Takoma Park MS Magnet - 25 inbound seats?

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Anonymous wrote:It's time to get rid of the 25 seat set aside. It is only benefiting white people.

I can feel the envy of the Rockville Asians

Asians currently take over 50% of all magnet slots but feel underrepresented despite being under 15% of the county's population?

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If they get rid of the 25 set aside the magnet will be limited to 100 students per cohort year. It will not open 25 spots to additional students because there is no available space (the school is over capacity). The 25 inboundary students don't change the capacity number for the building as they would attend the school with or without the magnet.


Yup, and then the top 25 inbound students are added to the competition for the 100 slots so the size of the magnet available to out-of-bounds students goes down. But these parents would do it just for spite.

I don't 25 seats are going to kill any overall capacity numbers. MCOS does nothing at schools that are 400-600 over capacity all the time so 25 is nothing. The 25 in bound seats really should be available to the entire DCC not just the TP area. I agree that Bethesda and Potomac people or Rockville Asians should be kept where they belong in their own schools but the other DCC schools should get a shot at the easy seats.

Is it too late to add B-CC to the DCC now that there's something in it for us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We TKPK-ers just need to learn to ignore these Non TKPK-ers who made a choice to not live here and now have FOMO. OK, so our less qualified kids got into TPMS magnet. They"ll meet your kids in the Blair magnet and let's figure out how dumb our kids are/were.

The irony! I've read so many self-righteous posts stating if I valued my child's education I'd have bought in a W pyramid. Apparently, someone hadn't thought this through...

-TPMS in-boundary parent

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Anonymous wrote:If they get rid of the 25 set aside the magnet will be limited to 100 students per cohort year. It will not open 25 spots to additional students because there is no available space (the school is over capacity). The 25 inboundary students don't change the capacity number for the building as they would attend the school with or without the magnet.

This is the whole point — why don’t people understand this? Those 25 spots do not affect non-TP people at all!

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Anonymous wrote:The TPMS 25 easy to get in spots are not affirmative action spots. There is no preference given for race or FARMS. Most of those spots go to white kids. It was a hook to get more in bound private schools kids back into the school.

The DCC would do far better on test score if more people sent their kids to public instead of private schools. The private school usage in Bethesda doesn't really matter because the rest of the kids staying in public are still high scoring. This isn't true in the DCC so there need to more not less hooks to get the kids out of the privates.

Omg

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Anonymous wrote:The TPMS 25 easy to get in spots are not affirmative action spots. There is no preference given for race or FARMS. Most of those spots go to white kids. It was a hook to get more in bound private schools kids back into the school.

The DCC would do far better on test score if more people sent their kids to public instead of private schools. The private school usage in Bethesda doesn't really matter because the rest of the kids staying in public are still high scoring. This isn't true in the DCC so there need to more not less hooks to get the kids out of the privates.

Omg

Those 25 seats should be given back to Cold Spring like in the old days before universal screening. Our children are cheated by students who are clearly undeserving.

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But I keep reading that TPMS is an impossible distance from Bethesda and Potomac, and so nobody from Bethesda and Potomac goes there? Or is that Blair? I can never keep this stuff straight.

Many white families in Bethesda and Potomac have not historically applied to either TPMS or Blair. It has been the Asian-American families choosing the long bus ride.

Wootton is the biggest feeder into Blair and was the biggest feeder into TPMS. I have no idea how kids from Wootton can stand that bus ride. The area that feeds Wootton is somewhere between Darnestown, Gaithersburg, Rockville and Western Potomac. Its very far out there.

According to the magnet student directory, Blair is the biggest feeder into Blair.

There is no magnet student directory

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Those 25 seats should be given back to Cold Spring like in the old days before universal screening. Our children are cheated by students who are clearly undeserving.

You must feel so left out that all your neighbors got into a magnet and your kids did not. Oh the horror of staying in gen pop and risking ending up in Wonton high. I feel your pain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We TKPK-ers just need to learn to ignore these Non TKPK-ers who made a choice to not live here and now have FOMO. OK, so our less qualified kids got into TPMS magnet. They"ll meet your kids in the Blair magnet and let's figure out how dumb our kids are/were.

Maybe they will do well enough to afford to live in Bethesda? Unlike some of their parents

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I hope so. And I hope they attribute all their success to getting into the TPMS magnet which your kids did not get into. ?

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Wow the TP posters on this thread are bitter.

I mean, I understand. We all get testy when our children lose an unearned, unjustified advantage to get into a program with a superior curriculum.

The only sensible solution is to increase magnet slots and locations. Can anyone explain to me why the county is BUYING culliculums when we have this amazing curriculum with 20+ years of successful utilization sitting right here? Maybe we should be SELLING a cirriculum instead, or at least offer it widely in the county, 1-2 classes in each MS and HS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The TPMS 25 easy to get in spots are not affirmative action spots. There is no preference given for race or FARMS. Most of those spots go to white kids. It was a hook to get more in bound private schools kids back into the school.

The DCC would do far better on test score if more people sent their kids to public instead of private schools. The private school usage in Bethesda doesn't really matter because the rest of the kids staying in public are still high scoring. This isn't true in the DCC so there need to more not less hooks to get the kids out of the privates.

Omg

Those 25 seats should be given back to Cold Spring like in the old days before universal screening. Our children are cheated by students who are clearly undeserving.

I hope this is a joke, otherwise these W parents aren't too bright.

[Anonymous]

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But I keep reading that TPMS is an impossible distance from Bethesda and Potomac, and so nobody from Bethesda and Potomac goes there? Or is that Blair? I can never keep this stuff straight.

Many white families in Bethesda and Potomac have not historically applied to either TPMS or Blair. It has been the Asian-American families choosing the long bus ride.

Wootton is the biggest feeder into Blair and was the biggest feeder into TPMS. I have no idea how kids from Wootton can stand that bus ride. The area that feeds Wootton is somewhere between Darnestown, Gaithersburg, Rockville and Western Potomac. Its very far out there.

According to the magnet student directory, Blair is the biggest feeder into Blair.

There is no magnet student directory

That’s odd since a half-dozen magnet parents were discussing it here just last week. See for yourself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The TPMS 25 easy to get in spots are not affirmative action spots. There is no preference given for race or FARMS. Most of those spots go to white kids. It was a hook to get more in bound private schools kids back into the school.

The DCC would do far better on test score if more people sent their kids to public instead of private schools. The private school usage in Bethesda doesn't really matter because the rest of the kids staying in public are still high scoring. This isn't true in the DCC so there need to more not less hooks to get the kids out of the privates.

This is so misinformed. Let's start w/ "easy to get in." You do realize these are some of the top students and excellent students don't get in in-boundary? There are many excellent students. No seat is an "easy" seat to get. I do think MCPS needs more magnet seats overall, but suggesting in-boundary kids are in some way "less than" is just sour grapes on your part.

There are many other top students from other school zones who do not get in the program.

Leaving 25 seats for the in-boundary kids - if true - is itself suggesting the in-boundary kids are weaker (and need the favor).

If they compete fairly with other kids, it is unlikely in-boundary kids would get 25 seats in the program each year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

But I keep reading that TPMS is an impossible distance from Bethesda and Potomac, and so nobody from Bethesda and Potomac goes there? Or is that Blair? I can never keep this stuff straight.

Many white families in Bethesda and Potomac have not historically applied to either TPMS or Blair. It has been the Asian-American families choosing the long bus ride.

Wootton is the biggest feeder into Blair and was the biggest feeder into TPMS. I have no idea how kids from Wootton can stand that bus ride. The area that feeds Wootton is somewhere between Darnestown, Gaithersburg, Rockville and Western Potomac. Its very far out there.

According to the magnet student directory, Blair is the biggest feeder into Blair.

There is no magnet student directory

That’s odd since a half-dozen magnet parents were discussing it here just last week. See for yourself.

I've seen people giving clearly contradicting information here.

So I would not trust all the info people give here, including the claim of whether they are magnet parents and whether there are magnet directories or not.