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[quote=Anonymous]You probably feel very emotional and invested in this, but beware: I don't think you're seeing it very clearly.

1. The school WANTS to (maybe needs to) send kids to the CES. Doesn't really matter if they're your kids or not. With MCPS being very focused on equity these days, they may PREFER to send kids that aren't your kids and keep your kids at the home school...no deals needed to keep them happy.

2. They don't have to offer you anything, and even if they do, principals leave all the time. We had two leave over the summer (after 3rd, after 6th) with no warning.

3. Frankly, and I don't think you mean to be like this, you and your "pact" sound obnoxiously presumptuous, to assume that 1. your kids will get in (especially in the much wider lottery-based system) and that 2. you won't come across as really entitled with a request like this. You have NO idea how other kids test. You may know they receive free lunch, or seem different than your kid, but you have NO IDEA where the other kids stand with these admissions. Is this perhaps an effort to sidestep rejection, if you're all worried your kid will not be admitted, or worse, will be the only one not admitted of the "core group?" I get that, but let it go. You'll all be fine.

4. You can make all the pacts you want: guarantee you that at least 1, probably more, families will still enter the lottery and send their kid if they are admitted.

I have a kid to went to CES 3 years ago with the different type of admissions. It was great. If I were you, and could swing the transit, I'd just see what happens and go if you get in. It's a great program. [/quote]

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