Takoma, Easter Magnets. MCPS Pilots Universal Evaluation Process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is so pathetic about this is that while MCPS may have intended to reduce the Asian students in favor of other minority students, the end result after admit acceptances seems to be replacing higher performing Asian students with lower performing white DCC students. White privilege is alive and well and the white DCC mommies on this thread are busy protecting it! They could care less about Latino or AA students and are constantly, desperately seeking more URM whites to "save" their neighborhood schools, want to bus the poor kids out of their schools , and push for schools within schools so their kids don't mix with the other lower performing population. Biggest bunch os hypocrites on the planet.

The whole thing is a big cluster. No one is happy except the DCC white mommies who think they benefited somehow. Actual URM students were not helped in any way. MCPS is yet again in legal hot water this time for racial selection thinly disguised as geographic discrimination. Principals and teachers got screwed when the central office tried to dig themselves out at the last minute by creating faux enriched classes that didn't exist.

Where are you getting this data?

Probably came as a revelation during the same trance in which this was written. Seems like PP was at the keyboard during a pretty serious medical event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This could have been solved much more equitably with a simpler approach. MCPS should have taken the 25 set aside seats for TPES and marked those as only available to FARMS students from anywhere in county. MCPS should have announced plans to open another real magnet in up county or the west with another 25 seats set aside for FARMS only kids. All other spots go the highest scoring kids - merit based no profiling. There is a lot of poverty in Germantown and some sections of Gaithersburg, its unreasonable to expect these kids to take 1.5 hour or longer bus ride across the county two times a day.

This solution would achieve the goal of including more URM students and benefit everyone except the UMC white kids that take the easier TPMS spots, which should be fine. There is no valid argument for why white rich kids in TP need some type of special access at the expense of everyone else.

This PP does not seem to know about the existence of the MS magnet programs for the upcounty (Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Magruder, Northwest, Poolesville, Quince Orchard, Seneca Valley, Watkins Mill clusters) at Roberto Clemente MS and Martin Luther King Jr. MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is so pathetic about this is that while MCPS may have intended to reduce the Asian students in favor of other minority students, the end result after admit acceptances seems to be replacing higher performing Asian students with lower performing white DCC students. White privilege is alive and well and the white DCC mommies on this thread are busy protecting it! They could care less about Latino or AA students and are constantly, desperately seeking more URM whites to "save" their neighborhood schools, want to bus the poor kids out of their schools , and push for schools within schools so their kids don't mix with the other lower performing population. Biggest bunch os hypocrites on the planet.

The whole thing is a big cluster. No one is happy except the DCC white mommies who think they benefited somehow. Actual URM students were not helped in any way. MCPS is yet again in legal hot water this time for racial selection thinly disguised as geographic discrimination. Principals and teachers got screwed when the central office tried to dig themselves out at the last minute by creating faux enriched classes that didn't exist.

Wasn't there going to be a lawsuit? I kept reading on DCUM that there was going to be a slam-dunk lawsuit. What happened to that lawsuit? I haven't heard anything about it.

[Anonymous]

MCPS has not released the Magnet test scores but the state does provide PARCC scores for the county. Here are the grade 5 English and math results for students who “exceeded expectations “

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/ParccTrends.aspx?PV=71:5:15:AAAA:1:N:6:13:1:2:5:1:1:2:3

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/ParccTrends.aspx?PV=71:5:15:AAAA:1:N:6:13:2:2:5:1:1:2:3

[Anonymous]

Just another loopy conspiracy theories with zero supporting evidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS has not released the Magnet test scores but the state does provide PARCC scores for the county. Here are the grade 5 English and math results for students who “exceeded expectations “

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/ParccTrends.aspx?PV=71:5:15:AAAA:1:N:6:13:1:2:5:1:1:2:3

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/ParccTrends.aspx?PV=71:5:15:AAAA:1:N:6:13:2:2:5:1:1:2:3

Although PARC is unrelated to magnet selection, it clearly demonstrates that PARC has a serious cultural bias.

[Anonymous]

PARC is a state-mandated test that measures minimal competency. Results are shown as a percentage of students who show that competency as in pass or fail. It is hardly a measure of giftedness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PARC is a state-mandated test that measures minimal competency. Results are shown as a percentage of students who show that competency as in pass or fail. It is hardly a measure of giftedness.

It does measure competence which is also required to succeed in a rigorous Magnet program. The number of students who “exceed expectations “ is relatively low (around 10%) so it cannot be a super easy test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARC is a state-mandated test that measures minimal competency. Results are shown as a percentage of students who show that competency as in pass or fail. It is hardly a measure of giftedness.

It does measure competence which is also required to succeed in a rigorous Magnet program. The number of students who “exceed expectations “ is relatively low (around 10%) so it cannot be a super easy test.

Exactly, PARC measures minimal competence and is scored as pass or fail.

This is hardly a measure of giftedness, nor an issue for the top 1% of students in the county who attend the magnets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just another loopy conspiracy theories with zero supporting evidence.

And, as with many conspiracy theories, the absence of any supporting evidence is just further proof that the conspiracy theory is correct...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARC is a state-mandated test that measures minimal competency. Results are shown as a percentage of students who show that competency as in pass or fail. It is hardly a measure of giftedness.

It does measure competence which is also required to succeed in a rigorous Magnet program. The number of students who “exceed expectations “ is relatively low (around 10%) so it cannot be a super easy test.

Exactly, PARC measures minimal competence and is scored as pass or fail.

This is hardly a measure of giftedness, nor an issue for the top 1% of students in the county who attend the magnets.

True but it does give a sense of how many children have the basic skill set.
It is too bad MCPS is not providing Magnet test results this year for the first time. That would be more helpful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just another loopy conspiracy theories with zero supporting evidence.

And, as with many conspiracy theories, the absence of any supporting evidence is just further proof that the conspiracy theory is correct...

Is that you Donald?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARC is a state-mandated test that measures minimal competency. Results are shown as a percentage of students who show that competency as in pass or fail. It is hardly a measure of giftedness.

It does measure competence which is also required to succeed in a rigorous Magnet program. The number of students who “exceed expectations “ is relatively low (around 10%) so it cannot be a super easy test.

Exactly, PARC measures minimal competence and is scored as pass or fail.

This is hardly a measure of giftedness, nor an issue for the top 1% of students in the county who attend the magnets.

True, nobody with any knowledge of PARC believes a passing score relates to giftedness. If you believe this kind of nonsense, you may as well be comparing hat sizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
True but it does give a sense of how many children have the basic skill set.
It is too bad MCPS is not providing Magnet test results this year for the first time. That would be more helpful

MCPS has never provided magnet test results, as far as I know, aside from median score of admitted students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARC is a state-mandated test that measures minimal competency. Results are shown as a percentage of students who show that competency as in pass or fail. It is hardly a measure of giftedness.

It does measure competence which is also required to succeed in a rigorous Magnet program. The number of students who “exceed expectations “ is relatively low (around 10%) so it cannot be a super easy test.

Exactly, PARC measures minimal competence and is scored as pass or fail.

This is hardly a measure of giftedness, nor an issue for the top 1% of students in the county who attend the magnets.

True, nobody with any knowledge of PARC believes a passing score relates to giftedness. If you believe this kind of nonsense, you may as well be comparing hat sizes.

It is the only test result made available to the public for grade 5. At a minimum you can think of “exceeding expectations “ as the bare minimum level of proficiency required for a middle school magnet. Looks like only 10% approximately of Grade 5 meet this admittedly low bar