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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a conversation needed is how do the non magnet “home” schools accommodate these high achieving students. If they’ve identified a peer group. Will they group these students together (outside of IM & Advance English)

My child was not accepted. Straight As (at an HGC) MAP scores above 250, 5s on PARCC, 99% in all four areas. Asian. Non-w school.

Anyone know if grades at an HGC were weighted equally to non-HGC schools?
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I agree with this.  From both a diversity perspective and a meeting-student-needs perspective, seems like the kids from good home schools aren't getting into the magnts.  That's ok - IF the home schools are going to be ready to support them.  Yes, they're maybe better than some of the other schools, but that doesnt mean that teachers are ready to add enrichment activities for all these kids in the 99% percentiles who normally would be shipped out to magnets.

I'm glad  I live in a good school area (& that we chose wisely & paid for the privilege!) but want to be sure it's going to meet my kids needs.   [/quote]

This x100. Not the part about my feeling like a 'good school area' is so important, but rather that ANY home middle school with a significant # of kids that are in the top 1% should be meeting these kids' needs! It's unacceptable to not have gifted tracks for kids outside the 200 top kids in these school clusters, if there are so many other gifted kids in the system.

I for one do not mind that there is an effort to get gifted children of presumably less-privileged backgrounds into a gifted track to cultivate their talents. The universal testing approach, if it achieves this, is fine with me. The theory that the magnet places are going to students with no gifted 'peer groups' at their schools, which by extension implies that they are from underperforming schools and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, is also ok with me--to the extent that the existing home schools' "'peer groups" of gifted students would actually mean something (like, they are in a group that receives academic attention commensurate with their academic potential.)
It seems that this is not the case, however. I feel like contacting my child's future MS to ask what plans they have for meeting these gifted kids' needs. After all, I now have the official MCPS CogAT results that show my child is in the top 1%.
If there was a gifted but disadvantaged child (let's say, little home support and non-native English speaking parents) at my kids' home middle school, how is it serving this child's needs to be at a middle school with no gifted program? theoretically, this disadvantaged child would be one that MCPS would want to help succeed, but putting him/her in a general educational track does not do this.[/quote]

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