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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is in fifth grade and taking compacted math. He took the grade 6 map test this week. Does anyone know how this will affect placement into middle school magnets? How will they compare those who took the 6th grade test against those who took the 5th grade test?[/quote]

This is all part of an MCPS conspiracy to help justify sending lower-performing students to the magnets over the high-scoring students. They know there is a correlation between affluence and standardized test scores so the is one of the ways they can improve selection diversity.[/quote]

+1. They even say in all of their meetings that their goal for the magnets is to achieve proportionality from a race/ethnicity perspective. Meaning that the racial make up of the students in the magnets mirrors the racial make up of the students county-wide. But this ignores all of the data they present that clearly shows that certain racial groups are overwhelmingly testing and performing very very below grade level in aggregate.  Until they intervene and remediate that reality at earlier grades, you do not have students prepared for these programs in equal ratios to their proportions in the system. And it’s incredible also, because the process of selecting students is supposed to be race blind! Their agenda isn’t to serve the biggest outliers or the kids without a cohort. Their agenda is to manipulate the admissions to demonstrate momentum toward racial proportionality. I would encourage them to actually work harder to improve their teaching methods in earlier grades because clearly a student’s race or ethnicity is not determinative of giftedness or ability. [/quote]

To this and the point above about statistical uncertainty for individual scores, the data that OSA will use to review the selection criteria and present to the BOE almost certainly will be exlusively aggregate, reducing the uncertainty across the whole test-taking poulation, but not evidencing the underlying uncertainty (and likely injustices) when applying the selection methodology to individuals.  If so, the review would tend to support continuation of the current paradigm more than it otherwise should.[/quote]

The main problem with the current paradigm MAP-based paradigm is that the test content doesn't go anywhere near testing for capability or motivation for an enriched curriculum.

So the very low lottery bar adds more noise to an already noisy process. "Justice" was never on the table for a program that only admits a tiny group of kids and makes them ride a long bus ride if they live far away.

The magnet enhanced curriculum should be available to kids (self-service) in every school, and they should do a 1 day a week in-person or virtual pullout for enrichment  topics for qualified kids if they can't support a full dedicated class for the school's cohort. [/quote]

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