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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When they had a more personalized review up until the pandemic that child could have made it into the magnet even if he or she had a bad day on a MAP test or Cogat. We've seen it for DC's friends who may have had a great MAP or Cogat but didn't do well on the other.

Now it's all done according to some formulas and a computer spits out kids in the lottery. This does not allow for kids who have potential or may need something extra.

I really think they need to completely rethink the magnets. The situation now is nonsense. If they are using them for equity reasons which they have said they are they need to just take the kids from the Ws out of the lottery and mandate enriched curriculum at all schools. None of those kid would have to commute and could stay with friends.

I think they've started introducing enriched curriculum at some middle schools, but time will tell how good they are.

For the less high performing schools they could keep magnets by lottery if they want and just because of our demographic distribution they will be almost all URM students which is what they want in the first place. They should still offer enriched curriculum at those neighborhood schools because regardless there will still be lots of high performers who did not get a space.

Everyone's happy. [/quote][/quote]

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