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Anonymous
Never change, DCUM! |
Anonymous
Your kids are white, the accused kids are Asian and of course your kids don't attend. You actually don't know yet you're on an anonymous board spreading lies to further your own agenda of stereotyping "certain" kids. RSM didn't exist until recently. Those classes in certain parts of the county are very white immigrant. |
Anonymous
All I know is one particular Potomac ES has a bus that picks up enough kids every day to justify itself for Dr. Li's prep. That isn't going on elsewhere. |
Anonymous
What are you talking about? Read the thread. |
Anonymous
That same school is the only that offers a full class of AIM in ES. Many kids get an entire year of acceleration whereas elsewhere in the county those options aren't avilable. |
Anonymous
| You need a teacher (or parent) who starts this sort of thing, and leads them. Roberto Clemente is a math magnet. They didn't even have a team! What's up with that? And most of the schools are down county which makes me think it's just not something encouraged in the Upcounty schools. |
Anonymous
Um, maybe show us your math? The math that would give a student from Kensington the same chance of getting a math magnet seat as a kid from TP? Shouting "in addition!" is a total red herring. The program has a capacity of 125, right? The program is the scarce and desired commodity. The program is an MCPS program. They don't sequester the 25 from inbounds from the rest for instruction during the three years they are there. They do sequester the inbounds lottery pool from the rest, though, reserving those 25 seats for them. Which might be fine to ensure representation in the program from within the community...if there were about a quarter the number of inbounds students as there were eligible for the out of bounds pool from which they lottery the other 100. But that isn't the case. There are far fewer students inbounds to TPMS than a quarter of the out of bounds population in the southern magnet catchment. If hoping to get in, it's better to have 25 spots for a population of something like 500 than 100 spots for a population of something like 7500. And yeah, if they did away with the 25-seat inbounds reserve, they wouldn't be reducing the program by 25. It would still be 125 -- the class sizes/schedules & teacher allocations work that way. It would just be 125 drawing from an identified population within the 8000 total. Again, a set-aside to ensure some come from the home catchment should be fine, as long as the number of seats reserved don't confer a significantly increased likelihood of getting a seat vs. the rest of the catchments served by the program. This is the same problem as MCPS creates with local CES programs like Stonegate. MCPS is supposed to be serving Montgomery County students. All of them. Reasonably equally. Not especially Potomac students. Not especially Olney students. Not especially Clarksburg students. And not especially Takoma Park students. |
Anonymous
Mathcounts was founded in 1983. https://www.mathcounts.org/about/our-story |
Anonymous
I’m not the person you are replying to and admittedly I did skim some of your reply as it’s so long, but it seems you have a fundamental misunderstanding. If the 25 kid set aside for the magnet for local kids no longer existed the program would be 100 kids and those 25 would be at Takoma Park middle but not in the magnet. The 100 places are determined by the capacity to as additional out of boundary kids. There is room for 100 out of boundary kids and no more. Removing the 25 local kids will not open up any more places for Jimmy from Gaithersburg or Larla from Rockville. |
Anonymous
| Where can my kid join math counts? There is no math club or math competition at our elementary school. |
Anonymous
I disagree. The seat limit and set aside was set long before the expansion project at TPMS, which increased its capacity, and magnets are not all set at 100 out-of-bounds seats in the first place. With the program working well (within itself/related to classroom & teacher logistics, not in terms of being able to serve all who might benefit) at 125, there's no reason to drop seats if fewer are assigned in-bounds. And even if that were the case, why shouldn't the magnet education opportunity for those in the TPMS inbounds set-aside be the same in relation to the feeder population as it is for those out of bounds? Why 25 instead of, say, a more properly proportional 10 or 8? |
Anonymous
Of those 25 local kids I know of 8 this year that were invited to SMCS. Some may not go but my guess is if they eliminate the set aside there will be even fewer seats for the rest of the county since those local kids will end up landing a couple of them leaving fewer for everyone else. |
Anonymous
There's no benefit to eliminating the set-aside. Nobody other than a few jealous parents are discussing this. |
Anonymous
| Strange how none of you who are suggesting that the sky would fall if the set aside were eliminated or modified has any explanation as to why it is OK in an equity-obsessed school system to have inequitable relative opportunity to get magnet-level enriched education. Is equity a good thing only when getting there doesn't negatively impact your neighborhood? |
Anonymous
Look you can argue as much as you want about what you would like the case to be. The fact is that out of bounds places are capped at 100. The school is already enormous. You are not going to get much support to increase the size. |