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This is false. ANYONE could take the test, and it wasn't heavily reliant on teacher/parent rec. [/quote]
Only kids whose parents asked for their children to be tested were considered for the program in previous years but now schools identify candidates. Something like five times as many kids were tested than in prior years. This seems far more inclusive and does a better job finding the best candidates.

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I totally agree.[b] As long as MCPS provides adequate accelerated classes for the cohorts of kids who are left at their home schools, [/b]I think this is actually a really good move towards equity in access to magnet programs.

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And that is the $64,000 question.  Right now, they are only going to offer one or two of such classes, and I doubt the curriculum of those classes will be the exact same as in the magnet.[/quote]

Massive eye role

If you are in the wealthier part of the county you are already accelerated.  Even the kids in the "regular classes" are lightyears ahead of the average MCPS student.  
So instead of having a magnet with kids who already were going to be fine and do well in their base schools.  We have switched to a system that identifies smart kids from poorer (and yes more diverse) section of MCPS who could really benefit form having more advanced programming vs the slower normal programming at their base school.  
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same as Harvard!  See, the kids who were naturally scoring well, doing ECs/sports well, and leadership were not admitted in order to give kids who had poor K-12 experiences but pretty good test scores an opportunity at more advanced schooling. Because they need to accelerate and that's how it works. [/quote]

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