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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea that the tests are sufficient to identify "truly gifted" students is ridiculous. The addition of the "peer cohort" criterion shows this for what it really was -- a social engineering effort. Which is not wrong in and of itself but dressing it up as a more objective process is not accurate.

And I agree with the overall point that MCPS is failing the smart kids, whether or not you want to call them gifted or whether that term really fits. The advanced courses and tracking so that kids are grouped and not lumped into classes needs to be offered at all home schools. I've had kids go through both a well-regarded W feeder middle school and a magnet middle school, and the W feeder middle school was a waste of three years.[/quote]

Just the opposite![b] The new and improved process does a superior job identifying truly gifted students by opening up the selection process to a much larger group than in previous years.[/b]

Sure, a bunch of affluent parents are angry because they can't buy their kids way into the magnets any longer, but this is a step in the right direction.[/quote]
hahahahaha. what planet are you from?

The only thing MCPS is doing now is socially engineering diversity into its CES and magnet programs by using a lower bar and selecting a class by race, SES, hispanic. If they were going for all the "truly gifted students" they would stack rank quantitative scores and take only the top. Not put a score bar up of 4000 kids and select 5% of whomever they feel like adds diversity.

What a hoot!

And then as the real kicker, they ceased releasing the scores of the admits![/quote]

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