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I like your suggestions. My youngest is in 8th, so was in the old system. I think that given the sheer numbers of highly able students identified through the universal screening process, there is clearly a huge need for enrichment in the county. [b]Get rid of the regional middle school magnets (TPMS, Eastern, Clemente)[/b]. Focus all enrichment efforts at the home school level. All schools need to offer true honors and gifted classes. If a highly-able child does not have a large enough cohort at their MS, they get a COSA to any MS that does have a cohort (mcps provides transportation).

I think that the switch to universal screening demonstrates that the vast majority of parents in MCPS want their kids at local schools. People knew their kids were highly-able in the old selection system, but didn't apply because the magnets were too far, kids preferred to stay close to friends, kids/parents weren't interested in the curriculum-- a whole host of reasons.

It would have been interesting in the pilot year of universal screening to continue to use the same entrance tests, so they could compare scores between the self-nominated cohorts of previous years and the new universal cohort. Once they announced that they were going to switch to the Cogat to find "highly-able" students, I knew that the magnet program was shifting away from truly serving the top "high-able" cohort of students. Under the new testing system, white people seem to be benefiting the most. Interesting results.[/quote]

Is anybody else noticing a distinct message of[b] "If I can't have it, nobody ought have it[/b]" here?[/quote]

Totally served hot with an extra helping of racism. :(

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I was with PP until the last paragraph. Not seeing data that shows a drop in top highly able kids accepted, just a shift to a different set of top highly able kids. But a truly enriched home school program in all the middle schools seems like a win win for everyone. [/quote]

MCPS does not disclose the data. In the past, they always disclosed the median scores of those accepted. As to highly able, there is a spectrum within 99%. 99.9% is different from 99.0%. [/quote]

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