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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]EEK exam is ridiculous. They don't accept anybody anymore, even children who are reading and writing. The state makes MCPS have it as an option, but it is a false one. [b] MCPS does not want children to get in anymore, unlike several years ago, where some children did get in[/b]. There is enough discretion that a teacher can just have the child barely get under the threshold in one area so that she fails. And the parents can't do anything about it because they weren't able to attend to dispute it. After all, the kid missed by just one question on just one section--the school can just say "kid must have had an off day, not our fault."

There is zero transparency in the process. The only way to even get more info is to request a meeting with the principal. [/quote]

Do you know of any statistics on EEK acceptance rates to back this up?  If your opinion is based on anecdotes only, then here are some more -- two of the three kids who applied to EEK at my kids' school got in last year (including my child), and another kid from our preschool was accepted EEK at a different school.  So children are still getting in.

Have the policies and acceptance criteria changed over the years? I'm the PP who looked for appeal info online to get an understanding of the EEK test, and the info I saw went back about 10 years and listed similar subtests and the requirement to pass each section. I would love to know if it's actually harder to get in now or if there is data showing differences in acceptance at different schools. Or perhaps this is the problem you were pointing out about a lack of transparency.[/quote]

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