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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just the top 15 percent. They also have to have had all As in the prior year.[/quote]

That is not hard to do, particularly in ES.[/quote]

Disagree with you about it being so easy to get straight As in ES. My DC was admitted to TPMS a few years before the lottery system was implemented, with a B in their 5th grade science class. It was a class that met only twice a week, and where the teacher basically just gave them some  materials and said ‘do something with this.’ The teacher themself told me that a third of the class got a B, and this was at a CES. There is nothing wrong my DC’s science abilities. They got straight As all the way through at TPMS. I thank god every damn day that they were considered for TPMS under the old system, and feel terrible for kids under the current lottery system, who get knocked out if the lottery pool for getting a B in math or science, regardless of their other qualifications. [/quote]

Yeah.  My kids are a bit younger so I’m reading this out of curiosity, but I’m appalled if it’s really true that a single B would knock you out of contention?  Also, wouldn’t that just make grade inflation worse if a teacher knows (and parents know) that the kids have to get straight As to be considered?[/quote]

Why would this impact grade inflation? The ES teachers don’t care who gets accepted to CES so have no reason to align grades as such.  And if there was someone that they felt really needed a different program to thrive they would just bring that child up with their principal/gifted liaison/counselor. [/quote]

I mean, just from personal experience this is one of the reasons grade inflation is an issue at colleges and universities. [/quote]

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