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[quote=Anonymous]So when my all Os & As, above grade level performing at a well-regarded MCPS ES (which consistently has 4-6 students each year move into the HGC), highly-recommended, and above median-test scoring student was not accepted into the program, I didn't think that some less-deserving student "got" my kid's spot.  Instead, as I explained to my kid going into the process, in this county (and from our school with a majority of the Grade 3 students applying), it's pretty much a crap shoot gaining admission into the magnet program
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See this not what the selection process to the best education programs in MCPS should be. No parent should accept this as ok. Since we all accept it, MCPS gets away rejecting appeal to the service needs of many.
 [quote] -- and, in our case, we are fortunate because our home school is sufficient (e.g., Math 7 in Grade 5 -- and thrilled that we're avoiding the whole Curriculum 2.0 implementation!).  [/quote]
Not everyone is fortunate to have a acceptable service available in local school. Luck should not drive our kids’ education. Policy and regulation should ensure every kid gets the appropriate education they need to reach their full potential. I hate to see so many bright kids being neglected in our school system.
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I didn't intend to equate non-acceptance into the HGC with "being neglected in our school system" but agree that every student is entitled to an "acceptable service" or academically-appropriate level of instruction in the local/home school that fully prepares the student to succeed at the next level and beyond.   I also didn't intend to suggest that "luck" should "drive our kids' eduction" but only that "luck," happenstance, arbitrariness (even within the same family as the case of the twins) or whatever you may want to call it, certainly seems to play a role in the HGC/magnet selection process because there simply are not enough seats for every qualified, well-qualified, exceptionally-qualified, overly-qualified kid who needs/wants one; so what happens to these kids -- the rejected/neglected -- is a different issue (and one I also didn't intend to wade into -- sorry for the confusion). 
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