Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish.

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected. And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.

If MCPS selects based on income and geography, they really should consider balancing out the sex ratio a little more. 80 girls and 20 boys is not for the social aspects of middle school.

My child has two 6th grade magnet classes at Eastern (out of the 4 magnet classes) that have only 2 boys each (the same two boys). Definitely not great for those kids.

I really don't see why that's a bad thing. For either the boys or the girls. I have boy that's applying to EMS and he's just excited about the program - he could care less about whether other boys are in it or not.

You don't think it's bad to primarily have perspectives of only one gender during class discussion? Also, most Eastern kids don't know many other kids going in and most are only friends with kids of their own gender. This makes it much harder to find friends.

Single-Sex schools have discussions with more than one perspective all the time. Plus one child can give perspective, and media/books/teacher/ can give perspective. I'm not saying that balance isn't a good thing, just not that its the be-all - I'd rather have kids in the class that want to be there and can do the work - regardless of gender. For my child, who is friends with both boys and girls - I don't think it matters.

One child can give the perspective or the kids can read about boys in books?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When your child is in 5th grade it might not seem bad, but when your child is in 8th grade, it will not be good.

Again, why? How is this any different from a single-sex school? - i.e. Landon or Stone Ridge? (Not talking about the academics - just about the class balance).

Well, why is it bad according to MCPS to have the magnet kids only from high SES or better geographic areas? Based on your logic, one child can speak for all low SES kids or they can read about low income children in a book. Unreal

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When your child is in 5th grade it might not seem bad, but when your child is in 8th grade, it will not be good.

Again, why? How is this any different from a single-sex school? - i.e. Landon or Stone Ridge? (Not talking about the academics - just about the class balance).

Are you dumb? We're talking about the minority of boys here, not the majority of girls - for them, yes, it's nearly a single-sex environment. What about for the boys? Would *you* be happy with only one other person of the same sex as yourself, as an 8th grader? I think not. My son would tolerate it if the classes were interesting enough, but he would definitely wish for more boys to hang out with.
It would also be a concern if the balance was reversed, but apparently the sex ratio is less skewed at TPMS.

It's a public school. Not a single sex private school.

Anonymous wrote:When your child is in 5th grade it might not seem bad, but when your child is in 8th grade, it will not be good.

Again, why? How is this any different from a single-sex school? - i.e. Landon or Stone Ridge? (Not talking about the academics - just about the class balance).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish.

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected. And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.

If MCPS selects based on income and geography, they really should consider balancing out the sex ratio a little more. 80 girls and 20 boys is not for the social aspects of middle school.

My child has two 6th grade magnet classes at Eastern (out of the 4 magnet classes) that have only 2 boys each (the same two boys). Definitely not great for those kids.

I really don't see why that's a bad thing. For either the boys or the girls. I have boy that's applying to EMS and he's just excited about the program - he could care less about whether other boys are in it or not.

You don't think it's bad to primarily have perspectives of only one gender during class discussion? Also, most Eastern kids don't know many other kids going in and most are only friends with kids of their own gender. This makes it much harder to find friends.

Single-Sex schools have discussions with more than one perspective all the time. Plus one child can give perspective, and media/books/teacher/ can give perspective. I'm not saying that balance isn't a good thing, just not that its the be-all - I'd rather have kids in the class that want to be there and can do the work - regardless of gender. For my child, who is friends with both boys and girls - I don't think it matters.

When your child is in 5th grade it might not seem bad, but when your child is in 8th grade, it will not be good.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish.

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected. And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.

If MCPS selects based on income and geography, they really should consider balancing out the sex ratio a little more. 80 girls and 20 boys is not for the social aspects of middle school.

My child has two 6th grade magnet classes at Eastern (out of the 4 magnet classes) that have only 2 boys each (the same two boys). Definitely not great for those kids.

I really don't see why that's a bad thing. For either the boys or the girls. I have boy that's applying to EMS and he's just excited about the program - he could care less about whether other boys are in it or not.

You don't think it's bad to primarily have perspectives of only one gender during class discussion? Also, most Eastern kids don't know many other kids going in and most are only friends with kids of their own gender. This makes it much harder to find friends.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish.

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected. And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.

If MCPS selects based on income and geography, they really should consider balancing out the sex ratio a little more. 80 girls and 20 boys is not for the social aspects of middle school.

My child has two 6th grade magnet classes at Eastern (out of the 4 magnet classes) that have only 2 boys each (the same two boys). Definitely not great for those kids.

I really don't see why that's a bad thing. For either the boys or the girls. I have boy that's applying to EMS and he's just excited about the program - he could care less about whether other boys are in it or not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish.

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected. And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.

If MCPS selects based on income and geography, they really should consider balancing out the sex ratio a little more. 80 girls and 20 boys is not for the social aspects of middle school.

My child has two 6th grade magnet classes at Eastern (out of the 4 magnet classes) that have only 2 boys each (the same two boys). Definitely not great for those kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish.

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected. And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.

If MCPS selects based on income and geography, they really should consider balancing out the sex ratio a little more. 80 girls and 20 boys is not for the social aspects of middle school.

Anonymous wrote:Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish.

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected. And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.

Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The profile of the students are Asian and Jewish.

Not true.

True at TPMS

My TPMS student is neither Asian nor Jewish.

+1

Neither Asian, nor Jewish, but half European.

Obviously not 100% Asian and Jewish, don't be dense. But overwhelmingly so. Big difference from Eastern where there is a good mix.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child was accepted at one and wait listed at the other. He did well on two parts of the test and not that well on other two parts. Went to an HGC and had Ps and Es grades. Was a kid who would not do well in a non magnet environment.

It's not all about the test scores. I know of kids who scored higher on the test and were not accepted.

It's not all about the test scores, but the test scores seem to be the single most important criterion.

Well, actually, the single most important criterion is the bail-out question. If your kid says on the bail-out question that they don't want to go, they won't get in.

Please elaborate.

There's a question on the test that asks the kid how much the kid wants to go to the middle-school magnet program.