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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Such sour grapes![/quote]

lol I don't even have kids.  Overall quality and rigor has gone down[/quote]

I teach in a MCPS MS Magnet and disagree. Give me specific examples from the Magnet classes you are teaching this year to support your argument.[/quote]

It's great to hear from a magnet teacher.  I suspect that there aren't enough magnet seats in MCPS and there are probably many students who could be magnet students without lowering the overall quality and rigor?  What do you think?

Also, do you have any opinion on the programs being installed in local middle schools so that those with a gifted local peer group don't need the magnet?

Thanks for the great work you do.  Both my kids went through a magnet middle school  (don't know if it's yours) and had a fantastic experience.  It challenged them and gave them an excellent foundation.  I'm often a critic of MCPS, but the magnet program was great.[/quote]

I’m uncertain about adding another 20-25 students to my current load. Whether that would be a fifth class or simply four larger classes, I’m sure it would change some instruction and assessment options currently very doable. I would be happy to see at least two more Magnet programs open. This would allow many more seats (200) and ease the burden of the long bus ride for some families. However, to recruit the Magnet teachers needed, MCPS needs to do a better job in how it treats its professional staff, especially new hires.

I attended the summer training for the enriched course in my subject area and continue to follow developing lessons. I think that if executed faithfully by the selected teachers, it will be both fun and rigorous for students in schools with a large gifted cohort. I question a school deciding to offer it to the entire sixth grade. That seems a parent-pleasing move rather than having carefully assessed student needs. I will definitely touch base with relevant people next week to see if this is truly what is happening. I suspect the poster may have confused the Advanced course with the enriched one.

Thank you. I’m glad it was a worthwhile experience for your children. The past two weeks, I’ve carefully watched the students that some posters here don’t think deserve to be in my classroom. These kids are not just holding their own, they are excited and already greatly contributing to our learning community. They are as curious, hard-working, delightfully smart, and quirky as the present-seventh graders who were admitted under the old system. [b]The only sixth grade student I have concerns about handling the rigor is one who would have come from the traditional pool[/b]. [/quote]

I am genuinely curious - how do you know that one particular kid would have come from the "traditional pool"? What is "the traditional pool?" (And how can you be sure that none of the others would have come from the "traditional pool?")[/quote]

We formerly received a large number of our students from a few specific schools. That is not the case this year. [/quote]

The overall student quality is lower this year[/quote]

This really looks like trolling, when you quote a poster who says they're a teacher.  Nothing to prove your statement, not even punctuation.  [/quote]

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