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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Perhaps you should let MCPS know about your kid so that they can place someone else in that spot. Thiese kids that we are talking about are already recognized by the MCPS as gifted learners. Only due to the lottery these kids are at a disadvantage and have to attend high FARM schools with no local cohort. someone argues that gifted kids from high FARMS deserve to be in regional program beacuse they do not have a local cohort. But then why does MCPS send gifted kids with 99th percentile to that very same high FARMS school with no local cohort? MCPS is failing these kids and If you teach these kids that the merit and their academic achievement does not matter, then in the future, they will receprocate the same way once they grow up and become the decision makers.[/quote]

Okay, so I think you are conflating a few issues here and making some unfounded assumptions.

First of all, MCPS *formerly* had a system that to some degree prioritized the magnets for kids with no home school cohort. That's no longer true. Now they have a lottery. So you are right that some kids are going to have more of a peer group, and others won't.

However, you are wrong to assume that a child attending a high-FARMS school will have zero academic peers. Actual test scores released by MCPS at one point showed that pretty much every school could scrape together a cohort if they tried hard enough. The point is that they need to try hard enough. There are bright kids in every school, so now your job is to stop complaining about how unfair the lottery is and start talking to the MS administration about how they are going to put the "highly able" kids together. [/quote]

Are you making up stuff from under your seat? Can you provide source?[/quote]

DP here. If you look at the chart (including ** footnote at the bottom), every MS has at least 10-20 highly able students identified.
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Do you work for MCPS? Which chart are you talking about? Please provide link. [/quote]

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