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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That is a major generalization. I am in W cluster, and never prep my kids. Never sent them to any prep classes either. Why am I penalized, I don't know.[/quote]
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I agree, too.  Definitely feels like we're being penalized and I'd love to hear how exactly that's not the case.  Definitely losing my faith in MCPS.[/quote]

How, specifically, is MCPS penalizing you?

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Isn't the cohort criterion penalizing W clusters?
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I’m a different poster, but this doesn’t seem unequal to me. Your school has a large enough group of high performers to have enriched classes at your home school. Many schools do not, so kids are left without peers and without opportunities for enrichment. So they go to the magnet. I don’t see who loses there.[/quote]
Have you looked at the "enriched classes"?  Please.  You think one or two enriched classes for high performers who scored better than those who got into magnets using "peer cohort" is better than a whole magnet program?  If that's the case, then MCPS could have provided the enrich classes at TP and moved the  magnet to the western side of the county where there are a lot more higher performers.  And yes, there are a lot more higher performers on the western side of the county. Even MCPS' own reports show this.[/quote]

The idea that there are somehow more high-performers on the western part of the county seems more like wishful thinking on the part of some parents. [/quote]

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