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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're talking about both sides of your mouth. First you obnoxiously claim that in bound TPMS students are so much smarter than the rest of the DCC kids that they would get into those spots even competing fairly against the rest of the DCC. Second, you flip around and claim that the in bound seats can't be shared with the rest of the DCC because that would overcrowd TPMS by 75 kids -25 per grade.

Its utterly wrong that the in bound neighborhoods get to claim ownership and not compete fairly with the rest of the consortium. There are neighborhoods that feed into SSIMS and Sligo MS that are closer to TPMS than some of the in boundary neighborhoods. There are areas in Silver Spring that are right next Blair but are zoned for Northwood and others that drive past Blair to get to Northwood. You can't argue that the neighborhoods closest to where the magnets reside somehow have ownership when neighbors that live closer to the school than you are not getting the same breaks.

TPMS in bound residents already enjoy an advantage in the test score bump that 150 OOB extra high performers bring to the school. On top of that you want special access and not to have to compete against the rest of the DCC which has as much right to special privileges as you do. [/quote]

I think you're responding to me, but also assuming that all previous comments were me. I promise there are many parents posting on this thread, not just one.  I live in the SSIMS feeder, so it was others who made claims about DCs who would have gotten in anyway, went on to Blair, etc.  My only claim is that even though we have zero data on how the inbound students rate compared to the out-of-bounds, we know by the size of TP and the talent that's there, that some non-negligible number would go to TP either way.  I doubt it's 25 but I also doubt it's less than 10.  Since the argument seems to be heading into comparing SSIMS students to TP--having had kids at SSIMS and some knowledge of who went to TP instead, and how very few go to SMACS--I suspect there are more high fliers inbound at TP, but you suspect otherwise. I've been observing the how-do-kids stack up game from ES to college now, but maybe you're running off just as many years of anecdotes, (and, yeah, anecdotes aren't data, but that's all either of us have behind our biases, and we're not going to come to agreement, clearly).

As far as the set aside, it only works for inbounds.  You think 25, 75 students is nothing, but it's not, that's a staffing issue.  Three classrooms of kids is three physical rooms occupied in the school, it's at least three full time employees.  DCC boundaries may be adjacent and weirdly drawn, but unless 75 TP students, chosen at random get tossed across that boundary, it does not work to expand the set aside to the whole DCC.  Now argue all you want about the set aside, and TP government cutting out perks for their families, it's still separate.  For now, the set aside is there, it only works for inbound students, and it likely frees up a few extra spots for out-of-bounds students whether in the DCC or elsewhere.[/quote]

The poster you're attempting to reason with doesn't live in the DCC. They're a bitter parent whose kid didn't make the cut and are simply trying to stir up trouble.[/quote]

You must be right, thanks.[/quote]

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