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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm fine with universal screening, but using the cohort criteria really does exclude the brighter kids. [/quote]

But don’t they get the advanced classes at their home school? I thought they send the kids who are advanced but there’s not enough (20?) other advanced kids at their school, and where there are enough kids to form a class they keep them at their home school? I’d prefer my kid be at the home school, unless the magnet is close. [/quote]
No. If it was the exact same curriculum, then yes, but it's not the same curriculum, so no.. those one or two classes does not make a magnet program.[/quote]

It does give them a peer group.  [/quote]
What good does that do if they are not getting the same exact curriculum as the magnet? They are getting a watered down version, and because they have a bigger cohort, they were not selected, but are missing out on the more challenging curriculum.[/quote]

It's not all or nothing. They're getting a more challenging curriculum (this is good), at their home school (this is also good).[/quote]

Now I would really like for someone to explain it to me in a layperson's terms. I understand the concept of 'outliers' but children from our elementary (at least the few we know personally) who were selected for the CES are not Stephen Hawkings in the making. I can vouch for that. All these children come from similar backgrounds (no one is disadvantaged), they were all attending prep classes and they all scored high on Cogat. I agree that the difference might lie in a couple of MAP percentage points, but there is no way any of them is 3 grades ahead of the class. No way.

Fast forward to this September, these children are called 'peerless outliers' and are bussed to this wonderful program where they are taught this wonderful enriched curriculum so that their 'needs' are met. But what about my child whose 'needs' are not being met because we didn't sign her up for A plus and her MAPs in math were comparatively lower?

What I would really like to see is transparency in selection process. And if it is a lottery amongst children who ,say, scored 98 and higher on the test and are in 95% percentile MAP-wise, why doesn't the county just say so?

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Pretty sure kids are not getting in who score lower than 99% in most categories, at least from the high-achieving home schools. An outlier in a lower-achieving home school might look different, but there's no lottery per se. My older DD was scoring 99% 3 grades ahead in math, and 99% 4 grades ahead in reading on MAP tests and was placed in her own reading group in 3rd grade because she had no peers at her level. Isn't that the kind of kid the CES is designed for? She has a sister who scores 98/99% at grade level. She is a bright kid, but has a number of peers, and will be fine at her excellent home school. I have no expectation that she will attend a magnet.[/quote]

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