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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Starting an application middle school looks a lot like tracking, which is legally suspect.

This is why DCPS doesn't want to do it before 9th grade:

http://usedulaw.com/333-hobson-v-hansen.html
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This lawsuit is about tracking using testing, the issue here is an application MS (no testing).  Not a good comparison.  And it still doesn't answer the question, why is an application HS OK but not an application MS.  Why is it acceptable to do at 9th grade and beyond but not 6th, 7th, and 8th?  Still no explanation.
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All the DC application high schools - OP's model - use tests as part of the admission criteria (either DC CAS or a special one, like SWW).

What criteria would you establish for your application MS? How would you choose who gets to attend or not?

The problem with introducing tracking early is that they erect barriers that students can never get around. The student who get in a track at 6th are going to always be ahead of others who don't. Foreclosing options when a student is only halfway through his/her school career is the issue. [/quote]

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