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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Except that the highest achievers are in the magnets.[/quote]

[quote]Genuinely curious here. You know that this isn't true. MCPS has been clear that with the cohort criteria high achieving kids from high performing schools will get rejected while lower scoring kids from lower performing schools will get in.

What are you gaining from lying about something that even MCPS isn't disputing?[/quote]

[quote]Not PP, but the point is that zero feeder middle schools sent no kids under the revised system. This suggests that the highest performers in each cohort were selected. Yes, it means kids are being graded on a curve, but that's not the same as what is being alleged.[/quote]

I don't think a curve is the right analogy. There is a wide range of performance and number of high performers across the schools.

Lets say school A has the top 5 high performers in the entire county but school B only has students barely meeting the bottom of the lowered standard. 4 of the students that are at the very top of the system get rejected and the student at the bottom of the lowered standard gets in. This by definition means that the magnet is no longer made up of the highest performing students. The larger number of highest achievers are back in the top home schools. [/quote]

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