The RFP in MCPS - are they going to gut the magnet and immersion programs or enhance them?

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Anonymous wrote:I wish that the Blair troll would at least be more interesting. Trolling is bad enough, but boring trolling is worse.

Blair can keep trying to BS the populace or name calling anyone who points out the worsening learning environment.

One thing the nasties can do is refute the truth.

PP was right about most PSAT award winners being Asian.

Um...SO? Please expand on this. It may or may not be true, I don't know why anyone cares and I'm just curious to know why you think it matters?

That poster is so full of it. She has a long history here: she's Asian and she used to live in Blair's Four Corners area but moved north to the Poolesville cluster because she didn't like that minorities were moving into the Blair neighborhood.

Also, she's a toe-curlingly bad sock puppet.

I know many non-Asian NMSSFs at Blair, because I have a kid there. At least Asian PP could use the correct name for it: it's not called a "PSAT award winner", that's just embarrassing: it's called being a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist (I'm one, and white).

Not a smart National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist as your posting shows. How can you assume you know anything accurate about anonymous posters?!!!

And, you need to check your facts. The National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists at Blair, as a PP suggested are mainly Asian.

Oy!!!

Half Asian, not mainly Asian: http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2014/MCPS-Announces-National-Merit-Scholarship-Semifinalists/

And putting "Oy" doesn't fool anybody.

http://www.justupthepike.com/2013/06/de-facto-segregation-threatens.html
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf
Blair
15.9% Asian
27.2% Black
29.6% Hispanic
23.3% White

.... and "half" the Merit Scholarship Semifinalists were Asian? How does that reflect Blair demographics?

[Anonymous]

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http://www.justupthepike.com/2013/06/de-facto-segregation-threatens.html
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf
Blair
15.9% Asian
27.2% Black
29.6% Hispanic
23.3% White

.... and "half" the Merit Scholarship Semifinalists were Asian? How does that reflect Blair demographics?

Why would you expect that the demographics of the Blair magnet program reflect the demographics of Blair overall, given that students come to the Blair magnet program from all over the downcounty?

Also, I'm still waiting for you to explain what I'm supposed to conclude from half of the National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists being Asian.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

http://www.justupthepike.com/2013/06/de-facto-segregation-threatens.html
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf
Blair
15.9% Asian
27.2% Black
29.6% Hispanic
23.3% White

.... and "half" the Merit Scholarship Semifinalists were Asian? How does that reflect Blair demographics?

Why would you expect that the demographics of the Blair magnet program reflect the demographics of Blair overall, given that students come to the Blair magnet program from all over the downcounty?

Also, I'm still waiting for you to explain what I'm supposed to conclude from half of the National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists being Asian.

That was my post and I don't expect you to conclude anything. There's nothing to conclude, except maybe that DS knew Asian kids in his TPMS magnet who started SAT prep in 8th grade (I am absolutely not making this up) and perhaps that has something to do with it.

My only goal was to refute 11/27 @15:43 who claimed that "most PSAT award winners (sic) are Asian." Also 11/27 @ 9:16 who wrote, entertainingly, "All student get PSAT at Blair are Asian."

[Anonymous]

A lot of DCUMers seem to have a lot of time on their hands!

[Anonymous]

That was my post and I don't expect you to conclude anything. There's nothing to conclude, except maybe that DS knew Asian kids in his TPMS magnet who started SAT prep in 8th grade (I am absolutely not making this up) and perhaps that has something to do with it.

My only goal was to refute 11/27 @15:43 who claimed that "most PSAT award winners (sic) are Asian." Also 11/27 @ 9:16 who wrote, entertainingly, "All student get PSAT at Blair are Asian."

Maybe it doesn't. Trying awfully hard to discredit the accomplishment of others to excuse the shortcomings, failings, and lower finishing rank of your own. Tis very natural for you to grope grotesquely and blindly for lame excuses.

[Anonymous]

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That was my post and I don't expect you to conclude anything. There's nothing to conclude, except maybe that DS knew Asian kids in his TPMS magnet who started SAT prep in 8th grade (I am absolutely not making this up) and perhaps that has something to do with it.

My only goal was to refute 11/27 @15:43 who claimed that "most PSAT award winners (sic) are Asian." Also 11/27 @ 9:16 who wrote, entertainingly, "All student get PSAT at Blair are Asian."

Maybe it doesn't. Trying awfully hard to discredit the accomplishment of others to excuse the shortcomings, failings, and lower finishing rank of your own. Tis very natural for you to grope grotesquely and blindly for lame excuses.

"Trying awfully hard to discredit the accomplishment of others to excuse the shortcomings, failings, and lower finishing rank of your own. Tis very natural for you to grope grotesquely and blindly for lame excuses." --isn't that the culture that produces low performing schools, the achievement gap, etc?

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That was my post and I don't expect you to conclude anything. There's nothing to conclude, except maybe that DS knew Asian kids in his TPMS magnet who started SAT prep in 8th grade (I am absolutely not making this up) and perhaps that has something to do with it.

My only goal was to refute 11/27 @15:43 who claimed that "most PSAT award winners (sic) are Asian." Also 11/27 @ 9:16 who wrote, entertainingly, "All student get PSAT at Blair are Asian."

Maybe it doesn't. Trying awfully hard to discredit the accomplishment of others to excuse the shortcomings, failings, and lower finishing rank of your own. Tis very natural for you to grope grotesquely and blindly for lame excuses.

Who's discrediting anybody's accomplishment?

Congratulations on your "Tis very natural for you to grope grotesquely and blindly for lame excuses." though. I couldn't write like that if I tried.

[Anonymous]

I lost track of what people are even arguing about. Maybe this thread has ran its course?

[Anonymous]

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That was my post and I don't expect you to conclude anything. There's nothing to conclude, except maybe that DS knew Asian kids in his TPMS magnet who started SAT prep in 8th grade (I am absolutely not making this up) and perhaps that has something to do with it.

My only goal was to refute 11/27 @15:43 who claimed that "most PSAT award winners (sic) are Asian." Also 11/27 @ 9:16 who wrote, entertainingly, "All student get PSAT at Blair are Asian."

Maybe it doesn't. Trying awfully hard to discredit the accomplishment of others to excuse the shortcomings, failings, and lower finishing rank of your own. Tis very natural for you to grope grotesquely and blindly for lame excuses.

Who's discrediting anybody's accomplishment?

Congratulations on your "Tis very natural for you to grope grotesquely and blindly for lame excuses." though. I couldn't write like that if I tried.

+1. But then again, not many of us try to sound that pretentious.

[Anonymous]

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That was my post and I don't expect you to conclude anything. There's nothing to conclude, except maybe that DS knew Asian kids in his TPMS magnet who started SAT prep in 8th grade (I am absolutely not making this up) and perhaps that has something to do with it.

My only goal was to refute 11/27 @15:43 who claimed that "most PSAT award winners (sic) are Asian." Also 11/27 @ 9:16 who wrote, entertainingly, "All student get PSAT at Blair are Asian."

Maybe it doesn't. Trying awfully hard to discredit the accomplishment of others to excuse the shortcomings, failings, and lower finishing rank of your own. Tis very natural for you to grope grotesquely and blindly for lame excuses.

What? How does correcting your lies, where you said variously that "all" or "most" Blair NMSSFs are Asian, amount to "discrediting anybody's accomplishments"?

To make it very clear for you: these were never real "accomplishments" in the first place, because you made it all up. You lied about these so-called accomplishments. A newspaper proved you wrong. End of story.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like the entitled are joining the low performers.

[Anonymous]

What? How does correcting your lies, where you said variously that "all" or "most" Blair NMSSFs are Asian, amount to "discrediting anybody's accomplishments"?

To make it very clear for you: these were never real "accomplishments" in the first place, because you made it all up. You lied about these so-called accomplishments. A newspaper proved you wrong. End of story.

You are bumbling and dribbling to the wrong poster. Keep it up though. You are entertaining.

[Anonymous]

+1. But then again, not many of us try to sound that pretentious

Well said. What do you try to sound like? Dumb or smart?

[Anonymous]

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What? How does correcting your lies, where you said variously that "all" or "most" Blair NMSSFs are Asian, amount to "discrediting anybody's accomplishments"?

To make it very clear for you: these were never real "accomplishments" in the first place, because you made it all up. You lied about these so-called accomplishments. A newspaper proved you wrong. End of story.

You are bumbling and dribbling to the wrong poster. Keep it up though. You are entertaining.

This sounds like the PP with a son (maybe two sons) at Wooton.

[Anonymous]

Will your imagination accommodate 4 or 5 sons at Wootton, no Churchill, perhaps Sherwood?