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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People still don't get it?
It no longer has anything to do with who is smarter, CES or non-CES. It is all about the COHORT!!!

Talk to your local middle school principle and ask the school to provide HIGH-QUALITY, ENRICHED education to the cohort![/quote]
This. They now put everyone who scores at an above average level into their “ qualified” pool and then use the peer cohort criteria to make the final decisions. It is no longer about which kids are the smartest per test scores or who have the greatest intellectual drive/thirst for knowledge per teacher recommendations and student essays 
I just hope they don’t do this to the high school Magnet application process. There is less reason to worry about outliers in low performing high schools since every MCPS high school offers a robust selection of AP courses[/quote]

Teacher/Parent recommendations were never a reliable or consistent metric.[/quote]

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Look, I get it. I have a kid who would dramatically benefit from the teacher/parent recommendations. Attentive, curious, easy to get along with, high-level and unique extracurriculars, etc.

But I also know that none of these things make my child more qualified for a magnet seat than a child who is more easily distracted, or has a tougher personality, or whose parents haven't had the resources to invest in 10,000 hours of practice by the age of 11. [/quote][/b]

This is so well said.  I could have written it myself.  I had one child go through CES to Eastern Humanities to Blair CAP and my second just started CES.  I know the new system might mean that my second won't have as high chance to get into the magnets, but I can see that it is an ultimately more equitable way of choosing kids who really need to be pulled out to get the enrichment they could so use.

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