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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rest in Peace Middle School Magnets. What you once were you will be no longer. I think MCPS should change the description on the website now so it stops claiming it is for the highly able academic learners. If they want to change it and keep it like this - with no COGAT and an 85th percentile cutoff for MAP scores- then they need to change their claims of the magnet existing to meet the needs of MCPS highly gifted students who need more challenge and rigor.[/quote]

Yeah.  People on here have been saying that this was the goal for years and I thought it was a bit of an exaggeration.  But, looks like those posters were correct.  MCPS wanted to get rid of the Magnets.  They were doing nothing to support the primary MCPS goal of closing the Achievement Gap.

They will eventually have to change the description.  The magnets are most certainly, no longer meant to be for the ‘best and brightest’ of all students.  Just some randomly chosen (but not really quite random) students based on location and school FARMS rates.  [/quote]

It is over. Slippery slope leading to the bottom. Enjoy your magnet schools progressive white parents. You did it! [/quote]

The ‘progressive white parents’ don’t care one bit.  They were some of the first to pull their kids out last year for private school when they saw that MCPS was a lost cause.  [/quote]

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