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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When the majority students from HGCs at Cold Spring ES and Barnsley ES are denied a chance to attend MS magnets, the students and parents are confused.  Many of the denied students have all four test scores sr 99%.  The Asian students were hit disproportionally by this new admission policy.  At the infomation meeting at TPMS, there are more white students, less Asian students, handful of black students and Hispanic.  Some of the white student may be white hispanic. [/quote]

I think I know the reason why you are confused...

you either think the test score alone determines magnet admission,

or you've arbitrarily assigned a high value in your head for the test score, while minimizing other considerations: MAP testing, PARCC scores, classroom grades, pre-test questionaire, and peer group at the home middle school.[/quote]

Even considering PARCC, MAP testing, there is no doubt in my mind that the Cold Spring kids did well.  How would I know this?  I am told that kids get their MAP scores as well as the distribution of their classmates' scores (no names listed, of course).  In terms of classroom grades, I am not sure how MCPS would interpret that.  Getting an A is likely harder at the HGC than at the home school.  I do think that peer group was the deciding factor at the end.  That is not to take away the achievements of the kids who did get in to Takoma/Eastern, who do deserve an opportunity.  If the are the outlier at their school, then they should be given an opportunity.  But for people who kept insisting that the kids who got into Takoma/Eastern got much better marks than those who got rejected from the HGC, I don't think that was necessarily the case.  MCPS did the right thing in casing a wider net and offering opportunities to outliers, but they also need to do the right thing by offering those who are high-achievers with cohorts a similar curriculum.[/quote]

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