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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think adding some focus to the top 25% to the curriculum at all schools is a good thing..but the top 3-5% will lose out if the centers disappear.   [/quote]

That’s BS. I scored 99th percentile in every test I took as a kid. I did enriched programs at my home school and was perfectly fine. I think you really don’t know that many kids in those percentiles. The only kids who truly need something completely removed from all other groups of kids are the ones with IQs in the 160s and above. By definition, those are few and far between.[/quote]

Availability of enriched programs depends on the school and the population. This is why cohort matters because a critical mass of students exists at some schools to potentially differentiate further among the academically strong. [/quote]

I was in Chappaqua public schools. The demographics are essentially like Potomac. We all did fine. [/quote]

Not everyone lives in a Potomac-esque neighborhood in MOCO. [/quote]

Yep, no magnet necessary in Potomac. Just move to the Churchill or Wootton school district and you're set.[/quote]

Don’t tell that to the Cold Spring parents. My point is that Chappaqua works perfectly well without magnets and so can MCPS. Provide high quality instruction in the home schools and you’re fine. [/quote]

I think MCPS agrees with you, hence they are trying to pull students from other areas of the county that do not have a large enough cohort of students of strong academic ability to justify instruction to meet their needs at that school. MCPS currently doesn't have the resources to differentiate instruction for one or two outlier students per grade at their home school.

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I think the problem is that MCPS has not been differentiating for any advanced students.[/quote]

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