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[quote=Anonymous]I think that parents and PTA's should lobby a lot harder for more TAG middle school slots.  If you play with the numbers for Glennarden Woods, Highland Park and Capitol Heights ES it looks like all the 2nd graders got slots there.  That's over TAG 150 kids being drained out of the local ES.  Those kids automatically get into TAG MS.  If they aren't going to have more slots open at MS, why even bother telling us to apply for the lottery.  If they can expand French Immersion, Spanish Immersion and TAG at ES level, why not expand at MS level.  Seems like low hanging fruit to me.  There are 63 TAG eligible kids on the Kenmoor MS waitlist for 6th grade.  That's 2 full classes of TAG kids who are going to get a lower quality of TAG services than the other TAG kids in the county.  PGCPS are REQUIRED to provide TAG services to identified kids.  What happens to those kids who may not be ready for all day TAG at 6 or 7 years old who are ready at 10 or 11?  It is unfair and frankly I think that it could be a lawsuit against the county.   I have no faith in the TAG office people right now.  They either have no idea what is going on or are just blowing smoke up my a$$ when I ask about available slots at MS level.

If they don't fix this MS problem now they are never going to keep middle class families in the county.

We need to lobby Dr Maxwell and Mr Baker on this or it will never be addressed.  I'm pretty sure that this isn't even on Baker's radar.

If we keep ES kids in their local schools through 5th grade that will improve our neighborhood ES schools.  That in turn will eventually impact the middle schools etc.

It's this sort of thing that makes me want to throw my hands in the air and give up.

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