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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spoke to my son's teacher. Each principal is handling things differently. My principal is moving everyone forward but they are going to review everyone at the end of the 1st quarter and knock kids down who are not ready. He said that other schools are following the county recommendations and moving kids down for the start of the year as it can be traumatic to have to switch classes midway through. I am not sure what is best, but I know I will be working with my child this summer.[/quote]

Wow, that's very different than our case, where they're planning to cut down from 3/4 compacted math classes in the school to just 1/4. They said that compacted math was always meant for a very small subset of kids, but we know that the kids at our school are much more advanced in math than the average. For instance, my son got a 95th percentile nationally on the Cogat, whereas in MCPS it was just 77th, but we know that the MCPS score was based on schools with similar FARMs rates. (And not all kids take the Cogat.) My point being probably a lot more than 25% of the kids at our school are in the top 10-15% nationally in math and that they are not served by the regular curriculum. They're making it sound like you have to be a genius to be in compacted math and I just don't think that's the case.[/quote]

MCPS has the same scores for all the schools, not just the rich schools.  All kids who take the Cogat.[/quote]

Not according to this: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/curriculum/specialprograms/elementary/Understanding%20the%20CES%20Selection%20Process%204.419.pdf
"MCPS CogAT® percentiles are locally normed percentiles established based on the three sections of the CogAT®. Gifted and talented experts recommend the use of local norms as an equitable approach to ensure equity and access in identification of students for program access."

"The locally normed percentiles on the CogAT® assessment were created from the distribution of Standard Age Scores (SAS) for students based on the socioeconomic status of elementary schools"

I'm not saying I disagree with the approach necessarily, I just don't like the fact that it's somehow hidden.[/quote]

MCPS is in an island of their own.  My kid got very high scores and wasn't selected into the Magnet for middle in a high farms school.  I suspect it also has to do with race.[/quote]

If s/he wasn't a straight 99% in testing plus straight As, then there were many other students that outperformed.[/quote]

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