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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know how they actually select students for these programs?  They can't have time to interview them all, can they?  Do they use intelligence tests or something like that?  At the elementary and middle school levels they mostly use MAP scores which don't really tell you much about intelligence or potential (just what topics kids have been exposed to and retained), but they must have something better for high school, right?  [/quote]
They used to use Cogat instead of MAP, but I think they didn't like that white/Asian students typically did better in Cogat, so they thought if they switched to MAP it would capture more URM kids.

Here's the thing though, MCPS own numbers show that, statistically, white/Asian students do better in MAP, as well.

So, then MCPS tried the "no peer cohort  at the home school criteria" admissions for the MS, and provided "enriched" classes at the home school,  but that failed, too, because as people have stated, you can't mirror the success of the magnet programs without the same curriculum, trained teachers, and the peer cohort.

So, now they are trying for regional programs at the HS level, but again, that won't work out as well because again, you can't recreate a magnet program across all six regions without the qualified teachers, especially in STEM, and the peer cohort of top students from the county.[/quote]

You could create 100 magnets if you had 100x the number of elite work ethic students. Notice I didn’t say genius because most of them are not, just studious by either natural drive or tiger moms. It’s the distillation of the students from such a large and affluent pool that is MoCo and not the program or teachers. Yes there is better teachers and or opportunities but those kids would go to great colleges even in general pop at Kennedy. There might be 2x the students who will to commit to the rigors &time while being able to keep up to the program but it is unarguably a large drain of resources for just a small fraction of students to live their best life.

The fundamental argument here is let’s lift the top 20% of students higher with a more local and nuanced education instead of empowering the top 1% even higher for similar cost. People need to get out of the DCC mind frame, the magnet gave people something to be proud about while sending their kids to lower tier schools inside the county…. A retort when the W’s thumbed their noses at them. I suspect most of the apprehension to losing the magnets isn’t so much the lost opportunity of an Asian kid who lives in Potomac or Bethesda anyway but the general feeling that the lower tier schools can’t have nice things. [/quote]

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