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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the next step in this lottery process? Parents will hear in January whether their kids are in the pool?[/quote]

No one knows. What is the first step or next or last. That is the fundamental problem. Who is sitting in the basement and picking the numbers? No one knows.  The irony is that lottery will not create the look of equity that current BOE wants to create. So there may not be any lottery either even though they say it is. Its crazy stuff [/quote]
Whatever system MCPS uses, disgruntled parents will gripe. [/quote]

Not true. looks like some parents are scared of transparency as much as BOE. What is your problem if parents wants to know more about the process? why does it have to be a secret? [/quote]
Was it a true lottery selection process last year?  Did MCPS print student IDs on a piece of paper and draw one at a time from a fish bowl?  Or they use a computer software to do random drawing from all the candidates?  
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I don't think MCPS has ever conducted a truly random lottery. If there was a true random lottery drawing, people would have received numbers (knowing what order their child was drawn in) and there would be a numbered waitlist.[/quote]

The fact that there is zero transparency regarding process is troubling.[/quote]

That is when they can manipulate with no accountability.[/quote]

Except they've clearly laid out the process for years. The problem is some people who don't like to pretend it's unclear. It's a lottery run on the top 15%. It's that simple. Now stop complaining and seeing conspiracies that don't exist.[/quote]

You are super naive. I have older kids (including 2 in college). The process has never been clear--ever. Why not expand the program so that 99 percenters and 85 percenters can participate? Why can't we have a bigger pie?[/quote]

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