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[quote=Anonymous]There seems to be a misunderstanding of the definition of objective

The criteria may not be entirely *clear* -- they haven't laid out exactly what schools are in what tranches for local norms, the extent of the percentile difference due to local norming or the algorithms for weighting from FARMS/ESOL/IEP/504.  The evaluatuon may not be *deterministic* due to the lottery.  The results are not available for public scrutiny.  (What proportion of MAP 99%ers were left out?)  The alternative offerings at local schools appear to be neither well described, nor relatively equivalent to magnet programming, nor uniformly available across schools.

However, the criteria laid out are relatively *objective* -- grades may depend to a degree on a teacher's point of view towards a student, but are in lage part based on standard curricular assessments, MAP percentile scores, despite norming and weighting, are not subject to an evaluator's further adjustment based on liking (or not) certain characteristics of an evaluated student, etc.

There are flaws in, but not so much subjectivity to, the evaluation process.[/quote]

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