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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No conspiracy. I do think there were parents who thought they had the system figured out. Their children were sufficiently prepped and then they successfully scored high enough on the different metrics that would have been competitive in years past. But not this year.

The students who were not invited just did not score high enough because of the change.

I think the parents of those students feel cheated, but the current system is more fair in my opinion. Others have stated why over and over, so I won’t rehash. But the parents who think it’s unfair won’t ever hear it. They’ll continue to think their child was more deserving and was cheated out of a superior education because they’re [insert reason]. [/quote]

You are NOT listening too. Past posts said highest scorers were not invited due to cohort. You just chose to think in your way. [/quote]

Which school had no students admitted “due to cohort”?[/quote]

You need to ask MCPS. Another related question is that when every middle school has cohort enrichment class, why do they need to use peer cohort as a criteria? [/quote]

Because there are kids in each school who are above their cohort. Those were the kids selected. [/quote]

How is above defined and measured? How can a kid stand out when the school have a group of top scorers? [/quote]

I think there are two scenarios. At some schools there may be clear standout students. The Cogat scores, which parents did not get but the school district definitely has, could be 99th percentile at 135 or 99th percentile at 155. In this case if both students had perfect grades and perfect scores in other admissions criteria you would take the 155 child. Given how rare that 155 kid is in the general population it's unlikely there were standouts at EVERY school. In some schools there may well have been a cluster of 20 nearly equal kids at the top. FARMS could have made the difference in this case but unclear what they did at schools where there are few FARMS students. Anecdotally, it seems pretty random.

In looking at DD's class there are a half dozen clear outliers based on information the kids share with each other about test performance. The rest are kind of clustered in the same 97th-99th percentile area similar to many kids at the home school taking the enriched classes in MS.[/quote]

I think what you said makes sense. But I don’t believe this was the actual implementation. If this is the real case, why don’t MCPS report SAS instead of 99%? I remember MCPS rep said specifically all 99% were the same. Some other dcurbanmom posts cited the measurement error of SAS as reasons not to use them. It looks like people are not exactly evaluating the same policy as we have injected our own assumptions to fill out the information gap. [/quote]

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