Current CES class: only one kid got into a magnet MS

[Anonymous]

Isn't the true measure of a CES how many students it sends to the magnet? If that's not their purpose, they may as well pull the plug on the regional centers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't the true measure of a CES how many students it sends to the magnet? If that's not their purpose, they may as well pull the plug on the regional centers.

I’m a parent of a 4th grader in a CES, in fact currently waiting to pick the child up, and I really truly disagree. Also: I don’t think the point of middle school isn’t to get into high school, the point of high school is to get into college, or the point of college is to get into law school or med school.

My child loves school, has learned a ton, and is thriving. That experience and education won’t just go away if he doesn’t get into a magnet middle.

[Anonymous]

How do parents possibly have the information to start a thread with this title? Are you telling me that your child set up some kind of anonymous poll, perhaps at lunch or recess, of all 25 kids in the class, and then they all answered and all told the truth, and they had all received their mail already, and let’s remember these are 10-year-olds? Do you believe everything else your 5th grader says? (Mom, everyone has iPhones. Mom, nobody got an A on that test. Mom, nobody wears that kind of shoes.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do parents possibly have the information to start a thread with this title? Are you telling me that your child set up some kind of anonymous poll, perhaps at lunch or recess, of all 25 kids in the class, and then they all answered and all told the truth, and they had all received their mail already, and let’s remember these are 10-year-olds? Do you believe everything else your 5th grader says? (Mom, everyone has iPhones. Mom, nobody got an A on that test. Mom, nobody wears that kind of shoes.)

Principal at our CES held a meeting with 5th grader parents to tell them the result. They don't necessarily reveal each name, but we know the total number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do parents possibly have the information to start a thread with this title? Are you telling me that your child set up some kind of anonymous poll, perhaps at lunch or recess, of all 25 kids in the class, and then they all answered and all told the truth, and they had all received their mail already, and let’s remember these are 10-year-olds? Do you believe everything else your 5th grader says? (Mom, everyone has iPhones. Mom, nobody got an A on that test. Mom, nobody wears that kind of shoes.)

Op here...good question, pp. I have one kid who I don’t trust to tell me the truth and one who is honest/precise to a fault “actually mom...”. The honest kid is the one who reported what was heard in class. The day after the results came home they took a poll and only one child said he was accepted. They apparently take polls all the time (mostly about Trump, which is hilarious). I am inclined to believe my child because I have no reason not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents possibly have the information to start a thread with this title? Are you telling me that your child set up some kind of anonymous poll, perhaps at lunch or recess, of all 25 kids in the class, and then they all answered and all told the truth, and they had all received their mail already, and let’s remember these are 10-year-olds? Do you believe everything else your 5th grader says? (Mom, everyone has iPhones. Mom, nobody got an A on that test. Mom, nobody wears that kind of shoes.)

Op here...good question, pp. I have one kid who I don’t trust to tell me the truth and one who is honest/precise to a fault “actually mom...”. The honest kid is the one who reported what was heard in class. The day after the results came home they took a poll and only one child said he was accepted. They apparently take polls all the time (mostly about Trump, which is hilarious). I am inclined to believe my child because I have no reason not to.

And it wasn’t anonymous—I was told the name of the child who was accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents possibly have the information to start a thread with this title? Are you telling me that your child set up some kind of anonymous poll, perhaps at lunch or recess, of all 25 kids in the class, and then they all answered and all told the truth, and they had all received their mail already, and let’s remember these are 10-year-olds? Do you believe everything else your 5th grader says? (Mom, everyone has iPhones. Mom, nobody got an A on that test. Mom, nobody wears that kind of shoes.)

Principal at our CES held a meeting with 5th grader parents to tell them the result. They don't necessarily reveal each name, but we know the total number.

So care to share how many got accepted from tour CES?

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents possibly have the information to start a thread with this title? Are you telling me that your child set up some kind of anonymous poll, perhaps at lunch or recess, of all 25 kids in the class, and then they all answered and all told the truth, and they had all received their mail already, and let’s remember these are 10-year-olds? Do you believe everything else your 5th grader says? (Mom, everyone has iPhones. Mom, nobody got an A on that test. Mom, nobody wears that kind of shoes.)

Principal at our CES held a meeting with 5th grader parents to tell them the result. They don't necessarily reveal each name, but we know the total number.

So care to share how many got accepted from tour CES?

Cold Spring CES, less than 5. I don't feel comfortable to say more, but that's what our principal being explicit about.

[Anonymous]

You mean last year?

[Anonymous]

Fox chapel, 5 accepted out of ~55.
In previous years, ~25

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fox chapel, 5 accepted out of ~55.
In previous years, ~25

What is the comparison to last year? More, less or the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fox chapel, 5 accepted out of ~55.
In previous years, ~25

Well darn, we moved to upcounty once the older graduated magnet HS to get away from the craziness. Apparently, the well has been poisoned everywhere.

Thanks for the update! All the best to your child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids went through the Mcps magnet programs in years past. My youngest is in magnet HS and my heart aches for the high performing students who are being rejected because of essentially racial politics in MCPS. So sorry. Remember this and translate it into action when you have the opportunity to be able to influence employment, promotion and internships. Be color blind and pick the best candidate. Do the due diligence and make sure that you are not fulfilling some extreme version of racial agenda.

Is a high performing student who spent the summer in magnet test prep courses funded by his/her professor parents a better candidate than an almost as high performing student with a single parent and no test prep? The best candidate, imho, will always be the one who has done the most with the least. It's not simply test scores - though maybe you didn't mean that?

Sure, that's the emotional way of looking at it. The logical way would be to say the latter will be less likely to have the home structure in place to handle the 2 hours of homework per night. So, we will either see more kids fail out of the Magnet program or, more likely, the teachers will be forced by administration to slow down the curriculum to accommodate those bright kids without as much support structure. This, of course, would spell the end of the Magnet program as we know it. Often, when decisions are made based off of emotion, things don't turn out as expected.

- Current HS Magnet Parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You mean last year?

Cold Spring PP here. You are asking me? No this year for your reference. OP's Barnsley CES result is also this year.