How many MCPS staff have/had their own kids in magnet programs?

[Anonymous]

Us there any preferential treatment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Us there any preferential treatment?

Why would there be? The people selecting these kids don't have the child's name.

[Anonymous]

I’m a former mcps employee. Trust me, there is no preferential treatment. At all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Us there any preferential treatment?

Why would there be? The people selecting these kids don't have the child's name.

It wasn't a problem for the DC schools chancelor so I suppose it's possible here too.

[Anonymous]

I'm not an MCPS employee but this is gross speculation. The admissions are name-blind and race-blind. The absolute most advantage an MCPS employee could possibly have is having a sense of the test.

[Anonymous]

Get this, there could even be magnet teachers who don't want that for their kid.

[Anonymous]

Nice let's just make up extra things to gripe about

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not an MCPS employee but this is gross speculation. The admissions are name-blind and race-blind. The absolute most advantage an MCPS employee could possibly have is having a sense of the test.

What does that mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not an MCPS employee but this is gross speculation. The admissions are name-blind and race-blind. The absolute most advantage an MCPS employee could possibly have is having a sense of the test.

What does that mean?

That if you proctor the magnet test, you will see the test and thus know what's on the test.

[Anonymous]

Not the same issue, but I have teacher friends who have been unable to get COSAs to send their kid to the school where they teach. The principals I know who have made cosa requests have had better luck. I don’t actually think principals’ kids get preferential treatment for magnets, but I’m saying there’s no way that teachers do. We always get screwed.

[Anonymous]

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not an MCPS employee but this is gross speculation. The admissions are name-blind and race-blind. The absolute most advantage an MCPS employee could possibly have is having a sense of the test.

What does that mean?

That if you proctor the magnet test, you will see the test and thus know what's on the test.

Aren't they given the same day anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a former mcps employee. Trust me, there is no preferential treatment. At all.

+1

The head of the TPMS magnet has a kid who was not admitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice let's just make up extra things to gripe about

+1

Extra imaginary things.

[Anonymous]

You think BOE members put their kids in the system they screwed up? No way! Public school is only their battle field for political accomplishments. See where Obama's kid go? Sidwell