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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just have to say this.  I hate the lottery.  I hate a system that keeps my 260+ MAP-M/R scoring, straight A kid out of the MS Magnet program.  MCPS sucks.  [/quote]

No, it doesn’t suck.  It’s a *public* school system; its goals are to meet the needs of as much of the public as possible.  People at either are extreme are usually going to have the most mismatch, with the ones at the lower end suffering the most.

My high-percentile scoring, straight A kid didn’t get in either.  Oh well.[/quote]

A public school system should aim to give kids an education.  It should give accelerated / magnet education only to the brightest kids.  [/quote]

I do not understand why an English teacher or Science teacher in middle school, teaching 4 or 5 classes, cannot teach half at "regular" speed, and half at "advanced speed". Why is this so hard ? I went to school in MCPS in the 90s and this is exactly what we had - there were honors classes for each of the core subjects. Sometimes one teacher would only teach honors (this was generally unpopular because most of the teachers preferred teaching honors kids). Other times the teachers just split the load. But it was the same course, taught at greater speed, with some extra, more challenging assignments.  For example, honors english had 2 or 3 more books total to be read, etc. [/quote]

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