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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There is no school in MCPS that sent zero kids to a CES. [/quote]

THIS is exactly why the whole "cohort of peers" is a complete and total lie by MCPS.  If it were true that they were [b]only taking out kids who are total outliers[/b] at their schools, then there would be schools with zero kids at the CES.  Surely, there are many schools with a group of 3, 5, or even 8 kids who are fairly evenly talented academically.  Or schools without ANYONE who qualifies to be within the top 3% of the county.  But still, one or two from each school get selected for CES and the others are SOL at their home school, stuck doing the same worksheets and craft projects as the other kids.  [/quote]

It is not true. 
PP, you truly are stuck in an alternate reality. It is [i]sometimes[/i] true, and one of several factors MCPS used in the process.[/quote]

NP. +1, PP. Sometimes true.

A girl from our school - from a first-generation immigrant Chinese family - got accepted. Her father has literally lived at our school starting from K (I guess his government job gave him this ample opportunity), volunteering for every single event and knowing everyone and everybody. He micromanaged his kid education down to the selection of books she read. He was hanging out in class every Friday.  And, of course, for the girl, there were Kumons, Mathnasiums, and, the culmination of it all, A plus with the entire fall semester worth of Cogat prep.

Honestly, I have seriously mixed feelings about this. That girl is not a genius, not even close (as fate would have it, she used to be good friends with my child, until intense test-prep put too many demands on her schedule), but the sheer amount of determination/time/money/effort and opportunity cost that went into this girl's admission makes me think, hey, that dad did it. Mission accomplished, and, in some twisted way, it is fair.

However, this has nothing to do with 'gifts' and 'talents', this is outright cramming on the part of the child coupled with curry favoring on the part of the parent.

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