Reply to How is the new pilot offering equivalent to TPMS/Eastern

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "How is the new pilot offering equivalent to TPMS/Eastern"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
NP here.  There are many problems with the Humanities program going to MLK.   The school does not have the many enrichment opportunities that are available in Clemente as a whole.   In years past, there were many students who were accepted to both programs and had to make a tough choice between the two programs. This year it has become easier because MLK is so far behind in so many things. I feel sorry for all the rising 6th grade Humanities students.

Yes, there are still many changes to come to the whole magnet program next year.  [b]Selection criteria to both Clemente and MLK will take race into the equation hidden cleverly in "peer group" criteria.  [/b]

Expect the changes to hit the admissions to magnet HS next year.  RMIB has already seen a change in the program cohort.  Next year, MCPS will play race card again to to get more students in Global Ecology (PHS) and the Humanities (PHS and Blair) magnets.

[/quote]

Could you just stop with this already?

(Also, you know what school didn't have the many enrichment opportunities that are available at Clemente, when the magnet programs started at Clemente? Clemente. No doubt people on DCUM would have said, "I feel sorry for all the rising 6th grade students who will have to go to Clemente instead of TPMS/Eastern." But now here we are.)[/quote]

MCPS did not remove the magnet program from TPMS/Eastern to create a program at Clemente.  Right now, not only has MCPS removed the Humanities program from Clemente, but in fact, they have cut down the magnet writing class from the curriculum.  MLK 6th grade Humanities is not the same program that the current Clemente 6th grade Humanities student are getting. Next year, MLK 6th grade Humanities will not be the same program that 6th grade Humanities students will be getting.

Other problems with MLK - a very inapt administration,  no additional programs, complete lack of parental engagement, not a working PTA.  Since the students are at a middle school for only three short and crucial years, this is a grave injustice to students who have got in because of their hard work and talent.  Not because of the color of their skin.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics