DEI order and mcps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should get rid of the magnets completely and stop pulling the smart kids out of their local schools, especially for elem age.

Disagree. Differentiation would be better for everyone, particularly teachers. Teachers have too many levels to teach now and it benefits no one.

Why do they need to send kids to a different school to do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And isn’t MCPS already cash strapped and crying about the budget? I hope they don’t put more funds at risk.

Yes. I’m tired of MCPS and MD continuing to tax us to death, even with the fed money. And they think they can afford throw back that fed money out of pride? We need every penny, especially now during inflation and not knowing what crazy sh$t will happen each day. Just swallow your pride and go along with the fed, we need the money. And stop taxing us to death!! You can always revert back with the next administration.

[Anonymous]

My guess is they won't. I wish we could take a DCUM poll/take bets

[Anonymous]

What?!? Trying to decide what is worse. Continual parroting of "my 99th percentile kid" here (I can't even do the emo labor to deconstruct this now) or this bizarre & horrific news. It's all admixed i guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is excellent. MCPS should get rid of its DEI programs. Removing the lottery for magnet programs would be a wonderful start.

I want the bolded, certainly. IQ and cognitive test scores form a bell curve, there's a lot of variability in the lower and upper 1%. They really should give those seats to the top scorers, because these kids are often miserable in regular classes. The test cannot be "practiced" like knowledge test such as the SAT, it's a cognitive function test, which is very different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should get rid of the magnets completely and stop pulling the smart kids out of their local schools, especially for elem age.

Disagree. Differentiation would be better for everyone, particularly teachers. Teachers have too many levels to teach now and it benefits no one.

Maybe what’s best is no CES, but to fight for differentiated instruction within the school. And I’m not talking about within the classroom, but that kids move classrooms based on their level. This benefits students and teachers and reduces costs to the county by eliminating extra bussing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should get rid of the magnets completely and stop pulling the smart kids out of their local schools, especially for elem age.

Disagree. Differentiation would be better for everyone, particularly teachers. Teachers have too many levels to teach now and it benefits no one.

Why do they need to send kids to a different school to do that?

We need to support differentiation in all forms and stop rationing education.

There should be flexible ability grouping (not tracking) at local schools, in all grades, including elementary.

We should still have magnet programs where the top students (rather through brilliant intelligence/high IQ or motivation/hard work) can challenge themselves as much as they wish. We should add seats to the magnet program to accommodate more students.

We have a great working system in high schools where there are great magnet programs (that also need more seats), but each high school also offers AP/IB classes, honors classes, grade-level classes, and remedial classes. It isn’t a choice of either/or, students should have the option to pursue as much education as they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is excellent. MCPS should get rid of its DEI programs. Removing the lottery for magnet programs would be a wonderful start.

This. What a joke. The magnet programs were created to fill a NEED. Robbing the students who need those programs is outrageous!!

What NEED are you talking about?

Racial and income segregation. Duh.

[Anonymous]

The use of these tests to determine anything should be outlawed. I've seen how the sausage is made with them. Someday they'll be gone.

If you have the critical capacity, read The Mismeasure of Man by S J Gould. It's written for a lay audience and highly accessible.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know about what time period these magnets started?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should get rid of the magnets completely and stop pulling the smart kids out of their local schools, especially for elem age.

Disagree. Differentiation would be better for everyone, particularly teachers. Teachers have too many levels to teach now and it benefits no one.

Why do they need to send kids to a different school to do that?

We need to support differentiation in all forms and stop rationing education.

There should be flexible ability grouping (not tracking) at local schools, in all grades, including elementary.

We should still have magnet programs where the top students (rather through brilliant intelligence/high IQ or motivation/hard work) can challenge themselves as much as they wish. We should add seats to the magnet program to accommodate more students.

We have a great working system in high schools where there are great magnet programs (that also need more seats), but each high school also offers AP/IB classes, honors classes, grade-level classes, and remedial classes. It isn’t a choice of either/or, students should have the option to pursue as much education as they want.

This. Minus the magnet mishegas.

[Anonymous]

It would be better and more efficient to just do away with magnet programs entirely. There's no real need for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know about what time period these magnets started?

You can read all about the history here:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/info/choice/choicestudyreport-version2-20160307.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be better and more efficient to just do away with magnet programs entirely. There's no real need for them.

Agree! Why is magnet program associated with DEI?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only DCUM would be mad that MCPS has to follow the law.

When the law is just to punish blue states, yes.

FWIW, I think they should have programs that are purely income based, not skin color based.

It’s not about skin color in McPS for students. It’s about what the native language is. All the resources are for EML it seems.