Is it good or bad that MCPS placed Magnet schools in the lowest performing schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AS students are succeeding because of their home life and their parents. That kind of parenting will never happen in AA and HI households. They have too many social, mental and cultural issues that bring them down, putting energy towards educating their kids is low down on their priorities. They are struggling as family units on very basic issues.

MCPS can give them everything except change their homelife and switch out their parents. They will always be at a disadvantage. It is the effect of historic slavery and breakdown of family units for generations. We cannot understand this level of dysfunction. The difference between AA blacks and African blacks who have immigrated here is of day and night.

The difference between basically ANY group in their home country, and those with the resources to emigrate, are day and night.

Have you tried navigating the US immigration process? You need intense resources, both financial and personal, to be successful.

But I can't help but notice you've brought this back to race, and the supposed deficiencies of certain groups. Which is weird, because MCPS didn't use race as a factor in magnet school admissions. They did use geography, but that's something relatively fungible. If you or your child would like to benefit from a geographic preference, you are very welcome.

[Anonymous]

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seriously -- these people show no resilience at all. I wonder what would happen if they had to deal with real hardship.....

Try immigrating to a country with no education, not knowing the language and raising four little children, then having those kids become educated with good paying jobs. Then report back on dealing with "real hardships".

--signed an Asian immigrant whose family fits that bill

DP. Yes, those are real hardships. Not getting into a middle-school magnet program is not. I'm glad that we agree.

[Anonymous]

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Clearly, they're not publishing this data because some blithering moron would go on DCUM and whine about how their kid's spot was taken by a URM with a 0.0001 lower test score despite the decision being more nuanced.

BINGO. The same folks who have been saying for years that East County schools are hellholes are now going to dither over .0002 percentage points between their well-prepared and well-supported kid and a kid who didn't have their child's advantages.

0.0002 percentage points or 40?

The people on this board are splitting hairs on which 99% is more worthy. So yes 0.0002% seems likely. I'm fine with transparency, but I don't think a tenth of a percentage point should matter as much as the presence of a cohort. Transparency would prevent abuse and provide accountability, but there will be so much whining and bickering by people who want to game the rules in their kid's favor that this board will become even less bearable.

[Anonymous]

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seriously -- these people show no resilience at all. I wonder what would happen if they had to deal with real hardship.....

Try immigrating to a country with no education, not knowing the language and raising four little children, then having those kids become educated with good paying jobs. Then report back on dealing with "real hardships".

--signed an Asian immigrant whose family fits that bill

DP. Yes, those are real hardships. Not getting into a middle-school magnet program is not. I'm glad that we agree.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

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seriously -- these people show no resilience at all. I wonder what would happen if they had to deal with real hardship.....

Try immigrating to a country with no education, not knowing the language and raising four little children, then having those kids become educated with good paying jobs. Then report back on dealing with "real hardships".

--signed an Asian immigrant whose family fits that bill

DP. Yes, those are real hardships. Not getting into a middle-school magnet program is not. I'm glad that we agree.

Exactly

But getting in makes dealing with real hardships a bit easier.

- been there, done that

[Anonymous]

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seriously -- these people show no resilience at all. I wonder what would happen if they had to deal with real hardship.....

Try immigrating to a country with no education, not knowing the language and raising four little children, then having those kids become educated with good paying jobs. Then report back on dealing with "real hardships".

--signed an Asian immigrant whose family fits that bill

DP. Yes, those are real hardships. Not getting into a middle-school magnet program is not. I'm glad that we agree.

Exactly

Then why mention about how not getting into MS magnet means those kids can't deal with any hardships? What makes people think these kids aren't resilient just because their parents feels that these kids weren't treated fairly by MCPS?

I can tell you that not being treated fairly does the opposite of what you think -- it makes you more resilient. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing that these kids were treated unfairly. Whenever anyone is treated unfairly, there is something wrong in the system.

[Anonymous]

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Then why mention about how not getting into MS magnet means those kids can't deal with any hardships? What makes people think these kids aren't resilient just because their parents feels that these kids weren't treated fairly by MCPS?

I can tell you that not being treated fairly does the opposite of what you think -- it makes you more resilient. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing that these kids were treated unfairly. Whenever anyone is treated unfairly, there is something wrong in the system.

I expect that the PPs were referring to the parents, not the kids. It's the parents who are posting on DCUM about the epic injustice of their children not being admitted to the TPMS SMCS program.

[Anonymous]

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seriously -- these people show no resilience at all. I wonder what would happen if they had to deal with real hardship.....

Try immigrating to a country with no education, not knowing the language and raising four little children, then having those kids become educated with good paying jobs. Then report back on dealing with "real hardships".

--signed an Asian immigrant whose family fits that bill

DP. Yes, those are real hardships. Not getting into a middle-school magnet program is not. I'm glad that we agree.

Exactly

Then why mention about how not getting into MS magnet means those kids can't deal with any hardships? What makes people think these kids aren't resilient just because their parents feels that these kids weren't treated fairly by MCPS?

I can tell you that not being treated fairly does the opposite of what you think -- it makes you more resilient. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing that these kids were treated unfairly. Whenever anyone is treated unfairly, there is something wrong in the system.

frankly its the parents who don't sound very resilient. I have no idea about the kids -- they don't post on dcum.

[Anonymous]

frankly its the parents who don't sound very resilient.

I think the parents are SCARED. The middle class is eroding, and folks feel like the only way their own child can have a middle class lifestyle is to be at the tippity top at every stage, starting in 3rd grade and moving onward.

So, I get it, but folks need to have a little more faith in their kids, and in their own parenting.