving students what they need, in an unequal way, to achieve equal outcomes. This is silly, because in no world will or should all students have equal outcomes. Even my two children, who are siblings, will have different trajectories in life. Others say equity is giving students what they need, in an unequal way, to help them reach their individual potential. What MCPS appears to be doing is giving needier students what they think they need and finding ways to take resources and advantages away from less needy students in order to make it “appear” that they are narrowing the gap between the haves and the have nots. They also withhold public information and do not evaluate their changes. So they twist all around to try to come up with an algorithm that gets more FARMs kids into magnets, but they don’t publish how many spots were offered, how many were turned down, whether the new lottery system has been successful in matching students to the program, whether students who were in the lottery pool but not offered spots have stagnated as compared to peers who were placed in a magnet, etc. [/quote]

As a parent of kids at the MS magnet, I think the lottery process has evolved, and they seem to be improving the selection since its first year. At least, it looks like they've improved on it somewhat.[/quote]

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