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What percentage of MoCo students attends magnets?[/quote]

Here is a report for you to read: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/choice/ChoiceStudyReport-Version2-20160307.pdf[/quote]

Thanks! So we're talking about 442 students per grade on average who are admitted to what used to be known as a highly gifted centers.  And there are about 13,000 kids per grade.  So the [b]top 3% [/b]or so goes to magnets, and everyone else makes do with standard MCPS.  Yup, I prefer the Fairfax model.[/quote]

Top 3% are very special kids with unique needs. [/quote]

I have a CES kid and I think she's special, but she's not some supergenius who couldn't possible have functioned in anything but a self-contained classroom. Just bright, hard-working, and creative. Ditto the vast majority of her peers in that class. Of the kids I know well in that class (about 15), only one appears to be highly gifted in the "clinical" sense. The rest are like my daughter. More creative than other kids, but not doing high-level physics in 4th grade or anything. [/quote]

+1  There has to be an arbitrary cutoff point.  But reasonable people could conclude that 3% is less inclusive than it needs to be and that 10% could function just fine without a substantial dumbing down of the curriculum.[/quote]

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