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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The TPMS parent vehemently trying to defend her entitlement to easy set aside seats is really shooting herself in the foot.

An addition 20 inbound TPMS student who perform at or above grade level can easily be absorbed into the general program. Its the increase in kids with learning disabilities or who are performing several grade levels behind and need to be in collaborative or lower ratio classes that create more os a strain on staffing levels.

Parents don't realize that there is a cut off in all advanced classes that doesn't always correlate with who can do the work. Many of the inbound TPMS students are better suited to the advanced track in the general program. By pulling them away, there are fewer advanced track classes. If they go into the general program then more non advanced track classes can flip to advanced which will open the door to kids who are in on grade level math but could move up if there were more peers available.

From a score standpoint, the overall growth at TPMS, like most schools in MCPS, is coming from kids who are performing below grade level and achieving lower scores. Making all 75 seats open to the entire potential applicant pool and accepting the top performers or outliers while keeping the inbound TPMS students that score high but not as well in the general program helps offset the shifting % of students toward lower performance.

There is no way that allowing the inbound seats to predominantly go to white kids that score lower than OOB minorities is going to hold up with a federal investigation into discrimination. One of the easy remedies to save the program from being shut down altogether is to allow those seats not to be hoarded by white families with lower scoring kids but to be competed fairly throughout the county. [/quote]

There is so much wrong here, the whole post needs to be bolded.  Please stop with the unsubstantiated assumptions.  I am guessing you have no experience with TPMS, magnet or non-magnet.  [/quote]

Yes, there are so many ignorant posts like the idiotic ramble above. And, I suspect these are the same people who want everyone to believe their out of boundary kids are smarter. If so, it isn't an inherited trait, I guess.[/quote]

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