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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20:03 here

We didn’t fill out race box in profile and have Anglo-sounding name. (Most others I have met with this last name are white). But in reality,  DC has been working 2 or 3 grades ahead in most subjects and outperforms kids in top private. [b]Perhaps my child is a unicorn[/b], but I doubt it given the extremely bright, hardworking families  I meet every day. I this area you can fill classrooms with a diverse group of gifted students without lowering standard.

We were thinking of public for economic reasons and naively believed that DC could find bright friends from varying SES backgrounds.  These threads make me very concerned about the mentality of families in  Montgomery County.

Don’t assume until you have all the data. 
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Based on all the testing data in MCPS (and honestly nationally) yes, your child is something of a unicorn.

According to the PARCC results for 8th grade Geometry (reasonable assumption for kids aiming for a magnet) there were:

499 White students that exceeded expectations.
20 AA students that exceeded expectations.
25 Hispanic students that exceeded expectations.
435 Asian students that exceeded expectations.

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These numbers are extremely disappointing. More needs to be done to deepen the bench of highly able urm students who now constitute half the kids in the county[/quote]
[b]Why are the numbers so low for AA and Hispanic students in 8th grade Math?[/b][/quote]
Good question.   [/quote]
Because some elementary schools have a culture where they don't believe "these kids" can achieve and don't actively challenge them. I taught at a high FARMS middle school and our math department was fantastic at assessing kids and finding students who were capable. The number of kids who arrived with advanced MAP-M scores (and advanced math scores from the test before PARCC) but who hadn't been accelerated was infuriating. They created a special Math 6/IM class to get them into Algebra in 7th grade where they should have been. The first two years of the new curriculum 3 feeder elementaries couldn't "find" enough advanced students to offer compacted 4/5, so a small class of 12 4th graders was sent up to the middle school to teach it. That didn't fly for long. The cluster superintendent mandated that the elementaries "find" 15 kids out of 150 that could take compacted 4/5 and offer the class the next year. Shockingly, when they got to middle school to take IM in 6th grade, they were just fine.

Systemic racism is still alive an well in MCPS, thus the active efforts to try to offset it in other ways.[/quote]

Yes, of course,  "systemic racism".  That's what you blame poor results on when by every objective measure MCPS is spending enormous time and resources on URM students.[/quote]

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