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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it interesting that at my childs ES there are less then 5 kids who qualify for the compacted 4/5 math and will ride a bus to the middle school for math. However some of the schools - ex. caderock - has entire classes (20-25 kids) who qualified for the program and so they have a teacher who will come to the school. Was the testing or qualifications so different in each school? why 3 kids in my school and 25 in another? These tests/qualifications should be the same county wide. [/quote]

Perhaps the one school simply has a lot more kids advanced in math.  Happens.  [/quote]

I think there can be other explanations why some school has entire classes of students for compacted 4/5 math BESIDES - 1) difference in how the math curriculum  is taught, 2) difference in how kids are tested and evaluated   or  3)  happy coincidence that some area codes have greater number of kids who are good in Math.

Most of these kids in compacted Math are not relying on what MCPS is teaching them at school alone. [b]They are being taught at home by parents, summer camps, other enrichment courses, online math lessons etc. [/b]
We have to acknowledge that there is a parallel system of education in MCPS and most high achievers are getting their edge by learning from outside MCPS sources.  A school that has more students advanced in math does not happen by itself...also look at the household income, level of parents education and race.  [/quote]

Bingo.  This is absolutely true.[/quote]

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