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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we are committed to a system that has fewer seats in the magnet than deserving kids, then I like the lottery. And that is speaking as a parent whose kids were in the lottery pool but didn't get a seat in the magnet.

The old system relied too much on teacher recommendations and other soft measures, which advantage the kids who sit still and color in the lines and do all the pedagogical nonsense that teachers now use. Everyone who has had kids in MCPS knows that the kids selected for magnet programs under the old system are often not the most gifted or intellectually curious or needing of extra stimulation. Certainly they were not the ones who tested the highest. They were the kids who played along the best.

So at least the lottery acknowledges the essential randomness of selection and the calls attention to the fact that we have chosen as a community not to provide the resources.[/quote]

Why not expand the program to include all deserving candidates? Don't you think this will help the future generations and achieve no child left behind goals?[/quote]

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