Are MC magnet programs worthwhile

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Anonymous wrote:There will always be kids like PP's and those who get near-perfect SAT scores without prep and stress. I have an older sibling like that with a brain for taking tests. IQ, achievement, you name it. If it's an intelligence or achievement test it comes back 99th percentile. My sibling did not prep for the SAT yet scores were high enough for HPY. Sibling was also very relaxed about school. Things were very easy.

Such kids exist so stop jumping on PP.

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My kid is one of those. Perfect SAT scores, 10 scores of five on APs, straight As in an MCPS magnet.

No wringer, no prepping, and I take zero credit. This is how this kid came into the world.

Please, would you share your kid's MAP-M score(s) in MS?

10 APs with score of 5 + perfect SAT/ACT, that’s not impressive. Every other kid in magnet has that. What’s so special??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will always be kids like PP's and those who get near-perfect SAT scores without prep and stress. I have an older sibling like that with a brain for taking tests. IQ, achievement, you name it. If it's an intelligence or achievement test it comes back 99th percentile. My sibling did not prep for the SAT yet scores were high enough for HPY. Sibling was also very relaxed about school. Things were very easy.

Such kids exist so stop jumping on PP.

+1

My kid is one of those. Perfect SAT scores, 10 scores of five on APs, straight As in an MCPS magnet.

No wringer, no prepping, and I take zero credit. This is how this kid came into the world.

Please, would you share your kid's MAP-M score(s) in MS?

10 APs with score of 5 + perfect SAT/ACT, that’s not impressive. Every other kid in magnet has that. What’s so special??

NP here, come on --- we are talking about magnet worthwhile, not a contest for being special. This parent is proud of his/her DC's performance at magnet -- that is impressive to most parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will always be kids like PP's and those who get near-perfect SAT scores without prep and stress. I have an older sibling like that with a brain for taking tests. IQ, achievement, you name it. If it's an intelligence or achievement test it comes back 99th percentile. My sibling did not prep for the SAT yet scores were high enough for HPY. Sibling was also very relaxed about school. Things were very easy.

Such kids exist so stop jumping on PP.

+1

My kid is one of those. Perfect SAT scores, 10 scores of five on APs, straight As in an MCPS magnet.

No wringer, no prepping, and I take zero credit. This is how this kid came into the world.

Please, would you share your kid's MAP-M score(s) in MS?

With all the different HS scores...MS scores are quickly forgotten,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will always be kids like PP's and those who get near-perfect SAT scores without prep and stress. I have an older sibling like that with a brain for taking tests. IQ, achievement, you name it. If it's an intelligence or achievement test it comes back 99th percentile. My sibling did not prep for the SAT yet scores were high enough for HPY. Sibling was also very relaxed about school. Things were very easy.

Such kids exist so stop jumping on PP.

+1

My kid is one of those. Perfect SAT scores, 10 scores of five on APs, straight As in an MCPS magnet.

No wringer, no prepping, and I take zero credit. This is how this kid came into the world.

Please, would you share your kid's MAP-M score(s) in MS?

With all the different HS scores...MS scores are quickly forgotten,

Quite convenient but with all due respect it does not seem consistent with a parent that is not only very proud about its kid's achievements but also willing to share this here.
Nine (9) scores in MS. Don't you remember the decade (270s, 280s)?

[Anonymous]

At TPMS, most magnets score over 280 on MAP-M and some over 300 --according to DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There will always be kids like PP's and those who get near-perfect SAT scores without prep and stress. I have an older sibling like that with a brain for taking tests. IQ, achievement, you name it. If it's an intelligence or achievement test it comes back 99th percentile. My sibling did not prep for the SAT yet scores were high enough for HPY. Sibling was also very relaxed about school. Things were very easy.

Such kids exist so stop jumping on PP.

+1

My kid is one of those. Perfect SAT scores, 10 scores of five on APs, straight As in an MCPS magnet.

No wringer, no prepping, and I take zero credit. This is how this kid came into the world.

Well, unless you adopted, you deserve some credit.

If that’s so, then I deserve blame for my other kid’s struggles.

Sure, we have provided a print-rich, stable home environment for our kids, trips to museums, time outdoors, etc. we gave them the tools for learning. But their achievements, successes, and their struggles and failures as well are theirs and theirs alone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will always be kids like PP's and those who get near-perfect SAT scores without prep and stress. I have an older sibling like that with a brain for taking tests. IQ, achievement, you name it. If it's an intelligence or achievement test it comes back 99th percentile. My sibling did not prep for the SAT yet scores were high enough for HPY. Sibling was also very relaxed about school. Things were very easy.

Such kids exist so stop jumping on PP.

+1

My kid is one of those. Perfect SAT scores, 10 scores of five on APs, straight As in an MCPS magnet.

No wringer, no prepping, and I take zero credit. This is how this kid came into the world.

Please, would you share your kid's MAP-M score(s) in MS?

PP here. I have no memory of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will always be kids like PP's and those who get near-perfect SAT scores without prep and stress. I have an older sibling like that with a brain for taking tests. IQ, achievement, you name it. If it's an intelligence or achievement test it comes back 99th percentile. My sibling did not prep for the SAT yet scores were high enough for HPY. Sibling was also very relaxed about school. Things were very easy.

Such kids exist so stop jumping on PP.

+1

My kid is one of those. Perfect SAT scores, 10 scores of five on APs, straight As in an MCPS magnet.

No wringer, no prepping, and I take zero credit. This is how this kid came into the world.

Please, would you share your kid's MAP-M score(s) in MS?

10 APs with score of 5 + perfect SAT/ACT, that’s not impressive. Every other kid in magnet has that. What’s so special??

Actually, fewer than 20 magnet seniors graduated with a weighted GPA over 4.75. My kid was one of them. That is impressive by any measure, given that the magnet accepts only 100 students each year to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have seen only one genius level kid in MCPS. Only 1. In my many, many, many years of MCPS magnet world.

What do you mean by genius?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen only one genius level kid in MCPS. Only 1. In my many, many, many years of MCPS magnet world.

What do you mean by genius?

And what does “in my many, many years of MCPS magnet world” mean?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen only one genius level kid in MCPS. Only 1. In my many, many, many years of MCPS magnet world.

What do you mean by genius?

And what does “in my many, many years of MCPS magnet world” mean?

I think it means your child is NOT as smart as you think. Dumba$$.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen only one genius level kid in MCPS. Only 1. In my many, many, many years of MCPS magnet world.

What do you mean by genius?

And what does “in my many, many years of MCPS magnet world” mean?

I think it means your child is NOT as smart as you think. Dumba$$.

Bingo!

Doing well academically is possible. Doing exceptionally well in many different kinds of intellectual pursuits in different areas and industries...that is amazing, Till date I have seen only one kid who was a genius. However, magnet is not about a genius kid, It is for kids who are GT and need this kind of academic acceleration and enrichment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our kid is in the math/sci program and went through zero wringers. If you put your kids through a wringer, that's on you.

I am surprised by your confidence. "Zero wringers?" I wonder what your child would say, if you asked them how they felt during the process, or if they would actually tell you. Did your child somehow not have to participate, didn't have to test, didn't have to write an essay, didn't have to ask teachers for recommendations, didn't care how things turned out? The stress is there without the parent placing it there. I hope your parenting prowess is as great as you believe it to be, but I doubt it. Congrats that things worked out so well for your child, but if they hadn't worked out, would she we be all goo with it? "Zero wringers"....Really???

+many. Yeah that response made me roll my eyes. Somehow reminds me of parents posting “my kid got a 26 on ACT!! NO PREP!”

Yeah, so my kid enjoyed CES, did no external prep... nailed the cogat and was accepted to both programs. I do talk to my child and there were no expectations set... in fact, we talked about how there were only few seats available and that no matter what, middle school was going to be awesome, regardless. The only prep we did was to make sure kid had a good night sleep and a big breakfast. Is that putting a kid through a wringer? I don't think so. Keep rolling your eyes though. It will be your kid in therapy, not mine.

Dying to know why PP’s kid will be in therapy, oh wise one. Enlighten us!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The lackluster U.S. News & World Report rankings of MD public high schools and the omission of any mention of its magnets, makes me question whether it is worth the trouble to put your kid through the wringer to get into these programs I also wonder whether trying to position your child to compete for limited slots in a magnet program is a way of distracting parents from the broader problem, a lack of availability of advanced classes. Rather than challenge the school's niggardly distribution of advanced courses, we instead spend all of our time and energy posturing our kids to be the ones who have access. Whether Johnny has the right extra curriculars or the right relationships with teachers has nothing to do with assessing his ability to excel in particular advanced courses offered through these programs. If the kid can do the work he should have access to the course. But instead of attacking the school's course offerings, we are mired in the process of making our children the most desirable candidate he can be; so that, its someone else's kid who gets left behind. And at the end of the day do we even have a measure of whether this process helps our kids get into better colleges or to excel wherever they end up going.

I don't know if my perspective distorted or not. So, I am interested in hearing your views.

Complete waste. Don’t bother sending your kid. Spread the word that it’s better to stay in your home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will always be kids like PP's and those who get near-perfect SAT scores without prep and stress. I have an older sibling like that with a brain for taking tests. IQ, achievement, you name it. If it's an intelligence or achievement test it comes back 99th percentile. My sibling did not prep for the SAT yet scores were high enough for HPY. Sibling was also very relaxed about school. Things were very easy.

Such kids exist so stop jumping on PP.

+1

My kid is one of those. Perfect SAT scores, 10 scores of five on APs, straight As in an MCPS magnet.

No wringer, no prepping, and I take zero credit. This is how this kid came into the world.

Please, would you share your kid's MAP-M score(s) in MS?

10 APs with score of 5 + perfect SAT/ACT, that’s not impressive. Every other kid in magnet has that. What’s so special??

Actually, fewer than 20 magnet seniors graduated with a weighted GPA over 4.75. My kid was one of them. That is impressive by any measure, given that the magnet accepts only 100 students each year to begin with.

My senior currently has a 4.8 in the magnet. She is not a genius. She is not even a strong magnet student. She does do well in school.