Magnets, Regions, and the Future of MCPS Gifted Kids

[Anonymous]

The Blair Magnet is not going to be the Blair magnet as it us now It will be a STEM program that ya nut based on the old magnet. Blair will probably be better then the other ones to be start to because of the existing teachers and facilities.

At least IB has an outside standard to meet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So by this count there are about 400 families who should care about the future of these exclusive and exclusionary programs. The unwashed thousands of other students in the county should just admire The Chosen Ones from afar and be cheered by the fact that Iron Sharpens Other People's Iron? Come on.

I believe that the point of OP was that the 'unwashed ones', how you call them, will not gain anything and that magnet rehaul needs a different approach. Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strongest suit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What is the purpose of a magnet school?

The purpose of a magnet school is to attract white students to schools full of black students, in order to desegregate the school district, increase political power for gaining resources for that school and to game the "schoolwide" performance metrics to show "equity".

A "gifted program" is no the same as a "magnet school"

How very Nice White Parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So by this count there are about 400 families who should care about the future of these exclusive and exclusionary programs. The unwashed thousands of other students in the county should just admire The Chosen Ones from afar and be cheered by the fact that Iron Sharpens Other People's Iron? Come on.

I believe that the point of OP was that the 'unwashed ones', how you call them, will not gain anything and that magnet rehaul needs a different approach. Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strongest suit.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Blair Magnet is not going to be the Blair magnet as it us now It will be a STEM program that ya nut based on the old magnet. Blair will probably be better then the other ones to be start to because of the existing teachers and facilities.

At least IB has an outside standard to meet.

The Blair magnet will have legacy classes, teachers, and reputation and will be in a much better position than new fangled stem magnets in other regions. Since it is clearly very important to MCPS that B-CC and Whitman kids have access to highest quality STEM it's quite likely that they will put some effort into preserving as much of Blair magnet as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Blair Magnet is not going to be the Blair magnet as it us now It will be a STEM program that ya nut based on the old magnet. Blair will probably be better then the other ones to be start to because of the existing teachers and facilities.

At least IB has an outside standard to meet.

The Blair magnet will have legacy classes, teachers, and reputation and will be in a much better position than new fangled stem magnets in other regions. Since it is clearly very important to MCPS that B-CC and Whitman kids have access to highest quality STEM it's quite likely that they will put some effort into preserving as much of Blair magnet as possible.

And Blair, Einstein, and Northwood who are also in region 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Blair Magnet is not going to be the Blair magnet as it us now It will be a STEM program that ya nut based on the old magnet. Blair will probably be better then the other ones to be start to because of the existing teachers and facilities.

At least IB has an outside standard to meet.

The Blair magnet will have legacy classes, teachers, and reputation and will be in a much better position than new fangled stem magnets in other regions. Since it is clearly very important to MCPS that B-CC and Whitman kids have access to highest quality STEM it's quite likely that they will put some effort into preserving as much of Blair magnet as possible.

But the STEM curriculum will be totally different and the students will be chosen by lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Magnets are not getting kids into college or even winning them national level awards. This is all about parent support and resources. These parents will make this happen no matter what high school they attend.

This is just not true. I went to RMIB and then HYPSM. I absolutely wouldn’t have been as prepared for college nor do I think I would’ve gotten into the college I attended without the IB program at RM. Those teachers were world class. Out of the 30-40 peers I was close to in the program, only one lived in the “W” school district, and I dont know of any examples of those from the other nonRM IB schools making it to top 20 colleges year on year.

OP is right. This absolutely needs to be stopped and completely rehauled.

I appreciate your perspective, but, plenty of MCPS students are making it into HYPSM from other schools. This data is published in Bethesda Magazine every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Magnets are not getting kids into college or even winning them national level awards. This is all about parent support and resources. These parents will make this happen no matter what high school they attend.

This is just not true. I went to RMIB and then HYPSM. I absolutely wouldn’t have been as prepared for college nor do I think I would’ve gotten into the college I attended without the IB program at RM. Those teachers were world class. Out of the 30-40 peers I was close to in the program, only one lived in the “W” school district, and I dont know of any examples of those from the other nonRM IB schools making it to top 20 colleges year on year.

OP is right. This absolutely needs to be stopped and completely rehauled.

I appreciate your perspective, but, plenty of MCPS students are making it into HYPSM from other schools. This data is published in Bethesda Magazine every year.

By saying plenty, have you really checked the data and check your math? Their add-up couldn't make to the number of RMIB. Blair is not a feeder school to HYPSM traditionally, but extremely well-yielded to top tier STEM universities.

[Anonymous]

As I former RM IB kid with two kids who graduated from Blair I have to say that the desire to hog resources for the few slots in the IB / Blair STEM programs is not the right move and the new regional will be better with more slots and locations closer to where people live.

The dirty secret is that most of the magnet kids can and will excel at whatever high school they choose. Many of those kids who go to MIT from Blair will still get into MIT (just from different high schools). More kids should be given opportunities for advance coursework if they want to go down that path closer to home.

[Anonymous]

It’s just new gatekeeping to replace the old gatekeeping. This way they don’t have to provide the best advanced programs to all the students who qualify for them while also getting people’s hopes up that their particular high school age children will have “access” to those programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s just new gatekeeping to replace the old gatekeeping. This way they don’t have to provide the best advanced programs to all the students who qualify for them while also getting people’s hopes up that their particular high school age children will have “access” to those programs.

Yep to this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I former RM IB kid with two kids who graduated from Blair I have to say that the desire to hog resources for the few slots in the IB / Blair STEM programs is not the right move and the new regional will be better with more slots and locations closer to where people live.

The dirty secret is that most of the magnet kids can and will excel at whatever high school they choose. Many of those kids who go to MIT from Blair will still get into MIT (just from different high schools). More kids should be given opportunities for advance coursework if they want to go down that path closer to home.

so now that you no more have any stakes in this discussion you are going to be "generous" with other people's kids. what a jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I former RM IB kid with two kids who graduated from Blair I have to say that the desire to hog resources for the few slots in the IB / Blair STEM programs is not the right move and the new regional will be better with more slots and locations closer to where people live.

The dirty secret is that most of the magnet kids can and will excel at whatever high school they choose. Many of those kids who go to MIT from Blair will still get into MIT (just from different high schools). More kids should be given opportunities for advance coursework if they want to go down that path closer to home.

This is how alumni do by pointing figures at the programs that you and your kids took full benefits from? Can’t you see a tiny bit that the new regional magnets will not create the same quality nor enhancing the access (through using a low bar and then lottery)? Shame on you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Blair Magnet is not going to be the Blair magnet as it us now It will be a STEM program that ya nut based on the old magnet. Blair will probably be better then the other ones to be start to because of the existing teachers and facilities.

At least IB has an outside standard to meet.

The Blair magnet will have legacy classes, teachers, and reputation and will be in a much better position than new fangled stem magnets in other regions. Since it is clearly very important to MCPS that B-CC and Whitman kids have access to highest quality STEM it's quite likely that they will put some effort into preserving as much of Blair magnet as possible.

"Legacy" didn't save TPMS from collapse when The Lottery arrived