Just how big are magnet middle school programs at Eastern and TPMS?

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Anonymous wrote:In a nutshell, the perfect fit is a kid who has 52 ideas how to do a project half way into reading the description .

Pretty accurate. I’d add having these ideas, but also the discipline to actually follow through with one.

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Anonymous wrote:These magnets are so last year. We love the new enriched classes. Not sure why anyone would go to a magnet these days.

Because the caliber of the students. The enriched programs can’t offer that. Is your child getting media offered like at the magnet?
It’s not comparable. Whether a magnet is the right choice for your child/family is another debate, but this (bolded) is a silly conclusion.

Caliber is the same. The benefit is to students who would otherwise lack a cohort because they are the outlier at their home school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These magnets are so last year. We love the new enriched classes. Not sure why anyone would go to a magnet these days.

Because the caliber of the students. The enriched programs can’t offer that. Is your child getting media offered like at the magnet?
It’s not comparable. Whether a magnet is the right choice for your child/family is another debate, but this (bolded) is a silly conclusion.

Caliber is the same. The benefit is to students who would otherwise lack a cohort because they are the outlier at their home school.

Huh? Caliber is either the same, or you get a different cohort there that you do not have at the home school. It can't be both.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These magnets are so last year. We love the new enriched classes. Not sure why anyone would go to a magnet these days.

Because the caliber of the students. The enriched programs can’t offer that. Is your child getting media offered like at the magnet?
It’s not comparable. Whether a magnet is the right choice for your child/family is another debate, but this (bolded) is a silly conclusion.

Caliber is the same. The benefit is to students who would otherwise lack a cohort because they are the outlier at their home school.

Not really. My child is zoned to a middle school that feeds to a W (i.e. plenty of high scores there). She goes to Eastern. They took the really, really high outliers, so the caliber is not the same. Her experience at Eastern is not the same she'd have at her local middle school based on what we've seen from the good students in her 5th grade class to the students in the magnet 6th grade. YMMV.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These magnets are so last year. We love the new enriched classes. Not sure why anyone would go to a magnet these days.

Because the caliber of the students. The enriched programs can’t offer that. Is your child getting media offered like at the magnet?
It’s not comparable. Whether a magnet is the right choice for your child/family is another debate, but this (bolded) is a silly conclusion.

Caliber is the same. The benefit is to students who would otherwise lack a cohort because they are the outlier at their home school.

Not really. My child is zoned to a middle school that feeds to a W (i.e. plenty of high scores there). She goes to Eastern. They took the really, really high outliers, so the caliber is not the same. Her experience at Eastern is not the same she'd have at her local middle school based on what we've seen from the good students in her 5th grade class to the students in the magnet 6th grade. YMMV.

^^^This seems consistent with giving a smaller slice of the pie to the W schools based on the cohort rationale (which I wholeheartedly support). Have you noticed if the caliber is equally high from non-W students at Eastern magnet? We are in a W-school but not sure if DD's high MAPs are high enough to pass the cohort threshold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These magnets are so last year. We love the new enriched classes. Not sure why anyone would go to a magnet these days.

Because the caliber of the students. The enriched programs can’t offer that. Is your child getting media offered like at the magnet?
It’s not comparable. Whether a magnet is the right choice for your child/family is another debate, but this (bolded) is a silly conclusion.

Caliber is the same. The benefit is to students who would otherwise lack a cohort because they are the outlier at their home school.

Not really. My child is zoned to a middle school that feeds to a W (i.e. plenty of high scores there). She goes to Eastern. They took the really, really high outliers, so the caliber is not the same. Her experience at Eastern is not the same she'd have at her local middle school based on what we've seen from the good students in her 5th grade class to the students in the magnet 6th grade. YMMV.

^^^This seems consistent with giving a smaller slice of the pie to the W schools based on the cohort rationale (which I wholeheartedly support). Have you noticed if the caliber is equally high from non-W students at Eastern magnet? We are in a W-school but not sure if DD's high MAPs are high enough to pass the cohort threshold.

I understand the MAPs don't have any valid statistical meaning once you hit 99th percentile. So they go to the COGAT and at the CES leverl they adjust your DCs scores down if you are in a low FARMS school, up if you are in a higher FARMS school. A 97% raw COGAT score in a W feeder became 80% last year. That rendered over the moon MAPs meaningless in this process. Not sure if they are "adjusting" COGAT scores in the same fashion for TPMS/Eastern magnet process.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These magnets are so last year. We love the new enriched classes. Not sure why anyone would go to a magnet these days.

Because the caliber of the students. The enriched programs can’t offer that. Is your child getting media offered like at the magnet?
It’s not comparable. Whether a magnet is the right choice for your child/family is another debate, but this (bolded) is a silly conclusion.

Caliber is the same. The benefit is to students who would otherwise lack a cohort because they are the outlier at their home school.

Not really. My child is zoned to a middle school that feeds to a W (i.e. plenty of high scores there). She goes to Eastern. They took the really, really high outliers, so the caliber is not the same. Her experience at Eastern is not the same she'd have at her local middle school based on what we've seen from the good students in her 5th grade class to the students in the magnet 6th grade. YMMV.

^^^This seems consistent with giving a smaller slice of the pie to the W schools based on the cohort rationale (which I wholeheartedly support). Have you noticed if the caliber is equally high from non-W students at Eastern magnet? We are in a W-school but not sure if DD's high MAPs are high enough to pass the cohort threshold.

I have no idea because, unlike elementary we are rarely inside the classroom and don't talk to the other parents because they live so far away.