Is MCPS positioning to shut down the GT/magnet programs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think adding some focus to the top 25% to the curriculum at all schools is a good thing..but the top 3-5% will lose out if the centers disappear.

That’s BS. I scored 99th percentile in every test I took as a kid. I did enriched programs at my home school and was perfectly fine. I think you really don’t know that many kids in those percentiles. The only kids who truly need something completely removed from all other groups of kids are the ones with IQs in the 160s and above. By definition, those are few and far between.

Availability of enriched programs depends on the school and the population. This is why cohort matters because a critical mass of students exists at some schools to potentially differentiate further among the academically strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, since these programs are put in the schools with poor people and in ghetto area or inaccessible areas (Poolesville) they should shut it down. Let W schools rule!!

When magnet students go to their home schools they are top performing students. They have higher chances of getting into Ivy schools. Affluent people and Asians will always supplement their students so that's great.

Asians will move to NoVa, because they are not wedded to any specific place in DMV, so so-called better schools like QO, NW and Damascus will become what they really are - low performing schools with all races except Asians.

Do it. I dare you, MCPS. Because Asians are already going to HoCo and schools like Centennial HS.

Classist and racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think adding some focus to the top 25% to the curriculum at all schools is a good thing..but the top 3-5% will lose out if the centers disappear.

That’s BS. I scored 99th percentile in every test I took as a kid. I did enriched programs at my home school and was perfectly fine. I think you really don’t know that many kids in those percentiles. The only kids who truly need something completely removed from all other groups of kids are the ones with IQs in the 160s and above. By definition, those are few and far between.

Availability of enriched programs depends on the school and the population. This is why cohort matters because a critical mass of students exists at some schools to potentially differentiate further among the academically strong.

I was in Chappaqua public schools. The demographics are essentially like Potomac. We all did fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, since these programs are put in the schools with poor people and in ghetto area or inaccessible areas (Poolesville) they should shut it down. Let W schools rule!!

When magnet students go to their home schools they are top performing students. They have higher chances of getting into Ivy schools. Affluent people and Asians will always supplement their students so that's great.

Asians will move to NoVa, because they are not wedded to any specific place in DMV, so so-called better schools like QO, NW and Damascus will become what they really are - low performing schools with all races except Asians.

Do it. I dare you, MCPS. Because Asians are already going to HoCo and schools like Centennial HS.

Classist and racist.

Oh, you poor deluded fool. Don't you know?

Classist and racist = American

When you remove merit from the equation then only class and race is left. That is the reason Whites are entitled and that is the reason URMs expect handouts.

This is become a nation of racist and classist people - who carry guns. There is no harm in being American and Asians need to embrace that philosophy too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, since these programs are put in the schools with poor people and in ghetto area or inaccessible areas (Poolesville) they should shut it down. Let W schools rule!!

When magnet students go to their home schools they are top performing students. They have higher chances of getting into Ivy schools. Affluent people and Asians will always supplement their students so that's great.

Asians will move to NoVa, because they are not wedded to any specific place in DMV, so so-called better schools like QO, NW and Damascus will become what they really are - low performing schools with all races except Asians.

Do it. I dare you, MCPS. Because Asians are already going to HoCo and schools like Centennial HS.

Wow. Even for DCUM, this is extremely racist.

[Anonymous]

No one advocating against these programs have a highly gifted child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
No one advocating against these programs have a highly gifted child.

You mean “has.”

[Anonymous]

At this point, I am unsure if the person posting all this crap is really a disgruntled MCPS parent or just a racist troll.

[Anonymous]

I am not the OP, but I too think MCPS is looking to get rid of the 4/5 grade magnets. Between the report, what they e done this far md the cost ofbusting, why wouldn't they?,

[Anonymous]

It seems clear that MCPS is trying to move to a model more akin to NoVa, in which the top quartile or so is getting enrichment (see Piney Branch ES).

Which....is exactly what needs to happen. For all the complaining about how there aren't enough seats, people are freaking out because they are creating more seats.

[Anonymous]

I'm not the OP and also not the racist troll. I am, however, an East County, non-Asian parent (gasp!). Yes, there are some of us who actually have kids who've been in all the magnet programs throughout. I also have one HG student who absolutely needed these programs. Do I think MCPS is looking to get rid of the magnets - yes, I do.

Do I think that it's a huge mistake - ABSOLUTELY. If you haven't lived with a truly HG child and seen how there's no way for that student to get served in a home school with the varying levels, then please don't criticize the expense of busing or the magnet model. Without the magnets, not only is instruction lacking -- even if they bring some of the magnet curriculum over to home schools -- but the peer group is as well.

You try having the genius kid (sorry, but yes, he's been tested independently) who gets crayons thrown at his back in art b/c he's too different. The kid who gets pushed down stairs b/c he follows the rules. The kid who does all the work on group projects b/c the other kids aren't taking it seriously. And yes, the kid who has a harder time socially b/c he has more difficulty than "normal" kids at reading social cues.

Without the magnets, there's no way this child could possibly stay in public in MCPS. The magnets have helped this child flourish and learn the social side -- those programs have the necessary academics, but the teachers and counselors also understand the social/emotional needs of this population of kids and helps them thrive in a more caring environment than the school that couldn't care less about the high flyers.

[Anonymous]

The new programs aren't faux GT at least there's nothing to indicate that except rumors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But isn’t it beneficial for all to provide enriched classes in all schools? I agree with the County that we need to reduce the amount of busing in any way possible and if we can meet the needs of the kids in their home schools, then we should!

Yes, the changes benefit far more students without the expense of additional bussing. I don't think the magnets are going anywhere since they still service the many schools that don't have a massive cohort of GT students.

[Anonymous]

Will the tiger moms ever let this go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think adding some focus to the top 25% to the curriculum at all schools is a good thing..but the top 3-5% will lose out if the centers disappear.

That’s BS. I scored 99th percentile in every test I took as a kid. I did enriched programs at my home school and was perfectly fine. I think you really don’t know that many kids in those percentiles. The only kids who truly need something completely removed from all other groups of kids are the ones with IQs in the 160s and above. By definition, those are few and far between.

Availability of enriched programs depends on the school and the population. This is why cohort matters because a critical mass of students exists at some schools to potentially differentiate further among the academically strong.

I was in Chappaqua public schools. The demographics are essentially like Potomac. We all did fine.

Not everyone lives in a Potomac-esque neighborhood in MOCO.