Did the Takoma MS magnet got MORE white this year?

[Anonymous]

Did anyone else take a look at the numbers on the slides from the AEI meeting? It looks like the pool of students tested was 31% white. Of those invited to Takoma, 39% were white. That compares to 35% white in 2017. How did we just spend millions of dollars on trying to create more diversity and end up with this? Am I missing something?

[Anonymous]

Did crime go down and scores go up?

[Anonymous]

Hey, at least it’s less Asian

[Anonymous]

What were the millions spent on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What were the millions spent on?

+1

What was the cost of the new policy, other than testing more kids and processing their applications?

[Anonymous]

Less interested in YOY change. How does TPMS magnet demographics compare to the county’s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Less interested in YOY change. How does TPMS magnet demographics compare to the county’s?

p this is a better indicator of whether we’re headed in the right direction

[Anonymous]

Out of 100 spots, the difference of a few kids is not really a big deal. There are many other issues to be concerned with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out of 100 spots, the difference of a few kids is not really a big deal. There are many other issues to be concerned with.

+1 That could be a cohort issue or just a blip but we're talking about a difference of two or three kids. Short of instituting racial quotas (BAD), there will always be a bit of swing every year.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it will be a cohort issue. Most of the top 25% students in MS magnets are from one of the HGCs in previous years. The rest of top 25% students are from home schools; among them, at least half of them are students transferred into MCPS during or after 3rd grade so they missed the test for HGC. The old HGCs were good at admitting all of the top 1% students but some of the top 5% students. When mcps only lets a few of the top1% students attend the middle school magnet, the top cohort will be much smaller for the rising 6th graders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Less interested in YOY change. How does TPMS magnet demographics compare to the county’s?

Or, at the very least, if we're looking at year-to-year change, we need more than two years of data (last year and this year).

[Anonymous]

I think the correct question to ask is if the achievement gap was mystically closed this year. I think not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the correct question to ask is if the achievement gap was mystically closed this year. I think not.

No, that's not the correct question. Closing the achievement gap was not the purpose of the pilot change to the MS gifted magnet admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else take a look at the numbers on the slides from the AEI meeting? It looks like the pool of students tested was 31% white. Of those invited to Takoma, 39% were white. That compares to 35% white in 2017. How did we just spend millions of dollars on trying to create more diversity and end up with this? Am I missing something?

Ugh. White people are the worst, right? I personally won't be satisfied until they only get their token 5%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else take a look at the numbers on the slides from the AEI meeting? It looks like the pool of students tested was 31% white. Of those invited to Takoma, 39% were white. That compares to 35% white in 2017. How did we just spend millions of dollars on trying to create more diversity and end up with this? Am I missing something?

They couldn't find enough qualified minority kids. Simple as that. Unless they apply different standards, like colleges do, this won't change.