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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids are back in school, what’s the reason they can’t administer CogAT now?[/quote]

I guess they finally realized it's easily gamed by those who prep so they decided it was doing more harm than good.[/quote]

I wish we could move beyond the same back-and-forth arguments here.

Yes, some kids "prep." Other kids do not. Some kids don't prep in the sense of memorizing test strategies (and questions!), but are in such highly enriched environments that there's not much school can offer them above what their parents are already paying for in the private sector.

Some kids are already attending schools with a robust high achieving cohort. Others are outliers within their entire schools.

These are real challenges, and a lottery is not really the way to deal with any of them. It won't differentiate the extremely gifted kids from the merely highly enriched, nor will it necessarily pick up the kid who is an outlier and would not otherwise have a peer group.

The real challenge that I see, though, is that MCPS seems committed to not providing real acceleration/enrichment in home schools. If they would just agree to offer enriched classes starting in middle school, and to cohorting the kids who would otherwise have been eligible to attend the MS magnets, so much of this furor would subside.

Maybe that's the upside of the lottery? It might actually increase parental pressure on MCPS to do what they said they would do and offer cohorted enriched and accelerated classes to "gifted/advanced" kids in their home schools. [/quote]

So you're advocating for tracking? Isn't that considered harmful?[/quote]

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