Thanks - but my point wasn't to call into question the wisdom of lowering the admission standards for students from high FARMS schools. It was about, in reality - in practice, how has that changed the program., if at all Wanted to see if anyone had real experience with CES after these changes to the cohort were implemented rather than the "might be" and "shouldn't assume" stuff you mentioned about the reasoning behind the change. |
You seem to fall over yourself to defend MCPS's lack of openness by suggesting, in the same breath, that the 2 year old data is recent enough to apply to last year (it isn't) and that medians give a clear picture of distribution (they don't). Whatever you might think about MoCo students being "special" or not, stop shilling for MCPS's continuing failure in this regard. |
They seem plenty open to me. I mean, the data they just released last year seems current, and they do publish stats to ParentVue. It seems like nothing short of having access to MCPS' systems would satisfy you. Others have also pointed out that this data just doesn't vary much year over year. |
Where did they release this data you’re both referring to? Is that the data that the gifted and talented group has on its closed Facebook group that it got through a FOIA type request? |
Wow. Absolutely shocking that you simply repeat the discredited statements. Politic much? MCPS provided the cutoffs with respect to 5th grade Fall 2021 MAP. They did so only after an MPIA request (and well after any appeal period wherein a more cogent appeal might have been made by families if such data was available), rather than making them (and similar data) public out of a sense of responsibility to the community they serve. They did not provide an update last year, despite the cutoffs clearly having become different. They probably will not provide an update this year. Medians provided on ParentVUE, whether they vary slightly or more than slightly, are essentially meaningless to this discussion. One doesn't need access to MCPS systems or have any individual-student data compromised to provide the information. (Strawman, much?) But you know all of this, already. Stop shilling for MCPS. Time for Jeff to lock this up, hopefully without a no-new-info, reiterate-the-discredited-claim rejoinder by you. |
MPIA responses provided during FY22, referencing MS Magnet criteria drawing from fall 2021 5th-grade MAP scores: https://drive.google.com/file/d/120BRtShXf9_kQcNvKSxHKG4nJhnyTjL7/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e0Szg2jJ8F1rL2BZSqCV1fb_R1gLw |
Last URL got cut off. Corrected, above. |
Previously posted and exhaustively discussed in the thread "Middle school magnet lottery cutoffs finally revealed":
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1077029.page |
Thanks! |