Robert Frost beats Takoma Park in Mathcounts

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Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

Just curious how many of the 26 TPMS kids are 7th graders.

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Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

I mean, Frost might be in the same league. They appear to be in the same league. That's great! No "team" should be so dominant that they crush every other "team" in every competition forever and ever. If we make a sport analogy, even the best teams sometimes lose, and the same is true for athletic competitions.

If the enriched courses offered at the home schools are truly incentivizing kids to stay at Frost (or any other school), that's GREAT NEWS because there have always been more kids who can do the work than there are spots in the magnets. Making the pie bigger is the right choice here.

/TPMS magnet parent

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*same is true for academic competitions, I mean

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Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

I mean, Frost might be in the same league. They appear to be in the same league. That's great! No "team" should be so dominant that they crush every other "team" in every competition forever and ever. If we make a sport analogy, even the best teams sometimes lose, and the same is true for athletic competitions.

If the enriched courses offered at the home schools are truly incentivizing kids to stay at Frost (or any other school), that's GREAT NEWS because there have always been more kids who can do the work than there are spots in the magnets. Making the pie bigger is the right choice here.

/TPMS magnet parent

There are no enriched courses in any real sense at Frost. They beat in Mathcounts and mathleagues despite of that and by a large margin every time.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, this the predictable outcome of no longer admitting the best and brightest into the magnets. I don't think having OOB magnet students winning math competitions ever helped the low income and poor performing students at TPMS anyway so the loss of rank and prestige at TPMS in favor of a school in the western side of the county shouldn't matter to MCPS either.

What is ridiculous though is that MCPS offers a more rigorous STEM curriculum at TPMS then the other schools who now have higher performing students. They really should swap out the curriculums. Schools like Frost, Pyle and wherever the real highest performing cohort is now located at should have the more difficult curriculum and TPMS should have the enriched curriculum which would better serve its new cohort with a larger range of academic abilities.

Clueless

says you. MCPS's own stats show where the highest performers are.

FYI https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf

Every time someone posts this, I wonder anew what the heck is wrong with Westland. It makes no sense.

When my kids were at TPMS I got the sense that most of the high-performers were from Takoma and Silver Spring. I think that's why they put the magnets there, and these days parents who value their kid's education tend to live there.

What a weird comment. So parents who buy homes in Bethesda zoned for Whitman don't really value their kid's education?

Exactly. Read up on why magnets are where they are historically.

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Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

I mean, Frost might be in the same league. They appear to be in the same league. That's great! No "team" should be so dominant that they crush every other "team" in every competition forever and ever. If we make a sport analogy, even the best teams sometimes lose, and the same is true for athletic competitions.

If the enriched courses offered at the home schools are truly incentivizing kids to stay at Frost (or any other school), that's GREAT NEWS because there have always been more kids who can do the work than there are spots in the magnets. Making the pie bigger is the right choice here.

/TPMS magnet parent

There are no enriched courses in any real sense at Frost. They beat in Mathcounts and mathleagues despite of that and by a large margin every time.

Most of the top students at Frost train with Dr. Li or AoPS Academy on the side (both are only a mile or so away), so that likely explains it. If they were solely relying on the math they get in MCPS, they'd have no chance.

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Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

I mean, Frost might be in the same league. They appear to be in the same league. That's great! No "team" should be so dominant that they crush every other "team" in every competition forever and ever. If we make a sport analogy, even the best teams sometimes lose, and the same is true for athletic competitions.

If the enriched courses offered at the home schools are truly incentivizing kids to stay at Frost (or any other school), that's GREAT NEWS because there have always been more kids who can do the work than there are spots in the magnets. Making the pie bigger is the right choice here.

/TPMS magnet parent

There are no enriched courses in any real sense at Frost. They beat in Mathcounts and mathleagues despite of that and by a large margin every time.

Most of the top students at Frost train with Dr. Li or AoPS Academy on the side (both are only a mile or so away), so that likely explains it. If they were solely relying on the math they get in MCPS, they'd have no chance.

I remember Dr. Li's bus picking up kids after school every day at Cold Spring. It's funny how parents mistake prep for aptitude and ability. That's why I support the changes the county made to admissions since the old criteria just favored preppers who were gaming the system.

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Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

I mean, Frost might be in the same league. They appear to be in the same league. That's great! No "team" should be so dominant that they crush every other "team" in every competition forever and ever. If we make a sport analogy, even the best teams sometimes lose, and the same is true for athletic competitions.

If the enriched courses offered at the home schools are truly incentivizing kids to stay at Frost (or any other school), that's GREAT NEWS because there have always been more kids who can do the work than there are spots in the magnets. Making the pie bigger is the right choice here.

/TPMS magnet parent

There are no enriched courses in any real sense at Frost. They beat in Mathcounts and mathleagues despite of that and by a large margin every time.

Most of the top students at Frost train with Dr. Li or AoPS Academy on the side (both are only a mile or so away), so that likely explains it. If they were solely relying on the math they get in MCPS, they'd have no chance.

That is verifiable BS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

I mean, Frost might be in the same league. They appear to be in the same league. That's great! No "team" should be so dominant that they crush every other "team" in every competition forever and ever. If we make a sport analogy, even the best teams sometimes lose, and the same is true for athletic competitions.

If the enriched courses offered at the home schools are truly incentivizing kids to stay at Frost (or any other school), that's GREAT NEWS because there have always been more kids who can do the work than there are spots in the magnets. Making the pie bigger is the right choice here.

/TPMS magnet parent

There are no enriched courses in any real sense at Frost. They beat in Mathcounts and mathleagues despite of that and by a large margin every time.

Most of the top students at Frost train with Dr. Li or AoPS Academy on the side (both are only a mile or so away), so that likely explains it. If they were solely relying on the math they get in MCPS, they'd have no chance.

Interesting.. because Cogat is an ability and aptitude test rather than drill and kill test, and Frost students did waaay better than say SSIMs according to that chart.

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Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

I mean, Frost might be in the same league. They appear to be in the same league. That's great! No "team" should be so dominant that they crush every other "team" in every competition forever and ever. If we make a sport analogy, even the best teams sometimes lose, and the same is true for athletic competitions.

If the enriched courses offered at the home schools are truly incentivizing kids to stay at Frost (or any other school), that's GREAT NEWS because there have always been more kids who can do the work than there are spots in the magnets. Making the pie bigger is the right choice here.

/TPMS magnet parent

There are no enriched courses in any real sense at Frost. They beat in Mathcounts and mathleagues despite of that and by a large margin every time.

Most of the top students at Frost train with Dr. Li or AoPS Academy on the side (both are only a mile or so away), so that likely explains it. If they were solely relying on the math they get in MCPS, they'd have no chance.

That is verifiable BS.

This first sentence is of course crap. Yet it is true that " If they were solely relying on the math they get in MCPS, they'd have no chance.". I have never seen a kid that does well in math competitions, only rely on math they get from school.

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Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

So basically Frost had a great day but isn't in the same league and this nonsense about admissions is a false flag planted by bitter parents.

I mean, Frost might be in the same league. They appear to be in the same league. That's great! No "team" should be so dominant that they crush every other "team" in every competition forever and ever. If we make a sport analogy, even the best teams sometimes lose, and the same is true for athletic competitions.

If the enriched courses offered at the home schools are truly incentivizing kids to stay at Frost (or any other school), that's GREAT NEWS because there have always been more kids who can do the work than there are spots in the magnets. Making the pie bigger is the right choice here.

/TPMS magnet parent

There are no enriched courses in any real sense at Frost. They beat in Mathcounts and mathleagues despite of that and by a large margin every time.

Most of the top students at Frost train with Dr. Li or AoPS Academy on the side (both are only a mile or so away), so that likely explains it. If they were solely relying on the math they get in MCPS, they'd have no chance.

I remember Dr. Li's bus picking up kids after school every day at Cold Spring. It's funny how parents mistake prep for aptitude and ability. That's why I support the changes the county made to admissions since the old criteria just favored preppers who were gaming the system.

Wow. DrLi is in the math competition business now. Great! We beg the parents of the “truly gifted” identified by MCPS to send their kids to drLi or aops or whatever so that we can admire the true geniuses.

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Man, the self-identified Frost (and former Frost) families are coming off really badly in this thread.

The self-identified TPMS parents seem to mostly be congratulating the other teams and taking a "win some, lose some" mentality, whereas the folks identifying themselves as Frost parents are coming off as bitter weirdos.

Lighten up, friends. These kids are 11 or 12. They have their whole lives to either live up to their potential or not, but in the meantime, let's cheer all of them on.

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Anonymous wrote:Natural outcome of admitting Tacoma Park students based on "equity" instead of achievement.

Great job Robert Frost!!! Could not be more proud.

Parent of a graduate

diversity in abilities after the new process for MS Magnet Program!! Yes!!

Actually admissions aren't based on equity since that is illegal in the US.

It's not illegal and MCPS has said this explicity.

Race is not a factor in admissions despite your fantasy justifying how your precious didn't make the cut despite the thousands you spent on prep @DrLi's.

Race is not an explicit factor but MCPS has said very openly that their goal with the new criteria is to create "equity" and their measurements are race, FARMS status and ESOL status.

FWIW, I'm an NP and my child got in.

It's not a factor at all. Please stop spreading misinformation. MCPS changes to the admission criteria favor the truly gifted as opposed to the old system that was easily gamed by preppers.

Race wasn’t a factor, and explicitly wasn’t. But the universal testing, inclusion of factors like FARMS and ESOL, and cohort concept all clearly and explicitly were were intended by the county to address what the county perceived as a racial imbalance among those attending these programs. You have to be willfully ignorant to not accept that. Whether that means that the process identifies the “truly gifted” versus those who simply prepared a lot can be debated. The county’s goal cannot be.

I think you're assigning motives to the county that simply aren't supported by facts. The biggest change was they considered something like 5000 applicants whereas the old system considered only a few hundred whose parents applied on their child's behalf.

So you believe that they just had more kids take the test and then they just force-ranked everyone based on raw test scores and grades, and took the top 125 or so for each magnet?

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One time Frost beats TPMS and all the W parents come glowing and singing.
Even Leicester won the BPL too.

But I understand. When you beat the big dog, you gotta glow

^^ the only truthful post in this thread

I think you're right. Frost had a good day but I doubt this will happen again or is even repeatable. In fact, let's follow up on this in a couple of months and see how it pans out. Most the nonsense posted here is by bitter parents whose kids weren't able to make the cut for TPMS so they delight in trash-talking and spreading debunked conspiracy theories.

You mean MCPS admitting high performers only based on peer cohort is a conspiracy theory?

Sure, Fost had a good day, but will likely be creamed by TPMS in the state competition next month. The bitter parents whose kids failed to make the cut at TPMS will gloss over this since it doesn't support their bogus narrative.

Let’s hope that TPMS win in the state!!!!

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One time Frost beats TPMS and all the W parents come glowing and singing.
Even Leicester won the BPL too.

But I understand. When you beat the big dog, you gotta glow

^^ the only truthful post in this thread

I think you're right. Frost had a good day but I doubt this will happen again or is even repeatable. In fact, let's follow up on this in a couple of months and see how it pans out. Most the nonsense posted here is by bitter parents whose kids weren't able to make the cut for TPMS so they delight in trash-talking and spreading debunked conspiracy theories.

You mean MCPS admitting high performers only based on peer cohort is a conspiracy theory?

Sure, Fost had a good day, but will likely be creamed by TPMS in the state competition next month. The bitter parents whose kids failed to make the cut at TPMS will gloss over this since it doesn't support their bogus narrative.

Let’s hope that TPMS win in the state!!!!

Yes. Our kids will cream those sore losers from Frost.