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.. at the expense of others based on where they live.  It's not about "hoarding". It's about equitable access, which this new method does not provide in the case of "peer cohort".  If they did away with the cohort nonsense, the whole thread would go away.[/quote]

I am pretty sure that it's ironic for parents who live in Bethesda and Potomac to complain about inequitable access in the context of MCPS, but my intuitive understanding of irony has been messed up since 1995 (damn you, Alanis Morissette).

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it is inequitable access to a magnet program that the district provides supposedly to everyone, but they ding you if you have a peer cohort at your home school. That's not equitable access.

If you are referring to the fact that those rich kids in Bethesda and Potomac have more access to enrichment both in and outside of school, that's not enrichment provided by the school district.   If it were, then it would be inequitable.[/quote]

I am referring to the fact that kids who don't live in Bethesda and Potomac don't have access to the "good schools" in Bethesda and Potomac. Which was a feature, not a bug, for many parents in Bethesda and Potomac -- until MCPS started more explicitly considering home-school peer cohort for the magnet admissions process this year.

Tell you what. First we'll get rid of zoning by geographic location. Any kid can go to any school in the county. Or maybe kids can be assigned to schools by lottery. Then we'll remove the home-school peer-cohort part of the magnet admissions process. Sound good to you?[/quote]

BINGO!@[/quote]

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