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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]

It did make a difference but not as much as people thought. The kids from the lottery are more noticeably different according to what teachers have said.[/quote]

THIS IS IRRELEVANT! Whatever you think about the lottery does not apply as the current 8th graders didn’t go through it![/quote]

They went through the previous revision of the system that added local norms.[/quote]

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