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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if the OP will come back to update, but a heads up that they used the home school, not the CES school, when determining the peer cohort. This becomes relevant when the home school has a dramatically different poverty rate than the CES school, like Woodlin or Sligo Creek  and Oak View for example..

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Yes, which also means kids in the same class will have different criteria to get in.[/quote]

Which is seriously so messed up. [/quote]

Yet actually makes sense since the goal is to determine if students have a ready peer group in their home school. [/quote]

That is not the goal. If that were the goal they wouldn’t include any kids from schools with robust peer groups and they would sweep up all the kids who definitely don’t have a peer group. [/quote]

Just a friendly reminder that the model you described did exist at one point. In maybe 2019, MCPS moved to a system where they were ostensibly selecting outliers from higher needs schools, while introducing "magnet level" courses in home schools around the county by bringing in AIM and HIGH.

Two things destroyed that initiative (well, three if you count MCPS leadership at the time not being able to follow a plan from year to year):

1) Principals were given discretion in how to "gatekeep" or not HIGH and AIM. Some principals rolled it out to everyone due to pressure from parents (W feeders), and others rolled it out to everyone due to equity concerns (DCC feeders). Within a couple of years, the idea of HIGH and AIM as "magnet level" but at home schools was dead, and then the introduction of "Advanced English" for all put the final nail in the coffin of meeting the needs of highly able learners at home schools.

2) A group of Potomac parents with K and 1st grade kids filed a lawsuit about the new system because they argued that prioritizing kids with no peer cohort constituted anti-Asian discrimination, even though more Asian American kids live outside Potomac than live inside it.

As a result of item 2) we ended up with the current lottery system. [/quote]

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