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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s very hard to increase the diversity while maintaining the excellence for hard science based magnet programs. TJ of FCPS tried various methods over the last two decades with no success. [/quote]

I don't think that "maintaining excellence" (if by that you mean "scores the highest") is the ultimate goal of MoCo,  and I don't think it should be.  If all you wanted was a showcase with the top scoring kids continuing to score at the top, that's easy.  Just pick the top scoring kids and not worry how they got there.  Then you have the NYC system for the three specialized high schools where admission is based on one exam, and 60-75% of the students are Asian-Americans (and, yes, maybe some are undocumented, I have no idea).  If the mayor has his way, admissions will be heavily weighted towards the top x% of the kids in each middle school city wide.  And guess what, either the percentage of Asian-American will plummet, or these will be this amazing diaspora of Asian-American students to middle-schools throughout the city.  Or maybe something in between.

De Blasio's solution is rough justice, and it's intended to give kids throughout the city a better opportunity to access what has been a great education at these specialized high schools.  And it seems to me that is roughly what MoCo is trying to do here, but with this "cohort" approach that is trying to find the outliers in any given middle school.  If you want to say that's terrible or misguided because scores of incoming students will go down, and that student body will not be as "high achieving" as in the past (both of which I suspect will be true), that's certainly anyone's prerogative.  But I don't think MoCo cares because it's made pretty clear that getting only the students with the highest scores is not the objective.

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