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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ETA: and the Blair and RM parents who are complaining about the quality of the program declining if it becomes regional are horrible snobs. Your gifted kid can learn with other gifted local kids! They don’t have to be with only gifted kids from all around the whole county! Give me a break. So snobby![/quote]
Is [url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Olympiad_Program]MO[/url][url=https://web.evanchen.cc/mop.html]P[/url] snobby?[/quote]

The quality of the program would definitely decline if, instead of taking top 100 kids it took the top 1000. It’s already a very tough, challenging program that only the top third or so truly excel in. Expanding without reducing the standards will just set some kids up for failure or more likely dilute the program.[/quote]

You're assuming that the 100 kids in the program are the top and would forever be.  You are also assume there is not another 900 kids who could/would succeed in such program if the seats and program structure were available.[/quote]

DP - yes.  I don't really understand the elitist attitude at all.  My children are younger, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but I always hear that MCPS is great if you can take full advantage of the magnets.  But then that's a major caveat, because middle school magnets are lottery based and high school magnets are very, very selective.  We should be serving more qualified children.

For the parents who are endorsing the Blair magnet and the RM IB program (for example) as they are, is it because your kids already got in?  Or are you really not worried about your younger children making the cut?  I am a little baffled.[/quote]

Maybe they need to build more magnets but not restrict by regions. So a magnet won’t be just selecting students from 5 high schools. That certainly dilutes the magnet program cohorts. [/quote]

There are plenty of students in each region to support programs.  The deck even showed this.[/quote]

What did the deck show about this? -DP[/quote]

That there are students in all the regions with high GPAs and involved in specialized programs. There is also reporting done each year to show that there are kids in alls schools taking advance classes.  So quit it with your chicken little mentality or scarcity mentality.  [/quote]

I’m a different poster who was asking for more info. But I would point out a couple of things. 1) a high GPA means very little in MCPS. Maybe that will improve with the new grading policy, but right now there is a ton of grade inflation. 2) regardless, kids who are qualified to go to Magnets may not want to do it if it is not at their home school. So pulling from just 4 or 5 schools could be a problem in terms of ensuring the same rigor.  [/quote]

#2 exist now with programs not being regional and further away.  In the regional model kids are more likely to go to a program because it’s not as far[/quote]

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