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[quote=Anonymous]^Dear "telephone tree tale" lady
I tried to highlight my post in bold so you could see who you were responding to but it did not all show up in bold.  Again, I have no connection with a tutoring service and have never used one.  There is a real obsession on dcum with tutors for some reason.  It is very unfair to the kids in the magnet programs to imply that is the main reason they get good test scores.
here is my original post:
"Although you could argue that the kids with the higher scores might need the acceleration and enrichment more.
If the higher COGAT test scores are also echoed by higher MAP R and higher MAP M scores (which you can't prep for), it does indicate that MCPS is doing this group of kids a real disservice if they are assuming there is no difference between a 135 SAS score and a 147 SAS score and if they giving undue emphasis on geography.  fwiw I don't have a kid at Cold Spring but I have been around kids in other MCPS magnet programs (ES, MS and HS) and bright high achieving kids in a regular W school district. There is some overlap but one big difference I have noticed is the thirst for knowledge you see amongst magnet kids. Perhaps not all of them, but as a group these kids love to learn and seek out challenge and something special happens when you put a group of kids like this in one place together. There are also far more genuine outliers in a magnet program than you would find in a regular school. This is why it is sad to hear what happened to the Cold Spring kids. An acceptance to a middle school magnet is not a "prize" for a kid whose parents force them to prep as some posters have implied, it is rather the only appropriate place for a large number of the kids currently in Cold Spring who received rejection letters."[/quote]

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