Thinking about the MS Humanities magnets? Are you attending tonight’s curriculum meeting?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it is relevant to kids with >85%ile MAP-R score and A in English/social study. They are in pool for the Humanity magnet MS lottery. It is true only a fraction of them are invited to the school, but I would like to know what changes are coming for my 3rd and 4th graders. Would magnet MS even continue existing?

Don't forget that it's not just >85%, but >85% locally normed, which raises the bar. Seriously, don't give it a second thought without an invitation in hand. The odds are so low that it's not worth your attention until it's worth your attention - at which point you will also be weighing commute and social environment, too.

It raises the bar in some areas, and lowers the bar in others. In a low-income school, it is well under 85th percentile nationally to be included in the lottery.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did they say about the MSMC - MS magnet consortium? My kid loves Loiederman and I hope DC gets to stay there through
8th (in 6th now).

I think for those the existing students will get to stay.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did they say about the MSMC - MS magnet consortium? My kid loves Loiederman and I hope DC gets to stay there through
8th (in 6th now).

It wasn't a magnet meeting, it was a gifted education/Accelerated and Enriched Instruction department meeting that happened to have the MS humanities magnet changes as the primary topic. They made clear that they had no knowledge of or involvement in broader decisions about whether/where/when middle school magnets would exist (except to note that they thought it was unlikely they would be allowed to spend the amount of time they're currently spending on redesigning the middle school humanities magnet curriculum if the intent was to eliminate those magnets entirely.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did they say about the MSMC - MS magnet consortium? My kid loves Loiederman and I hope DC gets to stay there through
8th (in 6th now).

It wasn't a magnet meeting, it was a gifted education/Accelerated and Enriched Instruction department meeting that happened to have the MS humanities magnet changes as the primary topic. They made clear that they had no knowledge of or involvement in broader decisions about whether/where/when middle school magnets would exist (except to note that they thought it was unlikely they would be allowed to spend the amount of time they're currently spending on redesigning the middle school humanities magnet curriculum if the intent was to eliminate those magnets entirely.)

Except that we know MCPS Central Office already has problems with divisional/departmental silos, so it still would not surprise me in the future if changes were still made to MS magnets because they haven't gotten around to communicating and coordinating about it amongst themselves.