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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the 4 schools?[/quote]

I know three are Blair, Wootton, and Churchill.  It was in some slides presented at one of the BOE meetings.  I don’t know the fourth.

It’s not like Wootton and Churchill are the closest schools to Blair, suggesting proximity isn’t the main driver of who utilizes the program.[/quote]

Ah someone posted the data above.  The fourth is WJ. [/quote]

Yet Whitman and BCC are further away and send relatively few kids to the program.  BCC and Whitman have more NMSF than the above schools, so it's hard to argue that they're lacking in talent there.[/quote]

The schools above send many of their MMSF to Blair which is why Blair is typically so well represented. Even saying Blair (which is the biggest high school in the county) is one of the biggest feeders to SMCS is disingenuous. Even with the leg up of anchored slots in the middle school magnets for Takoma Park that feed SMCS, Blair only sends a small group of kids every year (less than 10) per grade (Out of a freshman class of almost 1000) out of the 110 magnet admissions per grade. Hell the county most likely bumped it up from 100 to get the couple of local kids in.  Truth is 261 kids from the 5 Ws take up 60% of the total slots and the other 12 High schools only manage 40% combined. That 60/40 split doesn't even take into account it isn't prioritized or pushed at BCC and Whitman where the need to hunt for peer group is minimal and money provides way more access to colleges than any course load in a public school will ever hope to.

Truth is that without that influx of talent into Blair it will fall precipitously in standing and test scores in the new reginal model [/quote]

The special Blair curriculum does not exist to give kids good PSAT scores.  Parents provide their kids test prep independently of school offerings, just as many parents put their kids in MAP test prep to get into Blair.  [/quote]

760 Math before they even enter 9th grade, and 730 verbal definitely isn't coming from listening to audiobooks in English class.
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What evidence do you have that all these Blair students took the PSAT before 9th grade and got those scores?[/quote]

You can impute PSAT scores from MAP scores from that cohort.[/quote]

No you can't do that.  What are you smoking?  [/quote]

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