Reply to How is the new pilot offering equivalent to TPMS/Eastern

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "How is the new pilot offering equivalent to TPMS/Eastern"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]jesus. can you wait until you see what it is before condemning it?[/quote]

Has waiting to see whether someone really screws you over worked for ANYONE in the past?

Think before you type, PP.

We are entitled to more information and concrete plans for students rejected from magnets.
[/quote]

you got a plan, and a timeline. the magnets were MASSIVELY unfair before the new admissions process was put into place. what mcps is doing makes sense. if you don’t like it, move or go to a private.[/quote]

This is not a proper plan!  To me, it's like saying we can't give you that $2K bonus despite your equivalent performance to your coworker, but hey...here's $3 to go get yourself a snack from the vending machine.[/quote]

they had to equalize the process. the old way was clearly bad for kids without in the know parents. this is the result. i really don’t feel bad for you that your snowflake might have to survive with just enriched programming, and not a full magnet program, because the county made a wholly logical decision. [/quote]

This isn't equalizing the process.  [/quote]

yes it is, because it involves broad testing, rather than hinging the process on parent and teacher recommendations.[/quote]

NP here.

Nobody's disputing that part. People are upset about the OTHER selection criteria - the "peer group" or "existing cohort", which is utter and complete social engineering on the part of MCPS. And that's illegal, plain and simple.

What MCPS is doing right now, is trying to avoid a lawsuit. This is a great opportunity to keep pushing for more advanced classes with peer groups of students, be they in magnet programs or regular schools.
[/quote]

you have no evidence they actually used race as a criteria. if they did, they should be sued, but on the face of it, the peer group logic is decent policy, provided they give peer groups adequate instruction at home schools. people are just assuming they’ll fail on the latter part, which is stupid before any of us have seen it play out.[/quote]

I don't think we need to prove racial discrimination. We need to prove socio-economic discrimination, and that is in fact what happened.[/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