Reply to MS Magnet admissions: are CES students at a disadvantage?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "MS Magnet admissions: are CES students at a disadvantage?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS documents clearly state that seats were allocated differently, with more directed toward students assigned to lower performing MSs. For Eastern and Takoma Park, 75 seats went to non-CES kids, 25 to CES kids. Anyone who thinks that ratio makes sense based on purely objective criteria is smoking something.[/quote]

Well, it’s gotta be healthier than smoking sour grapes...[/quote]

Their post literally doesn’t add up since there are around 220 to 240 total seats at eastern and Takoma. Without a credible source iit appears they’re making up numbers to suit their narritive of choice and lend credit to unproven conspiracy theories. [/quote]

Maybe the PP is confused about numbers vs. percents.

But yes, I agree. Obviously everybody who wants to maximize their child's chances for the math/science middle school magnet program should move to the Takoma Park service area - or the Roberto Clemente service area![/quote]

Perhaps, but they post clearly stated 75 seats, not percent... but more importantly they failed to provide any type of corobating citation which means it's all just BS. [/quote]

I can try to offer some "corobating citation"
Here is the MCPS document stating that more "

Here is the MCPS document clearly showing that certain middle schools have a lot of highly qualified students:
Cabin John, Frost, Hoover, Pyle, Silver Spring International and Sligo.

We know that on average just over 3 students from each CES were accepted into Takoma or Eastern
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/Summary%20of%20the%20Middle%20School%20Magnet%20Data.pdf

We have anecdotal evidence (from DCUM posters) that some CESs only had a couple of students accepted into the middle school magnets.  Students at CESs at schools such as Cold Spring ES and Pine Crest seem to have been at a real disadvantage, presumably because of the geographical/ peer cohort criteria.

Worth noting that the same MCPS document also shows that nearly every middle school has enough highly qualified students to have a full class of gifted math and gifted social studies so highly gifted students in these middle schools would presumably have a peer group in their home middle school.

Another MCPS document which notes that this year's magnet class is different in a notable way:
"Has the program itself changed as a result of the new screening process for the Science, math, computer science program?

We still have many top math students in our new sixth grade class, and [b]we are seeing a greater diversity in ability.[/b] This is an important opportunity for highly able students to be able to step up into a more rigorous curriculum. What has changed is not the rigor of the program or our expectations of students. [b]What has changed is instruction and what the teachers need to do[/b]. Our teachers are expected to provide supports and scaffolding to help all magnet students attain the level of mastery of students working at a high level in mathematics"

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/curriculum/specialprograms/middle/Grade%205%20Parent%20FAQ's%20.pdf

[/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