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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest started Kindergarten in MCPS in 2004. There has always been more demand for these gifted/enriched magnets than spots.

If I had a magic wand:

1. Offer magnet math, magnet social studies, and magnet English at all middle schools. If there are is no cohort, kids can go to another school. Our MS curriculum is terrible. The majority of families would be happy in home MSs with a more rigorous curriculum.

2. Expand the number of seats in middle school magnet programs by adding more locations, like they have expanded the test-in HS magnet programs. With these expanded seats they can let in all the outliers (98%+ on cogat or map or whatever) and then do a lottery for everyone that is between 98% and 85% to fill the remainder of the spots. We have a ton of highly able students in this county. Let's make the pie bigger.
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You are actually drawing lines between kids who scored 98 and 99 percent?

THIS EXAM IS ONE MOMENT FROM ONE DAY OF THEIR LIVES. 
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That’s the rub though, right?  Wherever you draw the line, there will be kids who just missed it. And those kids will have parents. [/quote]

And that is why a lottery makes such good sense. Easy enough to see when a good student has a poor test day and when a poor student has a good test day. [/quote]

This is the dumbbest post I came across on this entire forum. Looks like from a middle school dropout. Does not understand the fact that test scores for many parents here means not one day or two.. it is consistent trend across multiple years aboce 95 percentile. 
Lottery for magnet program shows unqualiified people in MCPS roles.
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