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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in the magnet and I can honestly tell you that they enjoy it.  DC loves hanging out with the cohort of super smart kids who make learning a fun and challenging experience.  We have no regrets.

I am not the PP, but responding to that post, I am guessing that they are dissing the lottery policy that is diluting the ES and MS magnets.  Thankfully, as of now, the county is not interfering with the selection policy of the HS magnet programs.[/quote]

Not only is there no lottery policy for high school but the rising [b]9th graders also didn’t go through the lottery.[/b][/quote]

I thought they started lottery for MS magnet 4 years ago, the first lottery cohort are in already 10th grade now, how’s the rising 9th grader not part of the lottery??[/quote]

No, current 9th graders took Cogat in fall 2020 and were notified they got into the magnet in Jan 2020. No lottery.[/quote]

There used to have a magnet admission test + cogat, then they switched to Cogat +  lottery 4 years ago, looks like it changed again 2 years ago to just grade +  lottery.  The quality of magnets student went down a lot since 4 years ago, I heard they had problem finding qualified kids for the math team.. [/quote]

This is BS. There is no indication of a change in the students and the current 8th graders DID NOT go through a lottery.[/quote]
They were from the previous change where they introduced local norms which some claimed would result in the end of life as we known it. It made almost no difference.[/quote]

Local norms caused more cut-throat situation, but the kids selected for magnet MS programs are still pretty good. HS acceptance criteria didn't change much this year. The CES and local smart kids that were declined by the magnet MS programs all got accepted by SMACS or CAP or RMIB, as far as I can tell from a sample of about 100 kids. [/quote]

Local norms made the process more inclusive by putting a damper on the impact of prepping had on the selection process. The result was a less toxic environment.[/quote]

This is what you expected for... Looking at the threads here regarding Blair SMACS admission and decision-making, you'll picture TPMS magnet as the most toxic horrifying environment and these kids sound like they are going to bully other kids at Blair. That's simply not the case. Pre-local norm or after local norm, the majority of the selected kids are smart, kind, supportive, and benefitting from the magnet curriculum and the peer group. There's always one or two mean kids, no matter in magnet or local. That's still going to be the case for the Blair SMACs. However, lottery process unsubscribes a good amount of smart kids from being able to access the curriculum, and the worst thing is these kids are scattered in local schools. There's no peer group anymore (probably still peer group in CES, but not magnet MS).  [/quote]

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