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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was never common even before the lottery.

None of you actually seem to have a child at TPMS because there are still only a very small number of kids in this situation and they come from all over. I do think there's a child from Frost but most of the rest are not from Ws. Many of the kids who were accelerated when they used the Cogat were not getting offers from TPMS anyway. Once your child goes to Blair it won't matter anyway. The most advanced kids take a special class in 9th/10th and often kids go "backwards" in order to take it. Backwards is really the wrong term but I can't think of a better one but the kids who skipped a year end up in the same class as the ones who did not. You can't predict who does well in that class based on their previous math path either.[/quote]

Not really. TPMS outright refuses to let anyone take Algebra in 6th unless they took AIM in 5th and the kids that meet that criteria don't come from all over but one or two specific schools that allow this. However, MS's like Frost however allow anyone who scores over 250 on their map-m to take Algebra in 6th at least I've read this here. My children went through TPMS.[/quote]

It sounds like the advantage to TPMS isn't really a huge advantage for some math kids then.[/quote]

Except the TPMS kids get to accelerate through their math classes as they only have math every other day. They are literally getting through the curriculum in 50 percent of the time of the other kids who have math every day. The other 50 percent of the time they are taking Magnet computer science.[/quote]

The A/B schedule is pretty common in Middle School.  They have longer classes each day so its the same amount of class time.[/quote]

No it’s not. The magnet kids take math every other day. The non magnet kids take it every day - meaning magnet algebra has 50 percent less teaching time than regular non magnet algebra which is every day, despite the odd/even day schedule.[/quote]

Then, TPMS sounds pretty terrible.  A/B schedule is common in many middle schools.  It may not be in your experience but we are on an A/B schedule.  [/quote]

I’m not sure how to make this any clearer. TPMS has an A/B schedule, but non-magnet students have math on both A and B days, which are actually known as odd/even days at TPMS. Magnet students don’t have math every day. On A or odd days (for example) they have magnet math and in B or even days they have magnet computer science. Or Vice versa. I’m not sure why that’s so hard to understand. They have a more in depth math curriculum and half the lesson time as the other students not in the magnet program.[/quote]

Ok, what do you want?   This makes little sense but ok.  You cannot have a more in depth math curriculum with half the lesson time.  That sounds pretty terrible.[/quote]

Well, it makes little sense because the other PP is misinformed.

Generally speaking, most MS students spend ~45 minutes everyday in a math period. At TPMS magnet, they spend ~90 minutes every OTHER day. So overall math instruction time is similar.

At TPMS, apparently the non-magnet kids spend ~90 minutes every day on math. If true, that would make the TPMS nonmagnet math the outlier, and not the magnet math.[/quote]

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