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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid scored a 234 on Reading. Lexile level 1245L–1395LL. Our home is in bounds for a Title 1 school, but he's been attending a small private. Excellent student. He was not even selected for the CES lottery, and we are shocked. 99th percentile in reading, 98th in math. He's white, though it seems from this thread that's not a factor. We suppose and imagine the county assumes he's doing fine in private, but private doesn't equal accelerated. I wish I better understood the logic and wasn't simply guessing. [/quote]

This seems wrong. It's really unethical and disgusting MCPS isn't releasing more information. It's possible they normed the private school kids against each other.
I know in Fairfax they did something in the way they admit that reduced the number of private school admissions to the TJ magnet really dramatically. I don't recall what but my guess is applicants from private are overwhelmingly white/Asian and higher income which is what they do not want.[/quote]

Oh FFS. While public schools are set up to serve all children in their area, I don't think it rises to the level of discrimination to assume that kids already attending privates would most likely continue at those privates if not admitted to a PS special program, and to admit accordingly. And that's discrimination against private school students-- not white and Asian students. I mean, really.[/quote]
I agree. [/quote]

I'm not opposed to the policy in general. I just think the school districts should be transparent about it which I think Fairfax was but MCPS is not.
The other thing is that in Fairfax it was done with clear racial motivations according to text messages and other documents by the people making those policies so that's wrong.
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I'm not clear on that at all. I know some people may want to believe that but I think it was done to give everyone a fair chance not just people willing to game the system by dumping tens of thousands into prep classees.[/quote]

What FCPS did was mild by comparison to MCPS. All they did was set a minimum percentage like 1.5% of students admitted to TJ need to come from each high-school, and still the most wealthy schools send like 15X that minmum.[/quote]

Not mild compared to MCPS, it's WAY WORSE. There isn't 15x more able students in wealthy schools. Definitely not. Just take a look at the numbers of highly able students spread across the middle schools of MCPS. I'd rather have a lottery.[/quote]

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