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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Really, the school system doesn't serve 90-95% of the students? That has not been our experience at all. My DC is at a top MCPS high school and I think is being very well served, as are most of the other kids in the school of 2000 kids. Seems like the people we know at other Bethesda and Potomac high schools are also being well served. So that's close to 9000-10000 kids. Way more when you count the feeder ES and MS. That's got to be more than 5% of the total. I assume at least some kids in the rest of the county are also well served. [/quote]

I think the poster was referring to the top 10% of MCPS students or students above the 90th percentile.  This was my interpretation of the post.[/quote]

Yes, this is what I meant and what I said. The "90-95th percentile" is a completely different concept from "90-95% of kids."  The 90-95th percentile kids are the kids who are above average but don't make it into the magnets.

Signed, the economist[/quote]

Actually you wrote % not percentile, and another poster also interpreted that as 90-95% of kids. But I still disagree as my DC is probably in that zone (maybe a little higher based on SATs) and is not in a magnet and is well served at our home school. And there are kids above and below but still in the top percentile range who are well served.

I am not opposed to the pay raises. I do wish class sizes could at least go back to where they were a couple of years ago. [/quote]

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