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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think that's necessarily true as there are lots of kids, ours included, who do not formallly supplement but score well. But I acknowledge that's from years of being in an environment that probably enriched them just by being at the dinner table. This is why MCPS used to use the Cogat too and that picked up some kids who have the ability to do better but are not for some reason.

I think using some kind of ability screening is really important at the elementary level because you have the time to develop those kids in a targeted way. [/quote]

This. The current lottery process with a low-bar MAP threshold pool criterion is truly systematic discrimination against any kid with talent but not living in good school zone nor has parent support/outside enrichment. 
Not just MCPS. As a first-generation immigrant who work from many years in high education system, I don't understand why the help was not provided from the very beginning when kids are all blank papers and all start from a similar scratch line. The leg-up and resource tilting is significant starting somewhere from HS or college, but it's too late already. [/quote]

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