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[quote=Anonymous][b]Oh come on.  I am no fan of the Blair and RMIB folks who act like the sky will fall if you expand their programs from the top 1% to the top 3% or 5%, but anyone who thinks that 22% of MCPS students are prepared for the super-accelerated program at Blair has no real understanding of Blair SMCS or the niche it fills for highly gifted kids, which is absolutely not and should not be just "generic math and science acceleration and enrichment for bright kids. (And I say this as a parent of bright kids who are in the top 20% academically but nowhere near the top 1% or even 3%, and so theoretically would benefit from these changes once they get to high school but in reality are absolutely not the right fit for a program like Blair. I still would rather protect the value of highly advanced programs for the kids who need them, rather than turn them into a generic honors program that my kids could get into.)

Where'd you get that 22%, anyway?  It doesn't make a bit of sense (unless "the criteria" is something super low and generic, like "has taken Algebra 1 by 8th grade" or "has a MAP-M score above the 80th percentile" or something.  But those things have little to do with the actual criteria to get into and benefit from programs like SMCS.)[/quote][/b]

They got that ridiculous number of 22% based who is [b]eligible[/b] to apply to magnets. So magnets set a relatively low threshold to encourage kids to apply and some people run with the idea that that means that we need 30 magnets to host 22% of student population. Never mind that the math proficiency for the county is lowly 36% - only 36% of student meet basic state math requirements. And yet, 22% are somehow worthy of being magnet students. Unfortunately, people who have absolutely no idea of what advanced program means are running the show.[/quote]

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