mcps. sounds about right. (GT admissions changes)

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with universal screening, but using the cohort criteria really does exclude the brighter kids.

But don’t they get the advanced classes at their home school? I thought they send the kids who are advanced but there’s not enough (20?) other advanced kids at their school, and where there are enough kids to form a class they keep them at their home school? I’d prefer my kid be at the home school, unless the magnet is close.

No. If it was the exact same curriculum, then yes, but it's not the same curriculum, so no.. those one or two classes does not make a magnet program.

It does give them a peer group.

Yes, it is only part of the curriculum. My child's teachers did note that the magnet classes are the exact same math and social studies classes at the magnets.

I hope it's not lost on readers that these parents who go on about how great their schools are because of the peer group are the same that cry to high heaven when their precious didn't make it into the magnet and they're stuck with their local school's peer group.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with universal screening, but using the cohort criteria really does exclude the brighter kids.

But don’t they get the advanced classes at their home school? I thought they send the kids who are advanced but there’s not enough (20?) other advanced kids at their school, and where there are enough kids to form a class they keep them at their home school? I’d prefer my kid be at the home school, unless the magnet is close.

No. If it was the exact same curriculum, then yes, but it's not the same curriculum, so no.. those one or two classes does not make a magnet program.

It does give them a peer group.

Yes, it is only part of the curriculum. My child's teachers did note that the magnet classes are the exact same math and social studies classes at the magnets.

I hope it's not lost on readers that these parents who go on about how great their schools are because of the peer group are the same that cry to high heaven when their precious didn't make it into the magnet and they're stuck with their local school's peer group.

And some of us have kids who turned down MS magnet offer(s). So the peer group classes look like a nice addition.

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And some of us have kids who turned down MS magnet offer(s). So the peer group classes look like a nice addition.

Ahhh...the myth of getting into the magnet program and turning it down. LOL

What did they get into? The lottery programs?

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And some of us have kids who turned down MS magnet offer(s). So the peer group classes look like a nice addition.

Ahhh...the myth of getting into the magnet program and turning it down. LOL

What did they get into? The lottery programs?

It's obviously not a myth. People do turn down the magnet programs. Not every parent wants their kid spending a large part of their day being bused around the county so they buy in a school they feel comfortable in, magnet or no magnet.

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And some of us have kids who turned down MS magnet offer(s). So the peer group classes look like a nice addition.

Ahhh...the myth of getting into the magnet program and turning it down. LOL

What did they get into? The lottery programs?

I know a family that turned down Eastern.

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And some of us have kids who turned down MS magnet offer(s). So the peer group classes look like a nice addition.

Ahhh...the myth of getting into the magnet program and turning it down. LOL

What did they get into? The lottery programs?

It's obviously not a myth. People do turn down the magnet programs. Not every parent wants their kid spending a large part of their day being bused around the county so they buy in a school they feel comfortable in, magnet or no magnet.

+1. It is a big county. 22:52 needs to get out and about a bit more.

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We turned down tpms for this year. Wasn’t worth the bus ride and are happy with our home school. Also declined the HCG for the same child, with no regrets.

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There are no "peer group" classes. The home school spreads them out just as they've always been spread out. Each class gets a few high performers, a few low performers, and the rest in the middle.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no "peer group" classes. The home school spreads them out just as they've always been spread out. Each class gets a few high performers, a few low performers, and the rest in the middle.

My kid is in the pilot local MS magnet classes for math and humanities and for those classes it is only peers. Because of scheduling he does have many of the same kids in Advanced English and Science.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no "peer group" classes. The home school spreads them out just as they've always been spread out. Each class gets a few high performers, a few low performers, and the rest in the middle.

My kid is in the pilot local MS magnet classes for math and humanities and for those classes it is only peers. Because of scheduling he does have many of the same kids in Advanced English and Science.

Forgot to add foreign language class too.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no "peer group" classes. The home school spreads them out just as they've always been spread out. Each class gets a few high performers, a few low performers, and the rest in the middle.

My kid is in the pilot local MS magnet classes for math and humanities and for those classes it is only peers. Because of scheduling he does have many of the same kids in Advanced English and Science.

I should clarify... no peer group classes being made in elementary school. This was confirmed at back to school night.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no "peer group" classes. The home school spreads them out just as they've always been spread out. Each class gets a few high performers, a few low performers, and the rest in the middle.

My kid is in the pilot local MS magnet classes for math and humanities and for those classes it is only peers. Because of scheduling he does have many of the same kids in Advanced English and Science.

Same for our kid. The tendency towards grouping of peers in the other classes due to scheduling is similar to what happens at the MS magnets.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no "peer group" classes. The home school spreads them out just as they've always been spread out. Each class gets a few high performers, a few low performers, and the rest in the middle.

My kid is in the pilot local MS magnet classes for math and humanities and for those classes it is only peers. Because of scheduling he does have many of the same kids in Advanced English and Science.

I should clarify... no peer group classes being made in elementary school. This was confirmed at back to school night.

This is very true for ES. The high performers from high performing schools are not group together as "promised". At our school, the kids are sprinkled here and there in each class.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no "peer group" classes. The home school spreads them out just as they've always been spread out. Each class gets a few high performers, a few low performers, and the rest in the middle.

My kid is in the pilot local MS magnet classes for math and humanities and for those classes it is only peers. Because of scheduling he does have many of the same kids in Advanced English and Science.

Same for our kid. The tendency towards grouping of peers in the other classes due to scheduling is similar to what happens at the MS magnets.

That’s wonderful. Does anyone know the reading list for the humanities class?

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How do they take socioeconomic status into account? What does MCPS know of socioeconomic status besides FARMs or not?