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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have more faith in objective testing than I do in the school's ability to identify anything. This system will result in children being admitted of the parents who volunteer the most or brown nose teachers the most.[/quote]
Me too.   I have a kid with ADD that's never does that great in class.   You should have seen how surprised everyone was with his inview test results.   Objective tests don't lie. 
    
Also there is never much of an opportunity for quiet kids to shine.    This won't be good at all.  [/quote]

The HGCs were designed with a somewhat different goal in mind than the MS and HS magnets in that they are (were?) supposed to be for kids who are very bright but not necessarily doing wonderfully in class. This is why the tests were weighted so heavily. They were supposed to give these kids the opportunity to be with their peers to see whether that would make a difference and they could be motivated to do their best. Some kids, especially in elementary when the stakes are low, are so ahead that they are bored and they act out or don't take the work seriously. I am a substitute and see this every day. I think the tests were supposed to level the playing field so that kids who might be URMs would not be subject to teacher biases in recommendations.

I think MCPS's strategy now is to explicitly encourage teachers to "identify" URMs. I think this would not be illegal because they are not taking race into account in the actual admissions process but simply biasing the teacher recommendations in a different direction. I think they have found a clever way around the law.[/quote]

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