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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like they greatly expanded the "considered" pool for the lottery in order to get their desired demographics. For the CESes they considered 11,446 students. Isn't that almost every child in that grade? The same goes for middle schools where the "considered" pool was almost double what it was in previous years. Does anyone have an explanation for how this happened and why this was done in such secrecy?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/schoolchoice/210818%20CES%20Secondary%20App%20Prog%20Admission%20Results.pdf[/quote]

[b]I heard they're lowering the cutoff to 80% this year! They're so sneaky![/b][/quote]

The actual rumor is they're lowering it by 5% per year and this is just the beginning.[/quote]
They released this year's FAQ, and cutoff is not specified:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1in8H2GM2fA-V3knp5ijlWT2mcbxdvbs9Ul9NCA1HgwE/edit

Last year's FAQ clearly specifies 85% cutoff:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0Zy-bCfG7O8E-F64VOnit_54fjOIU_lTR1JyU8SSMg/edit
"a locally normed minimum of 85th percentile"

Sneaky is the right word describing MCPS.[/quote]

From this year’s FAQ:

What are locally normed scores?
Gifted and talented experts recommend the use of local norms of assessment scores as an equitable approach to ensure equity and access in identification of students for program access. Additionally, the current draft of Gifted and Talented Definitions from the Maryland State Department of Education includes the use of local norms as part of the gifted and talented identification process.  MCPS locally normed scores are designed to examine test takers in relation to one another within MCPS.  As part of the middle school magnet identification process, scores obtained on the MAP assessment were locally normed.

Clearly the people answering the question are not so gifted. They answered WHY use locally normed scores but they still refuse to answer WHAT are locally normed scores. Designed to examine test takers in relation to one another? That is incredibly vague and misleading. THIS is why people think they are sneaky.

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They're a very sneaky school district.
The kind you don't bring home to mother.
They're super sneak, super sneak, super sneaky![/quote]

This is why it's time to vote out the current Board - all of them need to go.[/quote]

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