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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The highest performing cohort on the magnet entrance exam from Cold Spring has been making the highest performing cohort in TPMA and  Blair.  This highest-performing cohort on one test also excels in MAP-M and MAP-R, PARCC, MSA for the past twenty and thirty years.  
This cohort will be the scientists who find a cure for cancer and discover the reusable fuel to save the earth, the engineers who build new computers and smartphones.  Some of the students from this cohort will your doctors, your lawyers, or your financial advisor.  
They may become teachers or politicians.  
Most of the students in this cohort are from middle-class families with taxpaying, working parents.
It is not fair for MCPS to deny their chance to join the MS magnets, just because of their zip code.  
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OK...I am a Cold Spring parent, but this post made me laugh out loud.  It is a bit melodramatic.  I truly think something else was at play in this selection process.  MCPS did cast a larger net and I think it is fantastic.  Having said that, I do question the selection process when only 2 kids out of this entire cohort were offered admission.  I do not know if these are kids who will one day find the cure to cancer or are future politicians or whatever else, but I do know they scored incredibly high on MAP tests, PARCC and whatever other they had to take as part of the magnet testing.  I am sure there are a few kids who prep, but I also know there are plenty of them who did not.  It is really terrible how some people cast such negative lights on these children.  I, for one, did not even know who Dr. Li was until this board kept bring his/her name up.  The kids at Cold Spring ES are truly bright, motivated, curious and incredibly hard-working.  When you have a combination of smartness and eagerness (and I do not imply this for only at Cold Spring, but at other schools as well), these kids deserve an opportunity to be engaged with the proper curriculum.  Given that MCPS has decided to change the selection process, I also think they should also be prepare with something for these kids as they return to their home middle schools.  To not have a plan in place seems most irresponsible.  The fifth graders at Cold Spring are learning material that I was not taught until I had reached 7th/8th grade.  It would be ashamed to have them repeat for the next 2 years.  That is not thriving and is not in the true interest of the students.

My kid does not wish to have the long bus ride to Takoma.  I can't imagine any kid would prefer this.  I do think that sometimes parents feel that they have very little choice because MCPS turns a blind eye to what these 99%-ers need, thus the overwhelming and hyperbolic emotions from some parents.

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