Takoma, Easter Magnets. MCPS Pilots Universal Evaluation Process.

[Anonymous]

I'm fine with this eventually leading to a path where schools like Sligo and SSIMS have lots more magnet type classes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

In the magnet program with three or four interrelated courses and a cohort drawn from 16 high school clusters, the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" .

If nothing will satisfy you but the magnet program, then nothing will satisfy you but the magnet program. Magnet program or bust, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Doubt it. Busing your kid all the way across the county is a serious commitment. I can't even imagine getting my middle schooler to a bus stop around 6:15 am. Most parents further out won't even consider it. I don't think the parents and kids who want and deserve to be in the magnet are consoled with the token "enriched" class.

At least those kids have a large enough peer group for an enriched class. Do you think the students who are the one or two outliers at their school should be consoled with nothing?

This valid rhetorical question does not concern W-feeder school parents. Hence, that is why it will not be addressed on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Doubt it. Busing your kid all the way across the county is a serious commitment. I can't even imagine getting my middle schooler to a bus stop around 6:15 am. Most parents further out won't even consider it. I don't think the parents and kids who want and deserve to be in the magnet are consoled with the token "enriched" class.

At least those kids have a large enough peer group for an enriched class. Do you think the students who are the one or two outliers at their school should be consoled with nothing?

This valid rhetorical question does not concern W-feeder school parents. Hence, that is why it will not be addressed on DCUM.

There are 3 W middle school clusters and 2 DCC middle school clusters in the top five performers.

[Anonymous]

yeah so, what do those schools have to do with us closing the achievement gap for the first time in world history?