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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the biggest problem with the "home school cohort" was that MCPS could never explain how it chose who would be "kept" in the cohort and who would be sent to CES.

MCPS never really did anything for these "home school cohorts," so it was essentially just window dressing on an exclusion tool.  As long as your school had over 20 magnet candidates then MCPS had a process to exclude many of them.

The problem is that it was a total black box.

MCPS to this day has not explained its process for deciding who would be excluded from being sent to CES.

Not after multiple requests for explanation.  Not after being sued.  Not after switching to a lottery.

You would think MCPS could explain their process of selecting the home school cohorts after they ditched the concept.  Yet they refuse to.

Makes it sound like MCPS is hiding something.  They should have explained their process by now if it was fair and just.[/quote]

And here it is boiled down:

[b]MCPS to this day has not explained its process for deciding who would be excluded from being sent to CES.[/b]

One argument contends that MCPS struggles and contorts to design a process to exclude students.

Another argument contends that MCPS struggles and contorts to design a process to include students.

I myself suspect that MCPS struggles and contorts because it is beset on both sides by litigious people that see an opportunity to fight a political / cultural proxy using middle school students as cannon fodder.

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