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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps they should modify the criteria and make it so that 80 percent of the spots are reserved for kids with 95 percent plus and 20 percent of the spots are reserved for 85-95.[/quote]

Maybe it'll be more palatable to MCPS and BOE if this ratio was 50/50.[/quote]

I am wondering why not include all kids in the lottery and just pick and send them to regional program? why do you even have a 85% threshold when 99 the percentile is assigned to high FARM school with no local cohort and 85th percentil is placed in regional program? Why is MCPS putting some kids at a disadvantage while promoting others? Isn't that discrimination?[/quote]

There are long lasting implications to what MCPS is doing to these kids. These future leaders are going to grow up, thinking that hardwork and merit does not matter. I am more worried about that than GT programs admission. On the other side, kids who are benefitting from non objective process such as lottery aka will believe in luck more than determination and hardwork as they see that hard work and higher scores did not matter after all to get into GT programs.[/quote]

I dunno, I don’t think I’m with you on this one. My 99 map kid didn’t work hard for that score. It’s more luck that his brain works in a way that scores well on these types of tests. GT programs were never designed for the hardest working students. Giftedness has nothing to do with determination.[/quote]

Perhaps you should let MCPS know about your kid so that they can place someone else in that spot. Thiese kids that we are talking about are already recognized by the MCPS as gifted learners. Only due to the lottery these kids are at a disadvantage and have to attend high FARM schools with no local cohort. someone argues that gifted kids from high FARMS deserve to be in regional program beacuse they do not have a local cohort. But then why does MCPS send gifted kids with 99th percentile to that very same high FARMS school with no local cohort?  MCPS is failing these kids and If you teach these kids that the merit and their academic achievement does not matter, then in the future, they will receprocate the same way once they grow up and become the decision makers.

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