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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You will quickly learn that none of this transparent. There are not enough spots for qualified students.[/quote]

MCPS even admits that much.  All the kids on the Wait List are equally qualified.  They choose off of the await List based on pure lottery.

That basically means that ALL the Wait List kids could benefit from a CES, there just are not enough seats.[/quote]

Yes and no. I think they should either greatly narrow the program admissions or greatly expand it. There are very few real outliers but a lot of 99th percentile kids. They should either take those very top kids, a dozen or maybe less by my guess at each CES, and give them their own program or double the number of seats in the CES. I also think grades should be weighted less than test scores at this age. I think the CESes should serve kids with great potential who might otherwise get lost in the system. If the kids are testing at levels similar to a decent sized peer group and getting straight As then by definition they are doing well at their home school and maybe don't need the program. But if they are testing well but not getting all As there's something amiss and maybe they need a different type of teaching. That's my 2 cents. [/quote]

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