Is Cold Spring HGC the only HGC targeted by MCPS for denying entrance to MS magnet programs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The county is offering a selective program under the guise of being race neutral but implements a policy specifically designed to put more AA and Hispanics in the program. I think there is a case to be made.

Think about this scenerio:

Lets say that MCPS decides that there are not enough Asian and White kids getting free lunch. They decide that there is no longer a requirement to apply for free and reduced lunch and instead decide to have teachers and administrators identify a large group of kids who seem like they might be a good fit to get free lunch. They then ask all these families for their income. Letters come in the mail and there are families told that even though they only make $10k/yr their kids won't be getting free lunch because they have a peer group in Middle School who can give them part of their free lunch. There are kids from Bethesda/Potomac whose families make ($ unknown) that are given free lunch because they don't have a peer group of free lunch kids at their home MS.

First people move to Bethesda and Potomac so that their children can attend "good" -- i.e., segregated -- schools. And then they complain that MCPS is making decisions based on their schools being segregated. (And then they compare access to a magnet program to access to food.)

Is this the thread where a PP advised asking yourself what your argument would sound like to somebody who isn't from Bethesda or Potomac? That's good advice.

I think there's some truth in your point here. For example, lots of people specifically try to find housing in Churchill/Wootton instead of RM/QO/GB just because they want to be in the clusters that have low FARMS, and where their kids will be surrounded by high-performing cohorts.

Then when MCPS takes these same factors into account, they cry that it's unfair that they have to stay with their high-performing cohort while students in the clusters they systematically try to avoid are allowed to leave their lower-performing cohort.

Definitely some irony in it all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The county is offering a selective program under the guise of being race neutral but implements a policy specifically designed to put more AA and Hispanics in the program. I think there is a case to be made.

Think about this scenerio:

Lets say that MCPS decides that there are not enough Asian and White kids getting free lunch. They decide that there is no longer a requirement to apply for free and reduced lunch and instead decide to have teachers and administrators identify a large group of kids who seem like they might be a good fit to get free lunch. They then ask all these families for their income. Letters come in the mail and there are families told that even though they only make $10k/yr their kids won't be getting free lunch because they have a peer group in Middle School who can give them part of their free lunch. There are kids from Bethesda/Potomac whose families make ($ unknown) that are given free lunch because they don't have a peer group of free lunch kids at their home MS.

First people move to Bethesda and Potomac so that their children can attend "good" -- i.e., segregated -- schools. And then they complain that MCPS is making decisions based on their schools being segregated. (And then they compare access to a magnet program to access to food.)

Is this the thread where a PP advised asking yourself what your argument would sound like to somebody who isn't from Bethesda or Potomac? That's good advice.

I think there's some truth in your point here. For example, lots of people specifically try to find housing in Churchill/Wootton instead of RM/QO/GB just because they want to be in the clusters that have low FARMS, and where their kids will be surrounded by high-performing cohorts.

Then when MCPS takes these same factors into account, they cry that it's unfair that they have to stay with their high-performing cohort while students in the clusters they systematically try to avoid are allowed to leave their lower-performing cohort.

Definitely some irony in it all.

It might be except for the fact that the instruction level at the home school is not the same as those in te CES. That's what people are fighting for. You really think these parents wouldn't keep their kids at their home school if the home school provided the same enrichment?

I'm in the RM cluster, btw, and I don't think it's just the W school parents complaining about the change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in the RM cluster, btw, and I don't think it's just the W school parents complaining about the change.

From the standpoint of a RM parent, what specifically don't you like about the change?