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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I do not think that the BOE will go through with Dr. Martirano's suggested redistricting plan.  He did this for political optics to appease the bleeding hearts.  People will fight his plan and put pressure on the board to come up with a logical redistricting option that will not destroy the high performing schools in Howard County.  However, there are three known school board members who have their hands in the back pockets of county council members who are crazy enough to vote in Dr. Martirano's plan.

There is already backlash and community protests.  The next few board meetings in Howard County are going to be quite interesting.

Also, if your child is segregated into all GT courses, then you have nothing to worry about.  Physical education will be the only course that your child will have to interact with the lower performing students.  Physical education is usually okay because I find that students who are not academically inclined actually do well in physical education.  However, if your child is in any of the regular major subject courses (math, science, geography, English, etc.), then your child will encounter some problems.  Parents of GT students have nothing to stress about.  Parents of non GT students better fight like Hell!

The GT students self segregate themselves from those students.  So, there is limited interaction, peer pressure, and excusable social destruction if your child takes all GT courses.   Parents of white and Asian students will have nothing to worry about because for the most part white and Asian students self segregate themselves anyway.

Please note that if you are a parent of a high performing or GT African American and Latino child, then, you too better fight like Hell.  Lower performing minority students (specifically African American and Latino) are negative influences towards GT AA and Latino students.  There is way too much social pressure to not value education and to engage in social destructive behaviors.  You want your child to thrive in an environment where being an intellectual is phenomenal and not in an environment will they will be ostracized for "acting white".[/quote]

My kids are AA, both attended/currently attend TPMS, and are high performing. They did not have the experiences you note. Several of my younger DD’s friends are low income and are doing well in terms of behavior and academics. I’d rather they hang out than my kids hang with those middle class TPMS white kids who smoke weed.[/quote]

Are you sure your kids are at TPMS?  I thought the drug problem for white kids starts in high school.   When my kid was at TPMS, an AA kid brought weeds in 8 oz ziplock bads and threw them around with other AA kids during PE.  We never received any email about that incident.  I am not sure if it was an isolated event or happens often. [/quote]

I think the drugs your kid does at home made him hallucinate that event.[/quote]

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