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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can parents "game" a system undergirded by test-in magnet programs unless their kids are very bright and prepare diligently for the tests?  Assiduous study is "gaming" the system?  [/quote]

The purpose of public G&T programs is to raise up kids who are innately smarter, not those who have been overprepped to make it look like they're smarter.  I think what you're looking for is a private school.[/quote]

You can't disaggregate the two, the brains and the prep, at least not neatly, or be certain that the latter is a byproduct of affluence.

I'm a Boston Latin and MIT grad from a low SES immigrant background. I don't think I was "innately smarter" than peers in the 6th grade, when I took the entrance exam for BL.  I just read a lot more than the average bear, for fun, and was willing to do more math than I was assigned at school, with help from relatives with math smarts (none of whom had been able to attend college).  I think what you're seeing is a system that can't possibly support a meritocracy.  I don't see that. Well-off parents can pay for all the prep they want without necessarily producing a bright spark who puts nose to the grindstone.  [/quote]

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