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[quote=Anonymous][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]

My elder one experienced the first-year of CES, where they changed the name from HGC to CES, but the selection criteria were still MAP + CoGAT (used to be RAVEN, but it's similar to CoGAT). Back then people were arguing about not enough seats at CES, and the METIS report was the last straw. As a response, MCPS switched to the lottery model, and added enrichment for ELA and compact math to local schools. When my younger one joint CES, the quality had apparently watered down. I was at a time regretting to let them go the CES track instead of staying local, but I'm not anymore reading the CKLA feedback. MCPS has visibly declining consistently over my years as a parent, and now it seems that it has finally reached the turning point of scraping out all acceleration paths. Sad but echoing the US economic status. Our children will be mostly fighting for factory worker jobs. [/quote]

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