Frost wins Science Bowl

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Anonymous wrote:This makes me dread DC going to Blair. Are all the parents like this?

I personally think they dismantle Blair and keep all the uber-smart kids in their home schools where they can still flourish.

Sure at Frost, there's clearly a sizable cohort of high-achievers, so the magnet doesn't matter, but at many schools, that's not the case. The magnets provide a strong cohort for many kids who don't happen to live in the bounds of such a school. Frost's success shows that the county's policy to focus on outliers is working since these kids are doing great at their home school.

Agree schools like Frost don't need the magnet. This also frees up more seats for others.

It's clear from Frost's victories with the Science Bowl that the county made a good choice by keeping this sufficiently large high-achieving cohort together rather than sending many to the magnet.

The selection changes seem to be working well. Maybe they can keep them together at Wootton too in order to free up more space @Blair.

I think that's a great idea.

No, that's a terrible idea. Blair magnet is nowhere near Takoma magnet in terms of difficulty (ask how I know.) Doing well at top colleges is really a piece of cake after Blair, if you take advantage of all the challenges Blair has to offer. And I'm grateful to Blair for preparing me like that (although it felt maybe a bit too much while I was there.) You need absolutely the best and brightest students there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me dread DC going to Blair. Are all the parents like this?

I personally think they dismantle Blair and keep all the uber-smart kids in their home schools where they can still flourish.

Sure at Frost, there's clearly a sizable cohort of high-achievers, so the magnet doesn't matter, but at many schools, that's not the case. The magnets provide a strong cohort for many kids who don't happen to live in the bounds of such a school. Frost's success shows that the county's policy to focus on outliers is working since these kids are doing great at their home school.

Agree schools like Frost don't need the magnet. This also frees up more seats for others.

It's clear from Frost's victories with the Science Bowl that the county made a good choice by keeping this sufficiently large high-achieving cohort together rather than sending many to the magnet.

The selection changes seem to be working well. Maybe they can keep them together at Wootton too in order to free up more space @Blair.

I think that's a great idea.

First they take magnet opportunity away then they will rezone Wootton kids to crown. These kids are just not going to get the education they need.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me dread DC going to Blair. Are all the parents like this?

I personally think they dismantle Blair and keep all the uber-smart kids in their home schools where they can still flourish.

Sure at Frost, there's clearly a sizable cohort of high-achievers, so the magnet doesn't matter, but at many schools, that's not the case. The magnets provide a strong cohort for many kids who don't happen to live in the bounds of such a school. Frost's success shows that the county's policy to focus on outliers is working since these kids are doing great at their home school.

Agree schools like Frost don't need the magnet. This also frees up more seats for others.

It's clear from Frost's victories with the Science Bowl that the county made a good choice by keeping this sufficiently large high-achieving cohort together rather than sending many to the magnet.

The selection changes seem to be working well. Maybe they can keep them together at Wootton too in order to free up more space @Blair.

I think that's a great idea.

First they take magnet opportunity away then they will rezone Wootton kids to crown. These kids are just not going to get the education they need.

At least they'll have a strong cohort at Crown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me dread DC going to Blair. Are all the parents like this?

I personally think they dismantle Blair and keep all the uber-smart kids in their home schools where they can still flourish.

Sure at Frost, there's clearly a sizable cohort of high-achievers, so the magnet doesn't matter, but at many schools, that's not the case. The magnets provide a strong cohort for many kids who don't happen to live in the bounds of such a school. Frost's success shows that the county's policy to focus on outliers is working since these kids are doing great at their home school.

Agree schools like Frost don't need the magnet. This also frees up more seats for others.

It's clear from Frost's victories with the Science Bowl that the county made a good choice by keeping this sufficiently large high-achieving cohort together rather than sending many to the magnet.

The selection changes seem to be working well. Maybe they can keep them together at Wootton too in order to free up more space @Blair.

I think that's a great idea.

No, that's a terrible idea. Blair magnet is nowhere near Takoma magnet in terms of difficulty (ask how I know.) Doing well at top colleges is really a piece of cake after Blair, if you take advantage of all the challenges Blair has to offer. And I'm grateful to Blair for preparing me like that (although it felt maybe a bit too much while I was there.) You need absolutely the best and brightest students there.

Likely the reasons that nearly 50% of the Blair SMCS students come TPMS.

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Anonymous wrote:Check out the mathcounts state qualifier rank, you'll know the quality of this year's TPMS students. We are just low-key and don't want to brag.

What were the schools of the top MathCounts students?

FYI, among the top 20 qualifiers, 10 are from TPMS, 3 from Roberto Clemente, 3 from RF, 2 from Hoover, 1 from CJ and 1 from Kingsview. Among the top 10, 5 are from TPMS, 0 from RF. In case someone doesn't know, each MS can send no more than 12 players. That says about the quality of the 8th grader of TPMS.

Not surprising.

Out of curiosity - Is this the chapter round or state round? What is the distribution of the top 4? Thanks!

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I rather my kid go to a non magnet school that is competitive than a crap school that bussed in smart kids that stick their nose up at the rest of the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out the mathcounts state qualifier rank, you'll know the quality of this year's TPMS students. We are just low-key and don't want to brag.

What were the schools of the top MathCounts students?

FYI, among the top 20 qualifiers, 10 are from TPMS, 3 from Roberto Clemente, 3 from RF, 2 from Hoover, 1 from CJ and 1 from Kingsview. Among the top 10, 5 are from TPMS, 0 from RF. In case someone doesn't know, each MS can send no more than 12 players. That says about the quality of the 8th grader of TPMS.

Not surprising.

Out of curiosity - Is this the chapter round or state round? What is the distribution of the top 4? Thanks!

State and I don't know personally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out the mathcounts state qualifier rank, you'll know the quality of this year's TPMS students. We are just low-key and don't want to brag.

What were the schools of the top MathCounts students?

FYI, among the top 20 qualifiers, 10 are from TPMS, 3 from Roberto Clemente, 3 from RF, 2 from Hoover, 1 from CJ and 1 from Kingsview. Among the top 10, 5 are from TPMS, 0 from RF. In case someone doesn't know, each MS can send no more than 12 players. That says about the quality of the 8th grader of TPMS.

Not surprising.

Out of curiosity - Is this the chapter round or state round? What is the distribution of the top 4? Thanks!

State and I don't know personally.

State is this coming Sunday. The numbers above are likely from chapter but not very accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out the mathcounts state qualifier rank, you'll know the quality of this year's TPMS students. We are just low-key and don't want to brag.

What were the schools of the top MathCounts students?

FYI, among the top 20 qualifiers, 10 are from TPMS, 3 from Roberto Clemente, 3 from RF, 2 from Hoover, 1 from CJ and 1 from Kingsview. Among the top 10, 5 are from TPMS, 0 from RF. In case someone doesn't know, each MS can send no more than 12 players. That says about the quality of the 8th grader of TPMS.

Not surprising.

Out of curiosity - Is this the chapter round or state round? What is the distribution of the top 4? Thanks!

State and I don't know personally.

State is this coming Sunday. The numbers above are likely from chapter but not very accurate.

My kid who is on the TPMS varsity team says 12 kids are going to state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I rather my kid go to a non magnet school that is competitive than a crap school that bussed in smart kids that stick their nose up at the rest of the school.

I would rather my kid is with magnet students and not normies. Sorry. The company sucks in non-magnet schools and in non-magnet programs.

[Anonymous]

Some Asian-American should start a k-12 school for magnet Asian Americans here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to Frost. TPMS is not the same after they introduced the Magnet Lottery.

The 80% lottery isn't going to do them any favors, but the current 8th grade was selected before the pandemic before the lottery.

The admission criteria for the current 8th grade was already loosened with no cogat test

Actually, the admission criteria for the current 8th graders was upgraded from a previously corrupt system.

My goodness yes. TP parents created their own private school within the public system. Got pols kids accepted as the cover. Go Frost!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out the mathcounts state qualifier rank, you'll know the quality of this year's TPMS students. We are just low-key and don't want to brag.

What were the schools of the top MathCounts students?

FYI, among the top 20 qualifiers, 10 are from TPMS, 3 from Roberto Clemente, 3 from RF, 2 from Hoover, 1 from CJ and 1 from Kingsview. Among the top 10, 5 are from TPMS, 0 from RF. In case someone doesn't know, each MS can send no more than 12 players. That says about the quality of the 8th grader of TPMS.

Not surprising.

Out of curiosity - Is this the chapter round or state round? What is the distribution of the top 4? Thanks!

State and I don't know personally.

State is this coming Sunday. The numbers above are likely from chapter but not very accurate.

State is this coming Saturday. The numbers are from chapter and accurate. I took a picture of the final ranking. The top 4 are from TP, RC, TP and RC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out the mathcounts state qualifier rank, you'll know the quality of this year's TPMS students. We are just low-key and don't want to brag.

What were the schools of the top MathCounts students?

FYI, among the top 20 qualifiers, 10 are from TPMS, 3 from Roberto Clemente, 3 from RF, 2 from Hoover, 1 from CJ and 1 from Kingsview. Among the top 10, 5 are from TPMS, 0 from RF. In case someone doesn't know, each MS can send no more than 12 players. That says about the quality of the 8th grader of TPMS.

Not surprising.

Out of curiosity - Is this the chapter round or state round? What is the distribution of the top 4? Thanks!

State and I don't know personally.

State is this coming Sunday. The numbers above are likely from chapter but not very accurate.

State is this coming Saturday. The numbers are from chapter and accurate. I took a picture of the final ranking. The top 4 are from TP, RC, TP and RC.

Exciting! Now if I only knew how to stream the event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to Frost. TPMS is not the same after they introduced the Magnet Lottery.

The 80% lottery isn't going to do them any favors, but the current 8th grade was selected before the pandemic before the lottery.

The admission criteria for the current 8th grade was already loosened with no cogat test

Actually, the admission criteria for the current 8th graders was upgraded from a previously corrupt system.

My goodness yes. TP parents created their own private school within the public system. Got pols kids accepted as the cover. Go Frost!

Best schools in the county!