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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - I did read it, and now I see where the "school assessment" is defined as the MAP and the questionnaire is part of the PARCC, but that information - that defining - relies on weird punctuation. If you miss the colon, and read it as a comma, then you might not get it. Also - weird use of parentheses.

Anyway, I am just frustrated with the new rules, I guess - [b]and wish MCPS would just open MORE magnets[/b], since so many families want their children to go![/quote]
Those schools ARE the home schools, with the two enriched classes. Current magnet students have two core classes that are enriched (one from each magnet), plus one specialty elective course. While people may want the exact magnet courses transferred, in reality those electives are too teacher/school resource dependent and not easily transferable. (I've had one kid in each and sat through many discussion regarding curricular/teacher issues. It's a real problem.)

Now that there are peer cohorts in certain schools, parents need to monitor and advocate to ensure that the enriched curriculum is actually offered, and that students actually have access to the classes. I think that parents should also be advocating for the addition of enriched Science and enriched English to be offered. In the long run, that would benefit advanced students to have access to all four core courses at an enriched level, rather than only two when they have to choose between programs. [b]If people spent as much time at their home schools working with their PTAs and advocating for enriched instruction as they do complaining here on DCUM about the new process, they wouldn't have anything to complain about at their home middle school.[/b] [/quote]

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