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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] In addition, from the first quarter/marking period, your DC must have an A in Math, an A in Science and an at or above on-grade reading level.
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Thanks a lot. I was confused about the above. Are you talking about As in those subject for the first quarter/marking period of grade 5 or the kid’s whole elementary school career? [/quote]

First marking period of grade 5 only. It’s pretty stupid if you ask me. We had an ELA teacher who openly admitted to subjective grading and giving B’s to “motivate” students. [/quote]

All this magnet selection stuff is done very narrowly and is pretty stupid in my opinion.  I sent my 99 pct COGAT third grade kid to school when she wasn’t 100 pct feeling well one day and it turned out to be MAP-R testing day (unannounced) and her score was well below her normal 95 pct plus level. But since they don’t look at COGAT to choose for CES and only look at one MAP data point, guess whose kid wasn’t deemed eligible for CES lottery?    [/quote]
I hope you appealed.[/quote]

Nope.  I didn't know "appeals" existed for CES.  I'm not sure on what grounds I would be able to appeal on anyway.  MCPS doesn't look at COGAT for selection to CES, and their narrow criteria for the MAP tests is stupid but it's clearly defined.  [/quote]

You can appeal to get into the wait pool if you can demonstrate "A unique hardship impacted a student’s academic profile"-- not sure how high the bar is on that and whether illness would count.  (Also you can appeal if there was a genuine error in their data.) Your chances are pretty low to get in at that point because the first round of kids have already been selected so it's just to fill slots for kids who decline or drop out later on, but it's possible.[/quote]
That’s not true. There are also kids who get accepted to both middle school magnet programs in the first round (math and humanities), but they can only accept one, as well as kids who were selected for one program in the first round and placed in the waitpool for the other program, then in the second round they are selected from the waitpool for the other program and decide they’d rather go there instead. There’s some movement on the second round.[/quote]

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