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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly if they’re not going to offer accelerated or enriched courses in all subjects at the home schools they should take the kids with the top scores and grades and get rid of the lottery system. What they offer at the home schools is neither comparable nor sufficient for any student who needs above grade level instruction. It is unbelievable to me that they’d take kids with lower scores/demonstrated readiness, and then refuse to meet the needs of the students they don’t have enough seats to accommodate. My own two kids never got off the lottery waiting pool lists and completely languished academically in middle school. Such a missed opportunity. [/quote]

It’s Birner by school. So those 70th percentile kids are actually way above the rest of their home school. Same as a kids in Bethesda could be in the 90s and be above most of their peers. [/quote]

Yes I understand how it’s designed, I just don’t agree with it. We don’t do this in other areas. We don’t say oh, we have two gymnasts, one is from a small mediocre local training facility and she’s the best at her facility and the other has been trained by top coaches in a competitive facility and both do a routine and score differently. We don’t then say, oh local training facility candidate scored 7/10 and top facility candidate scored a 9.5/10 on the same routine so 7/10 person should get to go to the Olympics since she was the best at her gym while the 9.5/10 person shouldn’t earn the spot since she was one of several top athletes at her gym. [/quote]

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