Takoma, Easter Magnets. MCPS Pilots Universal Evaluation Process.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there official data from MCPS showing the racial makeup of the middle school magnet classes for the upcoming school year?

No, only the kids that were invited/accepted: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Is there official data from MCPS showing the racial makeup of the middle school magnet classes for the upcoming school year?

No, only the kids that were invited/accepted: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

I imagine many parents have less of an incentive to bus their children across the county when now there's enriched classes at their home school.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there official data from MCPS showing the racial makeup of the middle school magnet classes for the upcoming school year?

No, only the kids that were invited/accepted: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

I imagine many parents have less of an incentive to bus their children across the county when now there's enriched classes at their home school.

One enriched humanities class vs 3 or 4 linked Magnet humanities classes. One enriched Math class vs 3 linked Magnet STEM classes. A cohort drawn from the best students in the county. Teachers with years of experience teaching this population. I would think carefully about giving up your child’s spot

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Anonymous wrote:Is there official data from MCPS showing the racial makeup of the middle school magnet classes for the upcoming school year?

No, only the kids that were invited/accepted: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

I imagine many parents have less of an incentive to bus their children across the county when now there's enriched classes at their home school.

One enriched humanities class vs 3 or 4 linked Magnet humanities classes. One enriched Math class vs 3 linked Magnet STEM classes. A cohort drawn from the best students in the county. Teachers with years of experience teaching this population. I would think carefully about giving up your child’s spot

Yet, a teacher posted that during training it was decided that the humanities classes will not be linked this year.

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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.

Did they do so this year? This information seemed to be easily available in the past for students who were accepted as well as students who were not. You could request your child’s test scores

PARC is not used for magnet admissions since it's a test for minimal competency, not giftedness where scores are either pass or fail. There is no median.

Magnet admission consists of a range of criteria for which the CogAT is one of several factors.

I'm pretty sure it is used as one of the criteria looked at based the presentations at the information nights and the letters about the process. Student scores do go about minimal competency - a 4 meets expectations and a 5 exceeds expectations.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there official data from MCPS showing the racial makeup of the middle school magnet classes for the upcoming school year?

No, only the kids that were invited/accepted: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

I imagine many parents have less of an incentive to bus their children across the county when now there's enriched classes at their home school.

One enriched humanities class vs 3 or 4 linked Magnet humanities classes. One enriched Math class vs 3 linked Magnet STEM classes. A cohort drawn from the best students in the county. Teachers with years of experience teaching this population. I would think carefully about giving up your child’s spot

2 magnet classes at your home school, vs. 3 magnet classes at a school that may be a long bus ride away.

-magnet parent

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there official data from MCPS showing the racial makeup of the middle school magnet classes for the upcoming school year?

No, only the kids that were invited/accepted: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

I imagine many parents have less of an incentive to bus their children across the county when now there's enriched classes at their home school.

More like parents have more incentive to relocate out of MCPS or send their gifted children to DC private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there official data from MCPS showing the racial makeup of the middle school magnet classes for the upcoming school year?

No, only the kids that were invited/accepted: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

I imagine many parents have less of an incentive to bus their children across the county when now there's enriched classes at their home school.

One enriched humanities class vs 3 or 4 linked Magnet humanities classes. One enriched Math class vs 3 linked Magnet STEM classes. A cohort drawn from the best students in the county. Teachers with years of experience teaching this population. I would think carefully about giving up your child’s spot

2 magnet classes at your home school, vs. 3 magnet classes at a school that may be a long bus ride away.

-magnet parent

you are smugly happy that you think MCPS is going to snap its fingers after summer break and be able to have MS and HS teachers all over teach a magnet class for the first time in even a 50% similar way to how a long-standing magnet school program teacher does. but then again, you don't care, you're a magnet parent who lives in silver spring. Viola!

[Anonymous]

VIOLA!

https://geekdad.com/2015/03/word-nerd-viola/

[Anonymous]

so is s/he right or s/he right? viola! magic, s/he nailed it on the magnet parent.

[Anonymous]

I'm not the PP, but I actually am a magnet parent living in Silver Spring.

Despite our humble neighborhood, my magnet kid can tell you that a viola is a stringed instrument and voila is an interjection used to mean "I'm revealing something!"

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Anonymous wrote:Is there official data from MCPS showing the racial makeup of the middle school magnet classes for the upcoming school year?

No, only the kids that were invited/accepted: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

I imagine many parents have less of an incentive to bus their children across the county when now there's enriched classes at their home school.

One enriched humanities class vs 3 or 4 linked Magnet humanities classes. One enriched Math class vs 3 linked Magnet STEM classes. A cohort drawn from the best students in the county. Teachers with years of experience teaching this population. I would think carefully about giving up your child’s spot

2 magnet classes at your home school, vs. 3 magnet classes at a school that may be a long bus ride away.

-magnet parent

you are smugly happy that you think MCPS is going to snap its fingers after summer break and be able to have MS and HS teachers all over teach a magnet class for the first time in even a 50% similar way to how a long-standing magnet school program teacher does. but then again, you don't care, you're a magnet parent who lives in silver spring. Viola!

NP: well they have to start somewhere. Your post is insulting to teachers. As a professor, I often have to teach new classes and like most teachers, you meet the challenge. Why are you so upset about this? Do you have a rising 6th-grade student?

[Anonymous]

yes came from HGC into Pyle and it's been rough. we'll see if 7th grade is better, or if there is any homework finally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not the PP, but I actually am a magnet parent living in Silver Spring.

Despite our humble neighborhood, my magnet kid can tell you that a viola is a stringed instrument and voila is an interjection used to mean "I'm revealing something!"

yes alto clef instrument i happen to play.

tell it to apple autocorrect to fix its romance languages.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

2 magnet classes at your home school, vs. 3 magnet classes at a school that may be a long bus ride away.

-magnet parent

you are smugly happy that you think MCPS is going to snap its fingers after summer break and be able to have MS and HS teachers all over teach a magnet class for the first time in even a 50% similar way to how a long-standing magnet school program teacher does. but then again, you don't care, you're a magnet parent who lives in silver spring. Viola!

No, I'm a magnet parent who lives in the upcounty, although it's true that my kid plays viola.