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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone’s DC at Blair come from TPMS magnet and not doing SMCS/Cap? Did they find their place ok? Find challenging courses? DC is very disappointed not being accepted and hoping things will be ok. Thanks in advance.

How can a TPMS magnet go to Blair to do non SMCS/CAP unless Blair also happens to be home school ?

I think the PP is asking what Blair is like for kids coming from either Eastern or TPMS who do not end up in one of the application based program? What’s it like for kids coming from lots or rigor and then are not ones that get a spot in CAP or SMCS?

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Anonymous wrote:This may sound harsh but I believe that the smarter the kid, the less HW each night because they more quickly understand the topic and material. The rigor of the curriculum is more of a struggle for the less naturally bright students who prep'ed and prep'ed and prep'ed for the admissions test and had help with their essay (you know who you are). It will be even more of a struggle for those students who get in based more on the "peer group" criteria than aptitude. If the county implements the "peer group" criteria for Blair SMES, the entire program will change for the worse.

It sounds both harsh and inaccurate.

From my anecdotal observations - in HS - this is both harsh and inaccurate.

Sounds logical to me..... Since homework assigned is a constant - The smarter the kid, the easier the homework. The dumber the kid, the harder the homework.

My guess is that the PP's who say "inaccurate" probably spent a shmit-ton of cash on the magnet prep courses and think this made their kid amazingly gifted. I guess it made their kids used to doing 4hrs of homework a night while others spend 2hrs a night.

I am one of those PPs and didn't spend a dime. Kid currently in Blair magnet w/ like a 4.9GPA. You make no sense. Some kids just invest more. Mine spends more than I think she needs to on Eng. She's just a deep kid. Or, in math, if she doesn't get something, she will wrestle w/ it on her own longer than the others who run to the group chat right away. You have a funny way of simplifying people and shoehorning them into your small minded biased notions.

How is it possible to have a 4.9 with required classes that aren't weighted?

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Anonymous wrote:This may sound harsh but I believe that the smarter the kid, the less HW each night because they more quickly understand the topic and material. The rigor of the curriculum is more of a struggle for the less naturally bright students who prep'ed and prep'ed and prep'ed for the admissions test and had help with their essay (you know who you are). It will be even more of a struggle for those students who get in based more on the "peer group" criteria than aptitude. If the county implements the "peer group" criteria for Blair SMES, the entire program will change for the worse.

It sounds both harsh and inaccurate.

From my anecdotal observations - in HS - this is both harsh and inaccurate.

Sounds logical to me..... Since homework assigned is a constant - The smarter the kid, the easier the homework. The dumber the kid, the harder the homework.

My guess is that the PP's who say "inaccurate" probably spent a shmit-ton of cash on the magnet prep courses and think this made their kid amazingly gifted. I guess it made their kids used to doing 4hrs of homework a night while others spend 2hrs a night.

I am one of those PPs and didn't spend a dime. Kid currently in Blair magnet w/ like a 4.9GPA. You make no sense. Some kids just invest more. Mine spends more than I think she needs to on Eng. She's just a deep kid. Or, in math, if she doesn't get something, she will wrestle w/ it on her own longer than the others who run to the group chat right away. You have a funny way of simplifying people and shoehorning them into your small minded biased notions.

How is it possible to have a 4.9 with required classes that aren't weighted?

It's called exaggeration to try and prove her point.... Or maybe her daughter took Honors Yoga

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Anonymous wrote:This may sound harsh but I believe that the smarter the kid, the less HW each night because they more quickly understand the topic and material. The rigor of the curriculum is more of a struggle for the less naturally bright students who prep'ed and prep'ed and prep'ed for the admissions test and had help with their essay (you know who you are). It will be even more of a struggle for those students who get in based more on the "peer group" criteria than aptitude. If the county implements the "peer group" criteria for Blair SMES, the entire program will change for the worse.

It sounds both harsh and inaccurate.

From my anecdotal observations - in HS - this is both harsh and inaccurate.

Sounds logical to me..... Since homework assigned is a constant - The smarter the kid, the easier the homework. The dumber the kid, the harder the homework.

My guess is that the PP's who say "inaccurate" probably spent a shmit-ton of cash on the magnet prep courses and think this made their kid amazingly gifted. I guess it made their kids used to doing 4hrs of homework a night while others spend 2hrs a night.

I am one of those PPs and didn't spend a dime. Kid currently in Blair magnet w/ like a 4.9GPA. You make no sense. Some kids just invest more. Mine spends more than I think she needs to on Eng. She's just a deep kid. Or, in math, if she doesn't get something, she will wrestle w/ it on her own longer than the others who run to the group chat right away. You have a funny way of simplifying people and shoehorning them into your small minded biased notions.

How is it possible to have a 4.9 with required classes that aren't weighted?

It's called exaggeration to try and prove her point.... Or maybe her daughter took Honors Yoga

She is only a Sophomore though, right?

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Anonymous wrote:This may sound harsh but I believe that the smarter the kid, the less HW each night because they more quickly understand the topic and material. The rigor of the curriculum is more of a struggle for the less naturally bright students who prep'ed and prep'ed and prep'ed for the admissions test and had help with their essay (you know who you are). It will be even more of a struggle for those students who get in based more on the "peer group" criteria than aptitude. If the county implements the "peer group" criteria for Blair SMES, the entire program will change for the worse.

It sounds both harsh and inaccurate.

From my anecdotal observations - in HS - this is both harsh and inaccurate.

Sounds logical to me..... Since homework assigned is a constant - The smarter the kid, the easier the homework. The dumber the kid, the harder the homework.

My guess is that the PP's who say "inaccurate" probably spent a shmit-ton of cash on the magnet prep courses and think this made their kid amazingly gifted. I guess it made their kids used to doing 4hrs of homework a night while others spend 2hrs a night.

I am one of those PPs and didn't spend a dime. Kid currently in Blair magnet w/ like a 4.9GPA. You make no sense. Some kids just invest more. Mine spends more than I think she needs to on Eng. She's just a deep kid. Or, in math, if she doesn't get something, she will wrestle w/ it on her own longer than the others who run to the group chat right away. You have a funny way of simplifying people and shoehorning them into your small minded biased notions.

How is it possible to have a 4.9 with required classes that aren't weighted?

It's called exaggeration to try and prove her point.... Or maybe her daughter took Honors Yoga

PP here. No, it's not an exaggeration. She has a lot of weighted classes. Her arts elective is honors

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Anonymous wrote:This may sound harsh but I believe that the smarter the kid, the less HW each night because they more quickly understand the topic and material. The rigor of the curriculum is more of a struggle for the less naturally bright students who prep'ed and prep'ed and prep'ed for the admissions test and had help with their essay (you know who you are). It will be even more of a struggle for those students who get in based more on the "peer group" criteria than aptitude. If the county implements the "peer group" criteria for Blair SMES, the entire program will change for the worse.

It sounds both harsh and inaccurate.

From my anecdotal observations - in HS - this is both harsh and inaccurate.

Sounds logical to me..... Since homework assigned is a constant - The smarter the kid, the easier the homework. The dumber the kid, the harder the homework.

My guess is that the PP's who say "inaccurate" probably spent a shmit-ton of cash on the magnet prep courses and think this made their kid amazingly gifted. I guess it made their kids used to doing 4hrs of homework a night while others spend 2hrs a night.

I am one of those PPs and didn't spend a dime. Kid currently in Blair magnet w/ like a 4.9GPA. You make no sense. Some kids just invest more. Mine spends more than I think she needs to on Eng. She's just a deep kid. Or, in math, if she doesn't get something, she will wrestle w/ it on her own longer than the others who run to the group chat right away. You have a funny way of simplifying people and shoehorning them into your small minded biased notions.

How is it possible to have a 4.9 with required classes that aren't weighted?

It's called exaggeration to try and prove her point.... Or maybe her daughter took Honors Yoga

PP here. No, it's not an exaggeration. She has a lot of weighted classes. Her arts elective is honors

How do you get into an honors art elective as a sophomore? Did she waste her freshman elective with art too?

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Anonymous wrote:This may sound harsh but I believe that the smarter the kid, the less HW each night because they more quickly understand the topic and material. The rigor of the curriculum is more of a struggle for the less naturally bright students who prep'ed and prep'ed and prep'ed for the admissions test and had help with their essay (you know who you are). It will be even more of a struggle for those students who get in based more on the "peer group" criteria than aptitude. If the county implements the "peer group" criteria for Blair SMES, the entire program will change for the worse.

It sounds both harsh and inaccurate.

From my anecdotal observations - in HS - this is both harsh and inaccurate.

Sounds logical to me..... Since homework assigned is a constant - The smarter the kid, the easier the homework. The dumber the kid, the harder the homework.

My guess is that the PP's who say "inaccurate" probably spent a shmit-ton of cash on the magnet prep courses and think this made their kid amazingly gifted. I guess it made their kids used to doing 4hrs of homework a night while others spend 2hrs a night.

I am one of those PPs and didn't spend a dime. Kid currently in Blair magnet w/ like a 4.9GPA. You make no sense. Some kids just invest more. Mine spends more than I think she needs to on Eng. She's just a deep kid. Or, in math, if she doesn't get something, she will wrestle w/ it on her own longer than the others who run to the group chat right away. You have a funny way of simplifying people and shoehorning them into your small minded biased notions.

How is it possible to have a 4.9 with required classes that aren't weighted?

It's called exaggeration to try and prove her point.... Or maybe her daughter took Honors Yoga

PP here. No, it's not an exaggeration. She has a lot of weighted classes. Her arts elective is honors

How do you get into an honors art elective as a sophomore? Did she waste her freshman elective with art too?

Np here, but parent of 2 Blair alumni. Kids also went to TPMS - no prepping.

I agree with PP that your equating honework time with giftedness is both harsh and inaccurate. I think there are 2 critical factors you're disregarding.

The first is course choice. A student who takes Functions will have more homework. A student who chooses the accelerated computer science program may have more homework. A student who takes AP non-magnet classes will have more homework than someone who chooses Honors level who will have more homework than somebody in the unweighted class. With my 2 kids, because they were gifted, their natural inclination was to learn as much as they could and it was hard to talk them out of taking the fastest/hardest routes available. As a result, their homework time was increases.

The second is personality. One of my children had poor time management and organization. They were also a perfectionist. The other one is a model of efficiency and while thorough, is not a perfectionist. I think it's evident that the first one spent significantly more time on homework than the second, which had nothing to do with their levels if giftedness.

I absolutely believe PP's claims about child's GPA. My children took Algebra 1 H in 6th grade. While it was unweighted, every math class after that was weighted. They maxed out their FL courses, taking weighted levels. They took weighted non-magnet courses. About the only unweighted courses were arts, PE, and Health (and one of them took the weighted section of Health). Don't forget that they have an extra period each year to take a weighted class.

As for taking a weighted arts elective, I suspect her child had previous experience and auditioned into an upper level class. A child playing in the state orchestra is not going to be in "Freshman orchestra". (A lot of these kids are amazingly accomplished - highly recommend you go to Magnet Arts Night).