Magnet MS results - Takoma Park & Eastern - anyone heard today?

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We didn’t fill out race box in profile and have Anglo-sounding name. (Most others I have met with this last name are white). But in reality, DC has been working 2 or 3 grades ahead in most subjects and outperforms kids in top private. Perhaps my child is a unicorn, but I doubt it given the extremely bright, hardworking families I meet every day. I this area you can fill classrooms with a diverse group of gifted students without lowering standard.

We were thinking of public for economic reasons and naively believed that DC could find bright friends from varying SES backgrounds. These threads make me very concerned about the mentality of families in Montgomery County.

Don’t assume until you have all the data.

Based on all the testing data in MCPS (and honestly nationally) yes, your child is something of a unicorn.

According to the PARCC results for 8th grade Geometry (reasonable assumption for kids aiming for a magnet) there were:

499 White students that exceeded expectations.
20 AA students that exceeded expectations.
25 Hispanic students that exceeded expectations.
435 Asian students that exceeded expectations.

These numbers are extremely disappointing. More needs to be done to deepen the bench of highly able urm students who now constitute half the kids in the county

Why are the numbers so low for AA and Hispanic students in 8th grade Math?

Good question.

Can anybody provide a link to the numbers above. On the state of maryland site, it says that 2022 students total took the geometry parcc in 2017. I couldn't figure out how to break out 8th graders only (except to look school by school). Do half of montgomery county students take the geometry parcc in 8th grade? That seems high to me.

The overall numbers for hispanic and black students taking the geometry parcc are low in 2017 period. Only 171 hispanic students took the test out of 2022 total test takers. Only 202 black students took the parcc. If I sorted right, the 2022 includes highschoolers and middle schoolers.

I looked at 10 different middle schools for 8th graders taking parcc, and out of ten schools only 1 had enough hispanic students taking the test to even report data (you have to have at least 10 students to report). Roberto Clemente had 10 8th grade hispanic students take the parcc geometry and 4 of those students exceeded expectations. Based on this data, why does Montgomery County even care about increasing participation in the magnets. We need to get more hispanic (and black kids) into the highest level math first and worry about magnet participation second.

I agree with the above poster, that there is definitely a low expectation culture in high farms schools, but expanding the pool of kids that can take compacted math, should help participation in higher level math and subsequently increase participation in magnets.

http://www.reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/

Click on the PAARC results, and you can slice/dice to your hearts content.

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Anonymous wrote:20:03 here

We didn’t fill out race box in profile and have Anglo-sounding name. (Most others I have met with this last name are white). But in reality, DC has been working 2 or 3 grades ahead in most subjects and outperforms kids in top private. Perhaps my child is a unicorn, but I doubt it given the extremely bright, hardworking families I meet every day. I this area you can fill classrooms with a diverse group of gifted students without lowering standard.

We were thinking of public for economic reasons and naively believed that DC could find bright friends from varying SES backgrounds. These threads make me very concerned about the mentality of families in Montgomery County.

Don’t assume until you have all the data.

Based on all the testing data in MCPS (and honestly nationally) yes, your child is something of a unicorn.

According to the PARCC results for 8th grade Geometry (reasonable assumption for kids aiming for a magnet) there were:

499 White students that exceeded expectations.
20 AA students that exceeded expectations.
25 Hispanic students that exceeded expectations.
435 Asian students that exceeded expectations.

These numbers are extremely disappointing. More needs to be done to deepen the bench of highly able urm students who now constitute half the kids in the county

Why are the numbers so low for AA and Hispanic students in 8th grade Math?

Good question.

Because some elementary schools have a culture where they don't believe "these kids" can achieve and don't actively challenge them. I taught at a high FARMS middle school and our math department was fantastic at assessing kids and finding students who were capable. The number of kids who arrived with advanced MAP-M scores (and advanced math scores from the test before PARCC) but who hadn't been accelerated was infuriating. They created a special Math 6/IM class to get them into Algebra in 7th grade where they should have been. The first two years of the new curriculum 3 feeder elementaries couldn't "find" enough advanced students to offer compacted 4/5, so a small class of 12 4th graders was sent up to the middle school to teach it. That didn't fly for long. The cluster superintendent mandated that the elementaries "find" 15 kids out of 150 that could take compacted 4/5 and offer the class the next year. Shockingly, when they got to middle school to take IM in 6th grade, they were just fine.

Systemic racism is still alive an well in MCPS, thus the active efforts to try to offset it in other ways.

Yes, of course, "systemic racism". That's what you blame poor results on when by every objective measure MCPS is spending enormous time and resources on URM students.

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Anonymous wrote:20:03 here

We didn’t fill out race box in profile and have Anglo-sounding name. (Most others I have met with this last name are white). But in reality, DC has been working 2 or 3 grades ahead in most subjects and outperforms kids in top private. Perhaps my child is a unicorn, but I doubt it given the extremely bright, hardworking families I meet every day. I this area you can fill classrooms with a diverse group of gifted students without lowering standard.

We were thinking of public for economic reasons and naively believed that DC could find bright friends from varying SES backgrounds. These threads make me very concerned about the mentality of families in Montgomery County.

Don’t assume until you have all the data.

Based on all the testing data in MCPS (and honestly nationally) yes, your child is something of a unicorn.

According to the PARCC results for 8th grade Geometry (reasonable assumption for kids aiming for a magnet) there were:

499 White students that exceeded expectations.
20 AA students that exceeded expectations.
25 Hispanic students that exceeded expectations.
435 Asian students that exceeded expectations.

These numbers are extremely disappointing. More needs to be done to deepen the bench of highly able urm students who now constitute half the kids in the county

Why are the numbers so low for AA and Hispanic students in 8th grade Math?

Maybe it's because, through affirmative action, AA are taught at an early age that they can't compete on an even playing field with Whites and Asians. Low expectations translates into low performance. When it comes to 1st generation Hispanic immigrants, the education their children receive is so far superior to their home countries that they are perfectly happy with these numbers.

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Maybe it's because, through affirmative action, AA are taught at an early age that they can't compete on an even playing field with Whites and Asians. Low expectations translates into low performance. When it comes to 1st generation Hispanic immigrants, the education their children receive is so far superior to their home countries that they are perfectly happy with these numbers.

Is it fun for you to type hateful stereotypes anonymously on the Internet, PP? Otherwise I can't think of a reason for your post.

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I am hopeful that it is one racist troll who keeps posting on all these threads, and not multiple people. Ugh