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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

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I don't understand this point, PP.   What are you trying to say?[/quote]

Sorry the rambling....I wasn't clear at all :)

My point is that many parents decide to send their kids to the TAG ES magnets because they see that as a guaranteed path to a good middle school and then onto the IB HS program.  I think that if they knew they had a guaranteed spot (or at least some reasonable odds) of getting into a TAG MS then they would choose to stay at their local school.  Because of the TAG drain in 2nd grade, it is harder for local ES to justify expending resources to provide Tag in the Regular Classroom (TRC) or even more faculty for Tag Pull Out sessions.  If there were more schools offering TRC then the non-TAG kids in that class would benefit by being challenged by the TAG curriculum.   And that would snowball into higher test scores etc.

Additionally, the parents who put their kids into the TAG lottery are often of have a higher SES than the general student body.  Parents of a higher SES are more likely to be involved in PTA etc so parental involvement in the school goes down at those schools where there is a high TAG drain.

An example of the TAG MS issue can be seen by comparing Spellman (Great School Rating of 6)  to Rockledge (Great School Rating of 6). Spellman lost about 12% of the class between 1st and 2nd grade last year.  Rockledge's enrollment increased by 1.  Acceptance rates to their TAG magnets are basically the same.  So what is one of the apparent differences?  Spellman feeds into Gholson (GS rating of 3) while Rockledge feeds into Samuel Ogle MS (GS rating of 7) and Bowie HS.

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