Magnet MS results - Takoma Park & Eastern - anyone heard today?

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Anonymous wrote:Ok starting to hear some acceptances. All from lower performing middle schools and not kids with straight 99s.

?? Not sure if you intended this as tongue in cheek, but I'm the PP who posted a little while ago that child was accepted to both with 99 reading and 99 math, and home school is Westland, which is hardly low-performing, LOL.

PP, just to get some data, do you think your kid is the one or two top scoring kid on various tests at Westland, or do you have some other theory on why you think your kid got in over others at Westland? Would appreciate any insights/guesses you care to offer.

Congrats to your kid. It's nice to have choices, and I hope we're in that position again some day too!

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My kid did not have an essay question about why they'd like to go to a magnet school.

I think I already had this confirmed on a different thread - that not ALL the ES kids tested had the essay element.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok starting to hear some acceptances. All from lower performing middle schools and not kids with straight 99s.

?? Not sure if you intended this as tongue in cheek, but I'm the PP who posted a little while ago that child was accepted to both with 99 reading and 99 math, and home school is Westland, which is hardly low-performing, LOL.

So it looks to me that answering the survey questions probably is the key to differentiate the result? You are honestly the first acceptance I’ve heard so far that is Asian and in W clusters. Congratulations to your DC. Is he/she currently in the home ES or in a HGC?

PP here--Home ES, and we're not Asian so confused as to why that assumption was made...

Sorry, mixed you up with another pp who is Asian and got acceptance. So still no exceptions (I hate to say but race+geography is the sin it seem like...

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Did anyone get rejections today? Or only acceptances?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid did not have an essay question about why they'd like to go to a magnet school.

I think I already had this confirmed on a different thread - that not ALL the ES kids tested had the essay element.

I am the poster about the non scoring section with questions, it is interesting that you confirm that not all students had that section, because the acceptance letter we got clearly says that the non scoring section was accounted for while making the selection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone get rejections today? Or only acceptances?

We are in Rockville, and the friends' 5th grader hasn't heard anything, one way or the other.

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We’re still waiting to here, in Silver Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re still waiting to here, in Silver Spring.

Where in Silver spring? What MS are you zoned for?

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DD's friend got into Takoma but is turning it down, she is Hispanic but zoned for a good MS. She always seems to be a Kumon so I don't know why she's not going.

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Is anyone going to appeal?

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Anonymous wrote:We’re still waiting to here, in Silver Spring.

Where in Silver spring? What MS are you zoned for?

Zoned for Sligo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Cold Spring results are very interesting. Clearly it would be difficult to accept all 55 applicants into ms magnet. Some criteria must be established to decide. My understanding is that Cold Spring has many high performing kids. Hopefully, a strong peer group supported by strong teachers can provide a similarly enriching experience for all.

If true. About which I am doubtful. Were the fifth-graders running around at recess systematically checking off names on the Valentine's class name list?

They were all talking about it at the beginning of the day and, with all the rejections, started saying "no one got in, no one got in!" Apparently the teacher corrected them and said, well, two kids got in (the two probably hadn't gotten their letters yet and weren't saying anything). She was quite upset that the bulk of them wouldn't have access to a magnet-level curriculum, said MCPS no longer used test scores as the primary discriminator. My DC said gravely "she hates MCPS," and added she refers to the 2.0 curriculum as "-2.0." Ha.

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So if test scores aren't the criteria then what is?

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Anonymous wrote:So if test scores aren't the criteria then what is?

Availability of peer cohort at home school, bright kids at underperforming schools, URMs. Closing the achievement gap.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Cold Spring results are very interesting. Clearly it would be difficult to accept all 55 applicants into ms magnet. Some criteria must be established to decide. My understanding is that Cold Spring has many high performing kids. Hopefully, a strong peer group supported by strong teachers can provide a similarly enriching experience for all.

If true. About which I am doubtful. Were the fifth-graders running around at recess systematically checking off names on the Valentine's class name list?

They were all talking about it at the beginning of the day and, with all the rejections, started saying "no one got in, no one got in!" Apparently the teacher corrected them and said, well, two kids got in (the two probably hadn't gotten their letters yet and weren't saying anything). She was quite upset that the bulk of them wouldn't have access to a magnet-level curriculum, said MCPS no longer used test scores as the primary discriminator. My DC said gravely "she hates MCPS," and added she refers to the 2.0 curriculum as "-2.0." Ha.

I find it hard to believe any teacher would talk to their students this candidly. Either this is BS on somebody's part, or that teacher doesn't plan on coming back next year.