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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At today's BOE meeting someone said that they started putting kids in CM who didn't make the cut off but that the school recommended and those students have been doing well. [/quote]

My understanding is that it's common to put in at least a few kids that don't make the cut-off because they need to round up the numbers to make a class. Like if there are only 20 kids that make the cut-off, but there are 25 kids average per 4th grade class, they'll add in another 5 kids that were close to the cut-off, so that the remaining teachers don't have to have more than 25 kids in their non-compacted math class.  I don't know if anyone then tracks whether those kids do better or worse than the kids who were above the cut-off.  I'm sure we all know folks who were waitlisted at X school, but graduated near the top of the class.... unfortunately, in any assessment system, there are going to be a lot of clear "yes"s and a lot of clear "no"s and then a fuzzy middle where it's basically sort of random.
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That was not the sense of the statement though.  It was a purposeful experiment to see if it could be left up to the schools and MCPS has decided that it can be left to the individual schools. [/quote]

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