Reply to Did the Takoma MS magnet got MORE white this year?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Did the Takoma MS magnet got MORE white this year?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Not true.  I don't have a child who applied this year but I think it is important to speak up on behalf of the children who were discriminated against this year as well as for the children who will be impacted in years to come.  I also think that MCPS needs to be held accountable for their lack of transparency.  They have not published test scores this year as they have in years past and this naturally raises questions about the role of merit in their selection process.
I can't think of any poster who has criticized them for screening more children.  That was a great move.  It is their selection criteria that is being criticized.

There is absolutely a huge achievement gap in this county and most people I know support efforts to reduce the gap and to do as much as possible to improve the academic performance of children who are not reaching their true potential.  I don't think the county is doing enough and I applaud the efforts of the Geoge B Thomas Learning Academy
http://www.saturdayschool.org/programs/
and the Art of Problem Solving's small pilot program in Gaithersburg
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2018/04/straight_up_conversation_math_guru_richard_rusczyk.html

Why not support more efforts like this rather than lowering admissions standards?[/quote]

Why do you assume that admissions standards were lowered?

Also, if you are worried about your children not reaching their true potential because they didn't get admitted to the MS magnet programs, how about sending them to those programs you applaud?[/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