Algebra 2 is currently offered at TPMS

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Anonymous wrote:This is really tiresome. There is a crazy mom from the DCC who repeatedly harps on how only the "rich" Potomac schools "offer" AIM to 5th graders.

This is completely untrue but she has some kind of mental illness and she is also racist so she takes time out of her day every month to post misinformation.

Many schools, including the Silver Spring elementary my child attended, will allow on kids on a case by a case basis to to up a level in math. Other schools including many in Potomac, Bethesda and Chevy Chase will not allow acceleration under any circumstances and will not even entertain conversations with parents about it.

Cold Spring is unusual because it has allowed more kids to accelerate than many others but that school has been the highest performing elementary according to MCPS in recent years so it makes sense to me that there would be more high performing kids.


I feel just the opposite. There is some crazy entitled parent who keeps trying to cover up that only a few wealthy schools offer these opportunities to their children. I appreciate that they've helped exposed this.
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Anonymous wrote:A lot of crazy to go around. Some people concoct some twisted scenario on why they and their progeny don’t get the success and recognition they deserve. I’d put in the same basket the “rich Potomac Algebra” and “unfair red shirting” posters that used to visit any threat that was even tangentially related to their crusade. They post obsessively to raise awareness on the injustices that plague society but oddly only seem to affect their child.

There’s no convincing, reasoning, presenting facts that can make them change their mind, since they’re dealing with a coping mechanism to explain the objective facts that their child is not the genius they want them to be. In their mind accepting the truth of the child being average in some narrow academic sense is equivalent to utter failure. The irony is that this attitude is failing the very kids they are supposedly fighting for.


Nevertheless, the county is failing us by providing enrichment at a few wealthy schools that isn't available to all our students.


Agree, and TPMS doesn't even want to offer Algebra in 6th. They only do it reluctantly for a handful of students who have already taken AIM at one or two ES that offer this option.


So TPMS has an Algebra II class just for the half-dozen 8th graders who came from one of the wealthy ES offering AIM to their 5th graders?



Yes, that's why they were busing them to Blair. Not sure why they changed this.
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Anonymous wrote:A lot of crazy to go around. Some people concoct some twisted scenario on why they and their progeny don’t get the success and recognition they deserve. I’d put in the same basket the “rich Potomac Algebra” and “unfair red shirting” posters that used to visit any threat that was even tangentially related to their crusade. They post obsessively to raise awareness on the injustices that plague society but oddly only seem to affect their child.

There’s no convincing, reasoning, presenting facts that can make them change their mind, since they’re dealing with a coping mechanism to explain the objective facts that their child is not the genius they want them to be. In their mind accepting the truth of the child being average in some narrow academic sense is equivalent to utter failure. The irony is that this attitude is failing the very kids they are supposedly fighting for.


Nevertheless, the county is failing us by providing enrichment at a few wealthy schools that isn't available to all our students.


Agree, and TPMS doesn't even want to offer Algebra in 6th. They only do it reluctantly for a handful of students who have already taken AIM at one or two ES that offer this option.


So TPMS has an Algebra II class just for the half-dozen 8th graders who came from one of the wealthy ES offering AIM to their 5th graders?



Yep, but this year it’s more like 20.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:This is really tiresome. There is a crazy mom from the DCC who repeatedly harps on how only the "rich" Potomac schools "offer" AIM to 5th graders.

This is completely untrue but she has some kind of mental illness and she is also racist so she takes time out of her day every month to post misinformation.

Many schools, including the Silver Spring elementary my child attended, will allow on kids on a case by a case basis to to up a level in math. Other schools including many in Potomac, Bethesda and Chevy Chase will not allow acceleration under any circumstances and will not even entertain conversations with parents about it.

Cold Spring is unusual because it has allowed more kids to accelerate than many others but that school has been the highest performing elementary according to MCPS in recent years so it makes sense to me that there would be more high performing kids.


Isn't Cold Spring the school with the bus that goes to Dr. Li's for after-school care and test prep?
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Anonymous wrote:A lot of crazy to go around. Some people concoct some twisted scenario on why they and their progeny don’t get the success and recognition they deserve. I’d put in the same basket the “rich Potomac Algebra” and “unfair red shirting” posters that used to visit any threat that was even tangentially related to their crusade. They post obsessively to raise awareness on the injustices that plague society but oddly only seem to affect their child.

There’s no convincing, reasoning, presenting facts that can make them change their mind, since they’re dealing with a coping mechanism to explain the objective facts that their child is not the genius they want them to be. In their mind accepting the truth of the child being average in some narrow academic sense is equivalent to utter failure. The irony is that this attitude is failing the very kids they are supposedly fighting for.


Nevertheless, the county is failing us by providing enrichment at a few wealthy schools that isn't available to all our students.


Agree, and TPMS doesn't even want to offer Algebra in 6th. They only do it reluctantly for a handful of students who have already taken AIM at one or two ES that offer this option.


So TPMS has an Algebra II class just for the half-dozen 8th graders who came from one of the wealthy ES offering AIM to their 5th graders?



Yep, but this year it’s more like 20.


If by 20 you mean fewer than 12, then sure.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of crazy to go around. Some people concoct some twisted scenario on why they and their progeny don’t get the success and recognition they deserve. I’d put in the same basket the “rich Potomac Algebra” and “unfair red shirting” posters that used to visit any threat that was even tangentially related to their crusade. They post obsessively to raise awareness on the injustices that plague society but oddly only seem to affect their child.

There’s no convincing, reasoning, presenting facts that can make them change their mind, since they’re dealing with a coping mechanism to explain the objective facts that their child is not the genius they want them to be. In their mind accepting the truth of the child being average in some narrow academic sense is equivalent to utter failure. The irony is that this attitude is failing the very kids they are supposedly fighting for.


Nevertheless, the county is failing us by providing enrichment at a few wealthy schools that isn't available to all our students.


Agree, and TPMS doesn't even want to offer Algebra in 6th. They only do it reluctantly for a handful of students who have already taken AIM at one or two ES that offer this option.


So TPMS has an Algebra II class just for the half-dozen 8th graders who came from one of the wealthy ES offering AIM to their 5th graders?



Those parents could teach a masterclass in opportunity hoarding.
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Anonymous wrote:This is really tiresome. There is a crazy mom from the DCC who repeatedly harps on how only the "rich" Potomac schools "offer" AIM to 5th graders.

This is completely untrue but she has some kind of mental illness and she is also racist so she takes time out of her day every month to post misinformation.

Many schools, including the Silver Spring elementary my child attended, will allow on kids on a case by a case basis to to up a level in math. Other schools including many in Potomac, Bethesda and Chevy Chase will not allow acceleration under any circumstances and will not even entertain conversations with parents about it.

Cold Spring is unusual because it has allowed more kids to accelerate than many others but that school has been the highest performing elementary according to MCPS in recent years so it makes sense to me that there would be more high performing kids.


I feel just the opposite. There is some crazy entitled parent who keeps trying to cover up that only a few wealthy schools offer these opportunities to their children. I appreciate that they've helped exposed this.


The only thing exposed is that your child was not capable of taking advantage of the opportunities that were offered.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of crazy to go around. Some people concoct some twisted scenario on why they and their progeny don’t get the success and recognition they deserve. I’d put in the same basket the “rich Potomac Algebra” and “unfair red shirting” posters that used to visit any threat that was even tangentially related to their crusade. They post obsessively to raise awareness on the injustices that plague society but oddly only seem to affect their child.

There’s no convincing, reasoning, presenting facts that can make them change their mind, since they’re dealing with a coping mechanism to explain the objective facts that their child is not the genius they want them to be. In their mind accepting the truth of the child being average in some narrow academic sense is equivalent to utter failure. The irony is that this attitude is failing the very kids they are supposedly fighting for.


Nevertheless, the county is failing us by providing enrichment at a few wealthy schools that isn't available to all our students.


Agree, and TPMS doesn't even want to offer Algebra in 6th. They only do it reluctantly for a handful of students who have already taken AIM at one or two ES that offer this option.


So TPMS has an Algebra II class just for the half-dozen 8th graders who came from one of the wealthy ES offering AIM to their 5th graders?



Those parents could teach a masterclass in opportunity hoarding.


I’m really curious with what kind of copium you’ll come up for college admissions? Choose the correct answer:

A. The wealthy
B. Opportunity hoarding
C. Algebra in 6th
D. Preppers
E. Minority students
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of crazy to go around. Some people concoct some twisted scenario on why they and their progeny don’t get the success and recognition they deserve. I’d put in the same basket the “rich Potomac Algebra” and “unfair red shirting” posters that used to visit any threat that was even tangentially related to their crusade. They post obsessively to raise awareness on the injustices that plague society but oddly only seem to affect their child.

There’s no convincing, reasoning, presenting facts that can make them change their mind, since they’re dealing with a coping mechanism to explain the objective facts that their child is not the genius they want them to be. In their mind accepting the truth of the child being average in some narrow academic sense is equivalent to utter failure. The irony is that this attitude is failing the very kids they are supposedly fighting for.


Nevertheless, the county is failing us by providing enrichment at a few wealthy schools that isn't available to all our students.


Agree, and TPMS doesn't even want to offer Algebra in 6th. They only do it reluctantly for a handful of students who have already taken AIM at one or two ES that offer this option.


So TPMS has an Algebra II class just for the half-dozen 8th graders who came from one of the wealthy ES offering AIM to their 5th graders?



Those parents could teach a masterclass in opportunity hoarding.


Their MO is to pressure their local ES into offering enrichment above and beyond the rest of the county and then argue their kids are more deserving of other opportunities. It was an effective strategy up until the county started using local norms.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of crazy to go around. Some people concoct some twisted scenario on why they and their progeny don’t get the success and recognition they deserve. I’d put in the same basket the “rich Potomac Algebra” and “unfair red shirting” posters that used to visit any threat that was even tangentially related to their crusade. They post obsessively to raise awareness on the injustices that plague society but oddly only seem to affect their child.

There’s no convincing, reasoning, presenting facts that can make them change their mind, since they’re dealing with a coping mechanism to explain the objective facts that their child is not the genius they want them to be. In their mind accepting the truth of the child being average in some narrow academic sense is equivalent to utter failure. The irony is that this attitude is failing the very kids they are supposedly fighting for.


Nevertheless, the county is failing us by providing enrichment at a few wealthy schools that isn't available to all our students.


Agree, and TPMS doesn't even want to offer Algebra in 6th. They only do it reluctantly for a handful of students who have already taken AIM at one or two ES that offer this option.


So TPMS has an Algebra II class just for the half-dozen 8th graders who came from one of the wealthy ES offering AIM to their 5th graders?



Those parents could teach a masterclass in opportunity hoarding.


Their MO is to pressure their local ES into offering enrichment above and beyond the rest of the county and then argue their kids are more deserving of other opportunities. It was an effective strategy up until the county started using local norms.


Of course, it never dawned on you that those kids are more deserving than your child. It’s just that parents and schools are colluding and scheming to make it look that way. Who would have thought that talent, hard work and real interest is an effective strategy! You’re such a weird combination of sad and funny!
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of crazy to go around. Some people concoct some twisted scenario on why they and their progeny don’t get the success and recognition they deserve. I’d put in the same basket the “rich Potomac Algebra” and “unfair red shirting” posters that used to visit any threat that was even tangentially related to their crusade. They post obsessively to raise awareness on the injustices that plague society but oddly only seem to affect their child.

There’s no convincing, reasoning, presenting facts that can make them change their mind, since they’re dealing with a coping mechanism to explain the objective facts that their child is not the genius they want them to be. In their mind accepting the truth of the child being average in some narrow academic sense is equivalent to utter failure. The irony is that this attitude is failing the very kids they are supposedly fighting for.


Nevertheless, the county is failing us by providing enrichment at a few wealthy schools that isn't available to all our students.


Agree, and TPMS doesn't even want to offer Algebra in 6th. They only do it reluctantly for a handful of students who have already taken AIM at one or two ES that offer this option.


So TPMS has an Algebra II class just for the half-dozen 8th graders who came from one of the wealthy ES offering AIM to their 5th graders?



Those parents could teach a masterclass in opportunity hoarding.


Their MO is to pressure their local ES into offering enrichment above and beyond the rest of the county and then argue their kids are more deserving of other opportunities. It was an effective strategy up until the county started using local norms.


So a pride storms the ES office demanding enrichment and acceleration and that works?
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Cold Spring is unusual because it has allowed more kids to accelerate than many others but that school has been the highest performing elementary according to MCPS in recent years so it makes sense to me that there would be more high performing kids.


I don't know if Cold Spring is the highest-performing ES, but an after-school activity bus for test prep at Dr. Li's picked up there because it was so popular.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:An obsessive poster is crazily resurrecting old threads in a mission to prove that algebra 2 isn’t offered at TPMS.

But reposting threads from several years ago is irrelevant to what is happening this year, which is that there is an algebra 2 class at TPMS, and kids are not being bussed to Blair. Maybe that wasn’t the case last year, or won’t be next year (I have no idea) but this year, it is taking place at TPMS.

There’s even a video to prove it.

Crazy poster, you are wrong. Call the school if you want, they’ll confirm it. Now drop it.


This has nothing to do with Judy that school.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:This is really tiresome. There is a crazy mom from the DCC who repeatedly harps on how only the "rich" Potomac schools "offer" AIM to 5th graders.

This is completely untrue but she has some kind of mental illness and she is also racist so she takes time out of her day every month to post misinformation.

Many schools, including the Silver Spring elementary my child attended, will allow on kids on a case by a case basis to to up a level in math. Other schools including many in Potomac, Bethesda and Chevy Chase will not allow acceleration under any circumstances and will not even entertain conversations with parents about it.

Cold Spring is unusual because it has allowed more kids to accelerate than many others but that school has been the highest performing elementary according to MCPS in recent years so it makes sense to me that there would be more high performing kids.


Dcc parent. Our kids skip aim. It is offered.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is really tiresome. There is a crazy mom from the DCC who repeatedly harps on how only the "rich" Potomac schools "offer" AIM to 5th graders.

This is completely untrue but she has some kind of mental illness and she is also racist so she takes time out of her day every month to post misinformation.

Many schools, including the Silver Spring elementary my child attended, will allow on kids on a case by a case basis to to up a level in math. Other schools including many in Potomac, Bethesda and Chevy Chase will not allow acceleration under any circumstances and will not even entertain conversations with parents about it.

Cold Spring is unusual because it has allowed more kids to accelerate than many others but that school has been the highest performing elementary according to MCPS in recent years so it makes sense to me that there would be more high performing kids.


Dcc parent. Our kids skip aim. It is offered.


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