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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
I find it really hard to believe that there isn't a gifted academic "co-hort" of at least 20 students in any school outside Bethesda/Potomac/Rockville/North Potomac. Are these schools so academically superior that the ALL the other middle schools in the county can't come up with at least 20 students to form a co-hort?[/quote]

[quote]Why are you suggesting that's an issue? Many middle schools outside those areas are getting the new enriched math and humanities classes this year, so they do have cohorts of at least 20[/quote]

So then why would these students not also be ineligible for the magnet program? By MCPS's own logic, they should have been shut out too.

Or those schools don't have 20 kids at the same level and the new enriched classes in those schools will be less rigorous challenging because the peer cohort isn't as strong.

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You clearly do not understand the process. The kids that got selected to go to the magnet our outliers in each of the middle school cohorts that were identified using the MAP, CogAt, PARCC based on the data link a previous poster provided. My child has at least 20 peers in his DCC middle school that will receive the new enriched classes. However, 3 kids in his class that were always the outliers are going to the TPMS magnet. What MCPS did was pick kids from a wider geographic area instead of 60% of the incoming magnet class coming from 2 or 3 middle school clusters.[/quote]

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