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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what’s most telling about this process is the teachers’ perspectives. My child is in a CES program and we asked his teacher if he had any other information to share about the MS magnets and he was told by MCPS that teachers have no role in the selection process and they shouldn’t even speak to their families about it. That the teachers know as little about the lottery as parents. And that teachers who have been working in these programs for years don’t agree with the new process at all. That it will miss some of the most gifted kids with limited options at their homeschools and that the rigor of the  curriculum for the magnet programs is being reduced to adjust for the wider array of kids. So nobody really gets what they need.[/quote]

If this is true - that teachers have no role in the magnet selection process and they shouldn’t even speak to their families about it - it is a very scary state of affairs. It seems neither parents nor teachers are expected to have a say. It is all in the hands of the board and their cronies then? Gifts to be doled for votes? [/quote]

In a school system with over 100k families you actually think the board would go all skull and dagger to get a handful of votes? Even if your fever dream were true it would not add up to more than a few dozen votes. Frankly, I was hoping you would just let this thread die... [/quote]

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