Impact of CAP/Poolesville Humanities/etc not being criteria-based anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do RMIB and the regional IB programs look for minimum MAP-M scores and/or a certain amount of acceleration in math in selecting applicants? Is it possible for a kid who is strong in English/humanities but only muddling through grade-level math to get into IB programs and succeed, or not really?

Does anyone know this? Will gifted humanities kids likely be locked out of any criteria-based programs if they're weak in math?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do RMIB and the regional IB programs look for minimum MAP-M scores and/or a certain amount of acceleration in math in selecting applicants? Is it possible for a kid who is strong in English/humanities but only muddling through grade-level math to get into IB programs and succeed, or not really?

Does anyone know this? Will gifted humanities kids likely be locked out of any criteria-based programs if they're weak in math?

I don’t know about the IB programs, but to enroll in Poolesville’s Humanities program, you don’t have to be a strong math student. You just have to be on-level for your grade.

“Students in Grade 8 who are enrolled in at least Algebra I may apply to any of the House Certificate programs [at Poolesville] for the following school year.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s kid attended a middle school magnet interested based. The child left after a year due to behavioral problems with the kids.

For me, the biggest benefit of a criteria based magnet is to not have behavioral problem kids in the classroom. I think it’s bigger than the acceleration to be honest.

Similar experience here with families we know. Schools switched to interest-based for what the school claimed were, equity reasons.

If they switch to interest-based at Poolesville, it is going to destroy the program.

[Anonymous]

Let’s stop the doom and gloom. There is some honest evaluation that needs to be injected. First CAP is more a Communications program than full Humanities program like the MS Magnet or IB program. Thus it actually is more interest based.

Second, the same is true for Global Ecology at Poolesville. However, Poolesville is a whole school magnet.

Third, the criteria of both these programs has more to do with the limited availability of spots than any objective need for acceleration.

Fourth and final, cease all this drama and fearmongering. If ya’ll invested half as much time coming up with useful suggestions and actually providing help as yall do complaining things could be soo much better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s stop the doom and gloom. There is some honest evaluation that needs to be injected. First CAP is more a Communications program than full Humanities program like the MS Magnet or IB program. Thus it actually is more interest based.

Second, the same is true for Global Ecology at Poolesville. However, Poolesville is a whole school magnet.

Third, the criteria of both these programs has more to do with the limited availability of spots than any objective need for acceleration.

Fourth and final, cease all this drama and fearmongering. If ya’ll invested half as much time coming up with useful suggestions and actually providing help as yall do complaining things could be soo much better.

Hey, this "ya'll" pp from central office study team:
you've been repetitively telling every post here and under a few other threads to stop "whining" and provide useful suggestions. You know what? Our most mentioned suggestion is to SLOW-DOWN! Yet you just choose to be a total ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s stop the doom and gloom. There is some honest evaluation that needs to be injected. First CAP is more a Communications program than full Humanities program like the MS Magnet or IB program. Thus it actually is more interest based.

Second, the same is true for Global Ecology at Poolesville. However, Poolesville is a whole school magnet.

Third, the criteria of both these programs has more to do with the limited availability of spots than any objective need for acceleration.

Fourth and final, cease all this drama and fearmongering. If ya’ll invested half as much time coming up with useful suggestions and actually providing help as yall do complaining things could be soo much better.

We would be glad to provide suggestions and help if we had any avenues to provide them or any hope they would be listened to. But there hasn't been any real community feedback opportunities on this issue, and even the "design team" advisory group isn't listened to, let alone random parents from the community.