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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like top 5% should definitely be in at CM. Top 10% is also likely. When you get to the 80th percentile, that's more dependent on which school your kid is at: how many CM classes are available and other students' scores.

If they're putting 60th percentile in CM, most of the kids in that school are probably lower SES and so the bar is much lower.
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No one has presented any evidence that anything like this is happening.

"Local norming" is used to keep high SES students out of magnets and let them be enriched with their home schools, because, the #1 thing that makes a school a "good school" isn't the curriculum or the teachers or the parents, it's the students. Teachers target their classroom average students, so classes with higher performing students do higher performance work than other classes, regardless of the name on the transcript.

If lower performing students are in CM, they will roll out to Math 6+ in 6th grade.
Higher performing students kept out of CM will test into AIM anyway. There is not that much difference between these levels of math, it's just repetition and spiral until Prealgebra. [/quote]

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