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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]They already list "FARMS" as one of the factors considered by the admissions committee - last year and this year.  Why this additional calculation?[/quote]
There are three factors that affect a child's performance on these types of tests. The child's innate ability, their own SES (FARMS vs. UMC), and the SES of the school they are attending. Presume the purpose of the magnet testing is to try to find children with innate ability that are in [i]need[/i] of the opportunities provided in a different school than their home school (if you want to argue this, please start a different thread). Dividing the testing group into three cohorts and comparing within those cohorts seems like a reasonable way to try to adjust for the affect that the current school has on current student performance. FARMS students in an UMC school should be benefiting from that setting and more closely reaching their potential. And the converse is true too. UMC students in a high FARMS rate school are likely not reaching their full potential yet. Students in a CES school should absolutely only be compared with similar schools - they are already receiving a huge benefit that should reflect in improved test scores.

Ideally, every student would be challenged in their home school with a rigorous program perfect for them. Everyone wants the best thing for their child. However, since that isn't happening anytime soon, there has to be some way for the system, which serves all of the students in the county, to allocate its resources as fairly and equitably as possible. You may disagree with the school system's goals, or may disagree with their process, but I for one am glad to see that there is some complexity and thought going into their new process. Everyone was complaining that there was no transparency last year. Well, now they are providing more information. Don't complain that they did.[/quote]

Citation? Where is it said that there are three factors that impact performance on tests and that these three are the most important or that should be taken into account for gifted programs? Gifted programs is a small subset of programming for public schools and yet MCPS seems to think that increasing diversity in these programs is the be all end all of success.[/quote]

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