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Reply to "Did MCPS do a sneaky thing for the magnet lotteries?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All- Read this PP's explanation. It's an excellent and really shows that either MCPS had its thumb on the scales as someone put it so well or that the whole premise that there is an achievement gap is wrong. You can't have both and have numbers come out like that.[/quote] But you can try to have it both ways by lowering the minimum test scores (85% in ONE of two semester tests is not exactly a high benchmark) and weighting FARMS heavily. 85% is not enough to make people scream too much but that is bright not high achieving, and there is a significant difference when compared to a straight A kid who tests 99% across the board. I was p*ssed to learn the smartest kid in my 3rd grader's class, an outlier by any definition of the word, did not get into the magnet program. I had no skin in the game because I knew my child wasn't highly competitive for a slot, but I truly could not believe it when her brilliant classmate did not get in.[/quote]
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