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They essentially say that with regards to the CES.  Our CES had a Wait List last year of about 80 kids.  MCPS told parents that the Wait Lit was a pure lottery system.  Meaning that every one of those kids on the Wait List was equally qualified to get into the CES.
Which of course, leads to the question of why they don’t expand the program so that all the kids who should be admitted, do get admitted.  Different discussion though.[/quote]

It depends on how you define "all the kids who should be admitted." The selection committee divided up kids into four categories:

Limited
Substantial
Definitive
Exceptional

What we were told is that there were very few exceptional kids. These are the kids admitted first with 99th percentile scores across the board in MAP and on Cogat, straight As. The second category which is definitive is large, the substantial category even larger. The wait list is full of kids from the definitive or substantial categories largely based on peer cohort. ESOL, FARMS kids get a boost. SN kids in these categories may get another look to make sure they aren't being discriminated against so a child known to have dyslexia applying to Takoma may not get penalized for having 99th percentile scores everywhere but  a lower score for reading. If you just take all the exceptional kids there are not enough to fill the programs. You could say they are actually allowing MORE kids into these programs than really need to be there. This is where I think the peer cohort argument makes sense because if you have a strong student in a school full of strong students and the child is not a super outlier I don't think that child will necessarily suffer but if you have a strong student in a school full of not so great students that student may not have a great experience and may lose motivation.[/quote]

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