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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid isn’t “gifted” but is a high performer so I’m prepping her so that she doesn’t have to go to our zoned low performing school that focuses way too much on low performing students. I just want my kid to have a decent and challenging curriculum. Magnet admission for us isn’t about giftedness.[b] It’s about escaping our crappy middle school.[/b][/quote]

I would then caution you to not let down your guard.  Magnet MS, ES and all GT education in MCPS have deteriorated significantly because of MCPS attempts to water down curriculum throughout as well as pushing out excellent teachers. At this point, if you do not supplement outside the school and depend on your kid to learn everything from the magnet program (even if it is better than your crappy school) then you will face another kind of achievement gap. My suggestion would be to look online for curriculum. [/quote]

The opposite seems to be true. In fact, since the advent of universal screening the applicant pool is 5X larger and the most qualified cohort in the county history is now selected. Sure, the uber-preppers whose parents used to game system have a harder time gaining admission, but that's because their kids just aren't that smart.[/quote]

Agree the new system is doing a better job identifying student potential. The cohort rules were a stroke of genius. This made the system much fairer. So many parents with the most have gamed the system for decades. Their kids attend schools that are so much better that people pay hundreds of thousands more to ensure their children attend them. This confers a huge advantage to those who aren't fortunate to attend one of these elite schools. The cohort rules help identify student potential rather than rewarding students who have had every possible advantage. The county is finally making smart moves to better serve its residents.[/quote]

Yes, [b]MCPS asked the magnet teachers to adjust their teaching and expectation when the first cohort-admitted classes entered Eastern and TPMS[/b].  To me, it seems that MCPS admitted a lot of less smart kids since the new policy.  Students with potential?  After three years, the students admitted by lower standard will be math star or fantastic writer![/quote]

I teach in one of those programs. Must have missed that memo! Can you share your copy?

I acknowledge some adjustments made. However, they were mainly made to accommodate a much greater percentage of white students with IEPs and 504 plans. [/quote]
The earlier poster's self-serving narrative about how their little genius was cheated out of their rightful seat in the magnnet by an undeserving minority is getting tiresome. Their claims amount to flimsy anecdotes. The county has made some laudable changes. I hope they keep it up.[/quote]
We have heard about schools with large numbers of high performers sending ridiculously low numbers of students to the middle school magnets. Schools llike Cold spring CES for instance which would normally send a couple dozen only got a couple of spots. We have also heard that mcps is lowering the bar food n who they consider qualified for a slot and students who score above the 85th percentile are treated as equally qualified as children who are in the 99th percentile has [/quote]

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