Middle School/High School Math Question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FYI the kids going through all these complications to take AIM in 5th and Alg 2 in 9th all end up in the same math class at Blair and Poolesville with the other advanced students not afforded the same opportunity.

It seems unfair that advanced classes are only available to those who attend a few wealthy schools. It has nothing to do with merit since children with even higher scores at less well to do schools do not get these opportunities.

It's not a matter of "wealth, it's a matter of what certain principals allow and how much parents push. My point is that it does not end up mattering since all the really advanced kids end up in the same classes if they go to Blair or Poolesville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids start Algebra 1 in 6th, in which case they are bused to the high school in 8th grade for first period math, then return to their school for the rest, with the understanding that they'll need to fill in math classes with dual enrollment at the community college or take whatever optional math classes are available at their high school.

You're only eligible for that acceleration if you're at one of the W feeders.

What is W feeders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids start Algebra 1 in 6th, in which case they are bused to the high school in 8th grade for first period math, then return to their school for the rest, with the understanding that they'll need to fill in math classes with dual enrollment at the community college or take whatever optional math classes are available at their high school.

You're only eligible for that acceleration if you're at one of the W feeders.

What is W feeders?

Same parent posting misinformation all the time. Same thing.
Many many W schools actively discourage it. Your child could have extremely high outlier MAP scores and they would say no way.

There are a handful of schools all over the county (RM feeders, DCC feeders) that each might have 1 child accelerated. Some of those kids came from private. Some are really exceptional - and everyone keeps thinking their own kid is really exceptional but you are probably wrong because if your child were at this level the school would have allowed the skipping.

If your child is actually at TPMS you know the exceedingly few kids accelerated came from all over the county and your child would see this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids start Algebra 1 in 6th, in which case they are bused to the high school in 8th grade for first period math, then return to their school for the rest, with the understanding that they'll need to fill in math classes with dual enrollment at the community college or take whatever optional math classes are available at their high school.

You're only eligible for that acceleration if you're at one of the W feeders.

What is W feeders?

Same parent posting misinformation all the time. Same thing.
Many many W schools actively discourage it. Your child could have extremely high outlier MAP scores and they would say no way.

There are a handful of schools all over the county (RM feeders, DCC feeders) that each might have 1 child accelerated. Some of those kids came from private. Some are really exceptional - and everyone keeps thinking their own kid is really exceptional but you are probably wrong because if your child were at this level the school would have allowed the skipping.

If your child is actually at TPMS you know the exceedingly few kids accelerated came from all over the county and your child would see this.

You are responding to wrong thread. What is W feeders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids start Algebra 1 in 6th, in which case they are bused to the high school in 8th grade for first period math, then return to their school for the rest, with the understanding that they'll need to fill in math classes with dual enrollment at the community college or take whatever optional math classes are available at their high school.

You're only eligible for that acceleration if you're at one of the W feeders.

What is W feeders?

Same parent posting misinformation all the time. Same thing.
Many many W schools actively discourage it. Your child could have extremely high outlier MAP scores and they would say no way.

There are a handful of schools all over the county (RM feeders, DCC feeders) that each might have 1 child accelerated. Some of those kids came from private. Some are really exceptional - and everyone keeps thinking their own kid is really exceptional but you are probably wrong because if your child were at this level the school would have allowed the skipping.

If your child is actually at TPMS you know the exceedingly few kids accelerated came from all over the county and your child would see this.

You are responding to wrong thread. What is W feeders?

A "W" feeder is an ES or MS that goes to Whitman, Winston Churchill, Wootton (or WJ, but really it's Poolsville). Whitman, Churchill and Wootton all have 80%+ kids meeting System of Maryland Entrance Requirements, so Poolesville should be in that club as well. Maybe it should be called W3P?

WJ, BCC, QO, RM, Blair, Wheaton and a bunch of others are about 60-70'ish% in terms of meeting System of Maryland Entrance Requirements. Surprising Blair isn't higher since it has the DCC Magnet Program.

I think what the poster was trying to say is that the "W" schools have more kids likely to go to college so MCPS is encouraging them to "follow the pack" versus carving out exceptions. I disagree with that view since it destroys what makes the Magnet or other accelerated programs special, but that's a differnent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FYI the kids going through all these complications to take AIM in 5th and Alg 2 in 9th all end up in the same math class at Blair and Poolesville with the other advanced students not afforded the same opportunity.

It seems unfair that advanced classes are only available to those who attend a few wealthy schools. It has nothing to do with merit since children with even higher scores at less well to do schools do not get these opportunities.

It's not a matter of "wealth, it's a matter of what certain principals allow and how much parents push. My point is that it does not end up mattering since all the really advanced kids end up in the same classes if they go to Blair or Poolesville.

And it's always just the principals at the wealthy schools that happen to allow this. It's just a coincidence that these schools offer more enrichment...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids start Algebra 1 in 6th, in which case they are bused to the high school in 8th grade for first period math, then return to their school for the rest, with the understanding that they'll need to fill in math classes with dual enrollment at the community college or take whatever optional math classes are available at their high school.

You're only eligible for that acceleration if you're at one of the W feeders.

What is W feeders?

Same parent posting misinformation all the time. Same thing.
Many many W schools actively discourage it. Your child could have extremely high outlier MAP scores and they would say no way.

There are a handful of schools all over the county (RM feeders, DCC feeders) that each might have 1 child accelerated. Some of those kids came from private. Some are really exceptional - and everyone keeps thinking their own kid is really exceptional but you are probably wrong because if your child were at this level the school would have allowed the skipping.

If your child is actually at TPMS you know the exceedingly few kids accelerated came from all over the county and your child would see this.

My child does go to TPMS and it's just a few kids who came from W feeders that were able to take IM in 5th.

[Anonymous]

There are fewer than 100 current 6th graders in the county taking Algebra 1 this year out of over 10K 6th graders county-wide. All of them evidently have parents on dcum. Lol. Next year the process for taking Algebra 1 in 6th grade will be tightened further, so this special permission that was previously granted on a school by school basis will be handled by central office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are fewer than 100 current 6th graders in the county taking Algebra 1 this year out of over 10K 6th graders county-wide. All of them evidently have parents on dcum. Lol. Next year the process for taking Algebra 1 in 6th grade will be tightened further, so this special permission that was previously granted on a school by school basis will be handled by central office.

Will AEI handle it, or someone else in central?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids start Algebra 1 in 6th, in which case they are bused to the high school in 8th grade for first period math, then return to their school for the rest, with the understanding that they'll need to fill in math classes with dual enrollment at the community college or take whatever optional math classes are available at their high school.

You're only eligible for that acceleration if you're at one of the W feeders.

What is W feeders?

Same parent posting misinformation all the time. Same thing.
Many many W schools actively discourage it. Your child could have extremely high outlier MAP scores and they would say no way.

There are a handful of schools all over the county (RM feeders, DCC feeders) that each might have 1 child accelerated. Some of those kids came from private. Some are really exceptional - and everyone keeps thinking their own kid is really exceptional but you are probably wrong because if your child were at this level the school would have allowed the skipping.

If your child is actually at TPMS you know the exceedingly few kids accelerated came from all over the county and your child would see this.

You are responding to wrong thread. What is W feeders?

What are you even talking about? This is the thread about W feeders being the only place where people can get acceleration. That's a total lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids start Algebra 1 in 6th, in which case they are bused to the high school in 8th grade for first period math, then return to their school for the rest, with the understanding that they'll need to fill in math classes with dual enrollment at the community college or take whatever optional math classes are available at their high school.

You're only eligible for that acceleration if you're at one of the W feeders.

What is W feeders?

Same parent posting misinformation all the time. Same thing.
Many many W schools actively discourage it. Your child could have extremely high outlier MAP scores and they would say no way.

There are a handful of schools all over the county (RM feeders, DCC feeders) that each might have 1 child accelerated. Some of those kids came from private. Some are really exceptional - and everyone keeps thinking their own kid is really exceptional but you are probably wrong because if your child were at this level the school would have allowed the skipping.

If your child is actually at TPMS you know the exceedingly few kids accelerated came from all over the county and your child would see this.

My child does go to TPMS and it's just a few kids who came from W feeders that were able to take IM in 5th.

My child is at the TPMS magnet and it's is a mix of W feeders, DCC schools and Rockville schools in the upper two grades. Maybe your child is in 6th? I think the mix might be different there because of the lottery and there's a higher probability Frost kids would show up because there's just more of them accelerated. The probability of a random very smart kid who is accelerated from another school being picked by the lottery is really low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fewer than 100 current 6th graders in the county taking Algebra 1 this year out of over 10K 6th graders county-wide. All of them evidently have parents on dcum. Lol. Next year the process for taking Algebra 1 in 6th grade will be tightened further, so this special permission that was previously granted on a school by school basis will be handled by central office.

Will AEI handle it, or someone else in central?

This is just going back to how it was. AEI had to sign off on acceleration a few years back too.
The timeline went something like: Tons of kids accelerated. Almost no one accelerated with C2.0 (AEI needed to approve and they rarely did). Some loosening when Frost feeders began to allow it. Now tightening the process again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are fewer than 100 current 6th graders in the county taking Algebra 1 this year out of over 10K 6th graders county-wide. All of them evidently have parents on dcum. Lol. Next year the process for taking Algebra 1 in 6th grade will be tightened further, so this special permission that was previously granted on a school by school basis will be handled by central office.

Carl Seward, head of secondary math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fewer than 100 current 6th graders in the county taking Algebra 1 this year out of over 10K 6th graders county-wide. All of them evidently have parents on dcum. Lol. Next year the process for taking Algebra 1 in 6th grade will be tightened further, so this special permission that was previously granted on a school by school basis will be handled by central office.

Carl Seward, head of secondary math.

He's leaving MCPS and going back to Arlington:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids start Algebra 1 in 6th, in which case they are bused to the high school in 8th grade for first period math, then return to their school for the rest, with the understanding that they'll need to fill in math classes with dual enrollment at the community college or take whatever optional math classes are available at their high school.

You're only eligible for that acceleration if you're at one of the W feeders.

What is W feeders?

Most of the kids that take Algebra at TPMS come from Cold Spring because they get IM in 5th there.