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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think the list is malicious. But I do think that it makes kids feel bad if they didn't get in and are watching many of their friends get in. It's kind of overwhelming. My kid wasn't even waitlisted and they are a straight A 99%ile TPMS magnet kid. They are not sad/lacking confidence, but they are definitely in their feelings about it (mostly anger and frustration). [/quote]

So did kids with lower scores that your child get in? Is that the cause of anger/frustration?[/quote]

Despite what everyone says they don’t all know each other’s scores. Some with particularly high scores are known to have high scores, but they don’t all know everyone’s score. They do know who does well in class and the kid who get 100 percent in everything are not always the same kids with 300 scores. [/quote]

They mostly do[/quote]

I don’t know if this is something MCPS could control, but in our old district, MAP scores didn’t show on the screen at the end of the test. They were just mailed to the parents a few weeks later.  I never told my kids their scores, because it didn’t seem like something they needed to know. I am not crazy about the atmosphere created when everyone is comparing scores afterwards.  One of my kids is hypercompetitive, and this brings out their bad side. The other one is totally noncompetitive, doesn’t share their scores, and claims that other magnet kids tell her she’s “not that smart for a magnet kid.”  I just think it’s bad for both of them.  [/quote]

My kid at the TPMS magnet is fairly open about their scores with a few friends but it's all in fun. I've never heard of any of them belittling others or anything like that. In fact, they're mostly supportive of one another.[/quote]

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