Tell me about TPMS Magnet
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Anonymous
Comments like this is why I would never do this to my child. This is not the most important thing in the world that you would change your job or job hours. It really isn't. PP, you are what is wrong with this program. It is a terrible system and instead of being sympathetic that many kids that SHOULD be in the program are not because of logistic and time challenges, you make it seem like EVERYONE should drop anything like you did. So, it really isn't the best kids in these programs. It is the kids whose parents jump thru hoops and find a way to apply, practice testing, tutoring, and will eagerly accept and drive their kid anywhere anytime. Oh and nice coming on her shaming other parents. Bravo!! |
Anonymous
Over your jobs, over your health, over your child's emotional health, sleep, and well being? What wonderful role models you are. 
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Anonymous
Why don’t you google it? This isn’t true. The test administrators themselves consider 250s to be a top score. Sure you can score higher but 1) 350 is not possible and 2) anything above 250 is considered maxing out. |
Anonymous
You are incorrect. See this information on the NWEA website (the makers of the MAP test): https://nwea.jiveon.com/docs/DOC-1651 YOu may have been looking at information from the MAP tests for lower grades (K-2 or 2-5). Here's a slightly older document with some information about maximum scores: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1nA_PlvjvwFTi5vMwRxlfmmVUJo63pfwn67ZAMHaV4oU |
Anonymous
+ same experience Also when there are disrupting kids and low expectations, even magnet kids find it boring and as a result no one take the classes seriously |
Anonymous
STFU. If your snowflake's education is of the highest importance to you, that is the only reason your child is there to begin with. This is why we need to be like Howard, Fairfax, etc.. and have gifted programs in each school based only on teacher's recommendations. Parents manipulating the system for years at MCPS and it is embarrassing. They may have tighten up admission procedures a tad, but it still only benefits those who have the means. And to see parents like you actually boasting about it here is sickening. |
Anonymous
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There is some real weirdness on this thread.
The bus ride is a real issue, and the PP being callous about how they "value their child's education" is being a jerk. Of course access is an issue, and it is more of an issue for single-parent families, or families where parents do not have flexible work schedules. It is also true that those of us who live in the eastern part of the county have dealt with YEARS of being told we don't value our kids' educations, so it is moderately amusing that this one time we've apparently done something right by having a short magnet bus ride. So, if there's any overlap between folks complaining about the bus ride, and folks who have in the past disparaged east county parents, please examine your choices. |
Anonymous
The document you are citing is one of the ones I looked at to prove my point. |
Anonymous
My 5th grader scored 296 on winter map-m, and had scored greater than 260 since second grade. I read somewhere that the maximum is 300 or 310 for map-m. |
Anonymous
Amazing scores. From personal experience, however, prepare for a score drop next year. The MAP scores do go as high as that, but become unstable as your child reaches the ceiling of their current version. Those documents show the MAP M 2-5 maxing out in the mid 200’s, and once your child scores above that, the results are inaccurate... they will have many subjects on their MAP M 6+ next year that were not on the MAP 2-5. And those high scores will be accurate until your child reaches 300 on the MAP M 6+. |
Anonymous
True. Thanks for the suggestion and I'm readily prepared especially when knowing the 6th grade fall's MAP has completely different pool of questions. |
Anonymous
I had no idea these MAP scores were important and that you have to prepare for them! I thought it was just some evaluation that the school did to understand how well they - the school is doing! |
Anonymous
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https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/852905.page
^^ Eastern AMA |
Anonymous
Have gone through magnet for older DC due to the same belief and now having serious doubt about sending the younger sibling to magnet It is not really worth it for both the child and family |
Anonymous
I think there are disruptive kids in every middle school. However, the rising class of 6th graders will include almost 60 CES kids from Piney Branch, plus CES kids from ESS that went to a regional center and a lot of other bright and motivated kids from Piney Branch and ESS (like my kid and a lot of his friends) that didn't test into CES. There is an especially strong cohort of 5th graders entering TPMS next year. |