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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the poster who posted the spreadsheet with the numbers of kids classified as highly able. Do you know what the criteria was for being classified as highly able?

MCPS must have had a set of quantitative criteria for categorizing this many students. Too many for them to weed through kid by kid. I'd suspect that the classification "highly able" is much broader than people expect. It makes no sense that schools like Pyle and Frost were blocked but schools with an equal peer cohort of highly able students like SSIM and Sligo were not unless the kids at Frost/Pyle were mostly at the upper end of the highly able group and SSIM was at the lower end.

MCPS must have had some way of ranking students to select the "outliers", [b]I don't understand why they just can't be transparent about what they did.[/b] MCPS is not a private company. Its a public school system and it owes the citizens who govern it transparency. [/quote]

They have been transparent about what they did. "Transparent" doesn't mean "tell me everything I want to know", although people often use it that way. "Transparent" also doesn't mean "I don't like the outcome, so I will criticize the process for not being transparent".[/quote]

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