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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also lottery magnet. You can have a lottery or you can have a magnet program, not both. [/quote]

A magnet school is any school that draws students from outside set school boundaries.  MCPS already has multiple magnet programs that use a lottery to determine enrollment.  [/quote]

Those type of schools are not being discussed on this thread. We are discussing schools that kids had to get in through testing and now are being made lottery schools. The quality of cohort is bound to drop. It is just math. [/quote]

Well if previously most of the TPMS students were in the 99% and the lottery now draws from 85%+m 1/15 of this year's magnet students are similar to year's past. However, I'm told the new cohort is doing great![/quote]

Lesser than 1/15 given normal distibution. It is all great though.

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Now I'm curious.  Who says "it's all great"?  Wondering if this is the same poster that lied about MCPS publishing the distribution info.[/quote]

I don't know about any data but MCPS stated it was a lottery.  This means selections are random and close to an even distribution. I realize some posters have this wacky conspiracy theory that a lottery isn't a lottery but are unable to provide a shred of evidence for that.[/quote]
If you pay close attention, they don’t say it’s a pure lottery. They say it’s a lottery based on “locally normed” scores and provide no information on how they compose the lottery pool, for example, to ensure gender balance.

No one has conspiracy theories about anything. All people are asking for is more information and transparency from MCPS about this process. MCPS refuses to provide that information, which I think they have an obligation to. And then there’s people like you variously trying to shame/convince people that either it’s wrong for them to know/want to know, they are stupid for not understanding some unstated thing that everyone else does, or that as you explicitly state, they are crazy conspiracy theorists.

Bottom line is that there is no transparency from our government about the allocation of government resources. The government trying to keep secret the criteria for whether you qualify for receiving a benefit or other public resources is not and should not be acceptable to anyone. [/quote]

+1.  MCPS is a Public School system accountable to the taxpayer.  There are no secrets that should be kept from the public.[/quote]

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