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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just call central they will tell you your child’s Localized Norm. I [b]promise[/b] they did not make a mistake, you child just [b]isn’t[/b] the strongest amongst their peers in your school. [/quote]

Really, you can promise? where were you when students who were definitely above the "norm" and "met" bogus "criteria" were not pooled, yet another year students who did not meet the "criteria" were pooled and not just one but three from same class in same school were selected from a "lottery?" Do explain since you seem to be able to know.[/quote]

What are you even talking about? Just drop the [b]conspiracy theories[/b].[/quote]

?? What conspiracy theories.[/quote]

DP but the poster they were responding to has somehow convinced themselves that there is actually not a lottery and it's all a lie that a whole bunch of people in MCPS have somehow conspired to cover up.  Based I guess on some kids being picked that they're somehow certain did not meet the criteria (let me guess, these "undeserving" kids were not white and/or were poor?) so because of course those kids could not possibly be eligible for the lottery if her kid wasn't, it must actually be secretly not a true lottery?

What would you call that if not a conspiracy theory?[/quote]

There are conspiracy theories and then there are conspiracy theories.

Some come from an incomplete (or utter lack of) understanding.  FARMS-rate tranches of schools and how MCPS does local norming.  Use of a locally normed 70th percentile for those with an IEP, 504, English learner designation or who personally are on FARMS (all of which would be private information). The need for the grades and reading level in the first marking period.  Etc.

Others come from observation about who got in.  Perhaps this overlaps with the first for some, but there have seemed to be quite a few where sets of families seem to have repeated success that would be statistically very unlikely, and this pattern seems to persist over years.  That is all anecdotal, and one might expect [i]some[/i] statistical variation that would see one family or other get lucky.  Collect enough anecdotes and they become data, however...[/quote]

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