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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all so far away from the realities of what we are going through upcounty that it is becoming hilarious. We are just hoping for some decent enrichment to ever come to our home schools... to have your problems (magnet school or cohort with enrichments) would be delightful![/quote]

Eh? The upcounty has middle-school magnet programs, CESs, and home-school enriched classes too.[/quote]

No, the county is considering whether to give upcounty middle schools the enriched curriculum next year, depending on identified cohort. They envision “most” schools will have “at least one.” So while downcounty kids are getting the enrichment in pilots this year, we get to wait, possibly forever. Like downcounty, our magnets are small and have limited seats. MLk just started. So PP who is so upset about their child forced to stay at excellent home middle school with a large and powerful cohort and 2 special enrichment classes can cry me a river.[/quote]

Oh - stop being so melodramatic. "MLK just started" ?? The humanities magnet just moved from Clemente to MLK.

And, just like what was done with CES admissions, DCCAPS chose to pilot the new MS magnet admission process in one area and then extend to the rest. And they are extending it the *very next year*.

(Also, to make you feel better about upcounty, did you know that all upcounty MS students can apply to the humanities magnet at Poolesville? If you live downcounty, you do not have access to anything equivalent unless you live/study in DCC.)[/quote]

Aren’t we discussing middle school? I am telling you, as an upcounty resident, that the chances of a child receiving sincere enrichment in middle school up here are far less than any child downcounty. MCPS is managing expectations for us and saying that we will likely get at least one class. Which is central office code for maybe, but don’t bet on it. Right now, a highly able math student gets sent to take math with the less abled kids the year ahead. You can imagine how well that goes. RM IB is an amazing humanities program, in addition to the excellence math and science, so don’t drool over our Poolesville humanities program too much. But... we are SUPER grateful that the Poolesville high school has significant enrichment opportunities. It has been wonderful on multiple levels, academically and socially. And there is a lot to love about the upcounty schools. But the fact remains that three middle school years up here aren’t currently a great academic fit for highly abled kids unless you get into the very limited magnet spots. We do wish we had your home school cohorts in enrichment “problem.”[/quote]

It seems you have this fuzzy feeling of MCPS ignoring the upcounty needs, but do you have any data to support it?

RM IB is open to the WHOLE county. (Blair CAP, the equivalent of Poolesville humanities, is not open to all downcounty students.)

Limited seats in the magnet programs - problem everywhere. (Upcounty MS magnets serve about half as many MS as downcounty magnets. And the number of seats reflects that.)

MS getting at least one enriched class - what MCPS has done downcounty.

Again - MCPS has extended the program *the very next year* after the pilot. You might want to wait and see how they are implementing it, which schools get only one enriched course and why, etc. before beating your chest.[/quote]

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