More than 6,385 third-graders participated in the selection process, according to the school system. About 1,120 students were accepted or actually placed on the waiting list.

Md. school [MCPS] district mistakenly told third-graders they were on waiting list for gifted program

Thousands of Montgomery County families were mistakenly told their elementary-school-age children had been placed on a waiting list for a program that enrolls gifted students. In truth, they hadn’t been accepted.

The letters arrived April 20 at the homes of more than 5,265 families. The news was promising: Each family’s third-grader was on the waiting list for one of the school system’s Centers for Enriched Studies, which exist at 13 elementary schools and offer accelerated curriculums to gifted students.

Days later, parents received a second letter retracting the first one. The second letter told parents the students’ current elementary school can meet their “accelerated and enriched programming needs,” according to a copy of the letter that parents shared.

Derek Turner, a spokesman for Montgomery County Public Schools, apologized for the mistake, blaming it on a “printing error.”..

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