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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They just need to go back to admitting the strongest candidates instead of using a lottery. Covid isn’t preventing them from administering the Cogat.[/quote]

The lottery exist because there is not enough seats in CES even for the strongest students.[/quote]
That’s not why the lottery exists. They never used a lottery until everything shut down during Covid and they had no way to administer standardized tests, so they implemented the lottery because they had no useful data to distinguish one advanced learner from another. They can test students again, so they should ditch the lottery.

[b]They probably should expand the CES seats.[/b] They definitely should expand the middle school magnets’ seats.[/quote]

Or—here’s a crazy idea—why not just offer the curriculum to a class of kids at all schools? Isn’t that what people want? To keep their elementary-aged kids at their neighborhood schools with their friends, not split them up and bus them all over the place? Or is the CES curriculum so expensive and rarefied that it can only be taught by a few special select teachers at a few special select schools? There are smart kids who qualify for CES at all schools and they should all be given enrichment without having to win a lottery and without having to leave their school. The current model makes no sense and is the opposite of equity. [/quote]

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