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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]do you know prep classes are not the magic pills that get kids into magnet programs?

if they are so effective that they can turn a regular kid into a super high achieving kid by just doing ~1 class per week for 2~3 month then MCPS should look no further for their new curriculum search!

I knew several people sent their kids to those prep classes and those kids were not accepted. kids really need to be super smart to be able to get in.

I am totally for providing more opportunity to highly able low SES students, but using the excuses that high SES kids got in just because of prep is just ridicules.

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+2. If test prep is that effective, MCPS should have all kids take it and then provide magnet curriculum in all schools. On average, MCPS spends 16,000 on each kid each year. If we have the test prep once every three years, it is only roughly 1000/3. It’s certainly manageable.[/quote]

A few years ago, DC wanted to join one of these classes since there were some friends going there. We ended up not joining because we did not think it was necessary. Guess what - DC ended up qualifying for both MS and HS magnets. Most of those friends ended up going to home schools as they did not qualify for the magnets, except for two; but those two were way above grade level since ES well before they started any of these classes.

So, if anyone thinks these classes have the secret sauce - they never had it, even with the previous admissions test.[/quote]

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