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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good.  As a parents of kids who completely qualified and would have thrived at a CES or MS magnet, I am tired of paying for other kids to get what my kids need, while my kids are ignored.   Without magnets there will be more high achievers at my schools.  [/quote]

+1. They could do pull outs for advanced kids at their home schools for far cheaper than what they’re doing for a few lucky kids who get into CES.[/quote]

CES used to be strictly criteria-based until about 2018-ish. The decision of switching to lottery came together with promise to make local enrichment opportunities available for local ES and MS. It used to work for like 2-3 years, and now every local enrichment opportunity is gone except accelerated math. Your extrapolation that gutting CES = creating more local cohort for acceleration is purely day-dreaming. MCPS can't and will not do that. [/quote]

IIRC, lottery was with the pandemic.  They shifted from Highly Gifted Centers (basically, enrichment across all academic subjects) to CES (Humanities-oriented, though often cohorted, anyway, but always saying from that point, "It's not a magnet for math/science.") before that.  Around 2018 (not sure which year, but before the pandemic), there was this plan to make it draw only from where a local cohort wasn't avaialble, but that was abandoned, and they turned to locally normalized MAP along with dropping, for a time at least, CogAT.[/quote]

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