They should have these ste-aside seats for hosting the programs and taking on additional responsibilities. |
If the applicant attended grades 6 and 7 in McpS they would have those MP grades. |
So no COGAT, no MCAP-it’s all just MAP M or MAP R? And report cards? |
This is the unjust "justification" for inequity to which those schools with such set-asides have been clinging. The program is set up to accommodate a certain number of students. Both local-school-in-bounds and wider-catchment students are in that same program. At TPMS, for instance, it is about 125 per year. Some 100 of those are given to about 3/5 of the county by population (the other 2/5 are served by Clemente MS), maybe drawing from 7000 students (pre-criteria). By contrast, 25 are given to those in-bounds to TPMS, maybe drawing from 300 students, resulting in it being about 6 times as likely to be granted access to the program. The numbers, here, are rough, but any error is marginal to the point -- to get to parity, a significant majority (some 19-20 with that shown here) of the in-bounds set-aside seats would have to be shifted to that rest-of-the-three-fifths lottery pool. This doesn't even count the tendency of school administrators to select currently attending locals to backfill any seats that open from students deciding to leave the program early, returning to their home schools. There is capacity at TPMS, and funding for teachers for all classes follows the enrolled population. There is no reason to consider the excess set-aside seats within a magnet as "extra" to the program, as though, for some reason other than fealty to an old BOE-and-Council, back-room-brokered decision, they couldn't make all 125 part of one pool with no particular set-aside. Meeting the same criteria and having the same chance are two different animals, and the one should not be conflated with the other when two lottery pools are operated, one (the local set-aside) with a much larger seat-to-population ratio. If you believe otherwise, show your math and allow for it to be picked apart. Or you could realize that there are programs without differentially probablistic local set-asides, concede the point and save everyone the back-and-forth. |
They should get bonuses for hosting a desired program? For being local to it/not having to travel longer distances? What burden to the in-bounds community is possibly being implied, here, that makes it such that they require the set-aside-seat compensation? |
Easily. You look at the cutoff for 99th percentile and you see if you are at that or above. Either is fine. Below is more of a long shot. If I’m remembering correctly it’s about 272 in 8th grade. |
I think magnet parents like to see their kids as an unmitigated and uncomplicated blessing upon the host school, but it's just not that simple. Having a magnet program is a mixed blessing. Some of the drawbacks are small (harder to get a spot on a school activity like orchestra, math team, or drama production). Some of them are larger (loss of funding due to demographic shifts, dangerous parking lot situations due to additional busses and drivers). Not to mention the colonization of all parent discussions by the needs of the magnet kids. |
They look only at 7th grade and first marking period of 8th. 6th grade is not considered. |
Yes |
RMIB looks at both MAP-M and MAP-R. My child was admitted to RMIB with a lower MAP-M score and has thrived there but will not be pursuing HL math. |
The math is very easy. If the set aside were ended the program would lose 25 spots or the school would be 25 places bigger. The latter is not an option. I’ve two kids go through the program from that set aside. The first took Cogat and would almost certainly have been selected regardless of location (no lottery). The second was equally as high scoring but didn’t have opportunity to avoid a lottery (though i think would also have been selected in a competitive process). |
Yes |
RM looks at MAP R. MAP M is irrelevant |
+1 Also, even if they don't join in 9th grade, they can apply to join in 11th. They can also take IB classes without joining the program in 11th grade. this is the benefit of living in the cluster. |
LOL. Def Blair SMCS mom. |