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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has been lying since October. 
The Program Deign Team (who MCPS "deigns" to share their designs to) was notified that the [b]criteria programs will be lottery based.[/b]

The non-lottery version, announced after parent resistance in October, was a lie to get parents off MCPS's back

Equity and Opportunity in MCPS are cancelled.

Ironically, MCPS middle scholers are studying Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"  this week. [/quote]

A lottery is fine, as long as all entrants actually meet the criteria for admission.[/quote]

The devil is in the details. What should the criteria be - meeting the lowest bar or the highest bar? Right now, looks like the lowest bar. [/quote]

Also high/low FARMS school have different bars now. Is it fair?[/quote]

Correct for current CES and MS magnet. They published the threshold like 2 years ago. High farm threshold is 60% on map-r for CES lottery pool, while low farm threshold threshold is 95%.[/quote]

It was actually 71st percentile for the highest FARMS schools (a tiny group of extremely high poverty schools, only 8 of the 100+ elementary schools at MCPS.)  For the rest of the Title 1 schools and other "moderately high FARMS" schools (which still generally are majority-FARMS) it was 79th percentile.  [/quote]

Now let's think how this would be modified/adapted to the new regional model. For Region 1, you have Whitman that is low-farm, and some others are moderate FARM. If you apply 95% threshold, do you basically hand almost the entire lottery pool to Whitman students? [/quote]

You are just realizing this now when people are concerned that the DCC students will get even less with this model?[/quote]

But many will have a chance at a non-DCC school which is a huge improvement [/quote]

Run the numbers vs. that offered now.  Also run the numbers on likely access, across schools, to a plethora of advanced courses.

There are likely to be more DCC students left behind at their home schools without offerings commensurate with their capabilities in any way reasonably equivalent to the other schools in their regions, without neither a sizeable enough local cohort of high achievers nor a commitment from MCPS to ensure that equivalent access across schools.[/quote]

If you run the numbers, you have to take into account with redistricting and reducing student numbers, there will be fewer staff/teachers at each school, so something has to be cut, and most likely that will be the few upper classes and electives offered, as there isn't much else to cut.  Every year our school is seeing a reduction in teaching staff.  Then, the excuses come as to why we cannot have upper-level or AP classes.[/quote]

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