Anyone know what the Middle School Magnet Process will be like this year?
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Anonymous
Yeah. Least they can do. |
Anonymous
Totally agree. |
Anonymous
OMG OMG OMG The sky is falling! You realize they scheduled the CogAT this year and the only reason it was suspended was the test owners wouldn't let them administer it online. |
Anonymous
And what's keeping them from administering it this year? During in-person classes? Exactly. The pesky test does get in the way. |
Anonymous
Yeah. People on here have been saying that this was the goal for years and I thought it was a bit of an exaggeration. But, looks like those posters were correct. MCPS wanted to get rid of the Magnets. They were doing nothing to support the primary MCPS goal of closing the Achievement Gap. They will eventually have to change the description. The magnets are most certainly, no longer meant to be for the ‘best and brightest’ of all students. Just some randomly chosen (but not really quite random) students based on location and school FARMS rates. |
Anonymous
Exactly. I am pretty amazed by the caliber of students in my DS’ CES this year. Way, way below what it has been in the past. Nice kids, but definitely not the super high-achieving, highly motivated students from the past. Some may argue that this will be a good thing (and maybe it will be) because it will be lower pressure. But it is definitely clear that these centers are not meant to cater to the very, very top percentile of students. |
Anonymous
It is over. Slippery slope leading to the bottom. Enjoy your magnet schools progressive white parents. You did it! |
Anonymous
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Yeah, right. Four weeks in and you're already making judgements? I've had exactly the opposite experience but at least I know well enough realize it's still early in the year. I doubt your child is even in CES.
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Anonymous
After two years of lottery, you think they will go back to a test next year? No chance. It is over unless there is a legal challenge. |
Anonymous
Which CES is your child in? Some CES programs have been hit differently than others, depending on which schools they pull from. My neighbor is a CES teacher. She has taught in the CES for over a decade. She and I talk all the time and she has admitted that the students in the CES 10 years ago were truly phenomenally talented kids. She has seen such a difference in the past 3 years especially. This year, at the Virtual Open House, about 1/3 of the parents showed up. A decade ago? Pretty much every parent showed up. |
Anonymous
The ‘progressive white parents’ don’t care one bit. They were some of the first to pull their kids out last year for private school when they saw that MCPS was a lost cause. |
Anonymous
Is the very top percentile of students the same as the highly motivated high-achieving students? My son was at CES, and had 99% MAPs, but wasn't particularly highly motivated. He liked to chit-chat, play soccer, and read. If school work interested him, he got into it. But if it wasn't interesting, he'd just read a book instead. I think he read more books than any of the other kids at CES, but he definitely wasn't the most highly motivated or the highest achieving. |
Anonymous
| 85% doesn't seem to make much sense. That's just like okay smart. They should use at least 90%, or maybe something like 90% or above for last two years, plus at least one score about 95%. And then lottery from there. That would probably create a pretty good pool of kids. |
Anonymous
Are you dense? above 95% will lead to same old asian contingent. the purpose is to purge the asians. |
Anonymous
Exactly! mcps is following the 85% so that they can also get some minority groups into the lottery and then they can “randomly” select a higher number of AA and Latinos then previous years. While in the process removing a good chunk of Asians from the mix. |