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Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

Duh! All of the enrichment, acceleration at home is continuing to happen. It is the schools that are not doing the bare minimum for the magnet students. BTW - once you are blessed to have an intelligent and gifted child, parents don't sit on their lazy asses and depend entirely on school (unless the parents are poor, neglectful or not collage educated) for their education. Why do you think that the achievement gap is now as wide as the grand canyon?

Obviously standards have fallen drastically without a hybrid option for even magnet parents to be concerned. These parents should continue to remain vocal about these issues because they are the best advocates for all students. Otherwise who do you think will advocate? Parents of the bottom of the heap students?

I feel bad that teachers have to deal with crazy parents. No wonder teachers are quitting. If your child is such a genius, tell them to self study. Khan Academy now covers many AP courses. Many universities have lectures online that are easy to find using a simple Google search. My guess is that your kid is happy to chill in quarantine but you are freaking out

I don't think the parent complaining about the magnet program understands what is happening at MCPS. The "magnet" isn't special anymore. It's been watered down since they went lottery. The advice you're getting sounds like typical MCPS teacher rebuttal (if the kid is so smart they'll teach themselves, kind of thing). In fact, I just read a comment on the magnet lottery thread saying how there are no issues and the 85-percentiles are doing great in the magnet program, so I'm sure that's what's being reported up the chain. I wouldn't expect a lot of sympathy from MCPS and I'd be careful about complaining. Places like TPES will make life hell for the kids who's parents complain.

My advice to you is tutoring. If you read through some of the other comments, it's the only way the truly gifted are surviving right now. Yes, this is making the kids who do this highly competitive in college admissions while the others flounder, but this is the new reality. Not sure what else to tell you. Sorry.

Weird I had just read about how MCPS had closed the gap and from what I can tell kids are breaking new records with the grand daddy of all standardized tests, the SAT. I just don't get all this doom and gloom.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Our high school is not doing surveillance testing. I couldn’t even get my child tested at school after he had a close contact (several classes of contact) with a friend who had COVID.

You can get your child tested. It is your responsibility not the schools.

But will agree schools should do way more testing to keep the students and staff safe.

Again, this is a parenting responsibility. Schools are providing it as a courtesy but they are not a medical clinic. Stop advocating your parental rights to the school and test your kids regularly.

If you made the choice to go in person, plan on your kids getting sick or being in quarantine. They were very upfront over this.

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Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

Duh! All of the enrichment, acceleration at home is continuing to happen. It is the schools that are not doing the bare minimum for the magnet students. BTW - once you are blessed to have an intelligent and gifted child, parents don't sit on their lazy asses and depend entirely on school (unless the parents are poor, neglectful or not collage educated) for their education. Why do you think that the achievement gap is now as wide as the grand canyon?

Obviously standards have fallen drastically without a hybrid option for even magnet parents to be concerned. These parents should continue to remain vocal about these issues because they are the best advocates for all students. Otherwise who do you think will advocate? Parents of the bottom of the heap students?

I feel bad that teachers have to deal with crazy parents. No wonder teachers are quitting. If your child is such a genius, tell them to self study. Khan Academy now covers many AP courses. Many universities have lectures online that are easy to find using a simple Google search. My guess is that your kid is happy to chill in quarantine but you are freaking out

I don't think the parent complaining about the magnet program understands what is happening at MCPS. The "magnet" isn't special anymore. It's been watered down since they went lottery. The advice you're getting sounds like typical MCPS teacher rebuttal (if the kid is so smart they'll teach themselves, kind of thing). In fact, I just read a comment on the magnet lottery thread saying how there are no issues and the 85-percentiles are doing great in the magnet program, so I'm sure that's what's being reported up the chain. I wouldn't expect a lot of sympathy from MCPS and I'd be careful about complaining. Places like TPES will make life hell for the kids who's parents complain.

My advice to you is tutoring. If you read through some of the other comments, it's the only way the truly gifted are surviving right now. Yes, this is making the kids who do this highly competitive in college admissions while the others flounder, but this is the new reality. Not sure what else to tell you. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

Duh! All of the enrichment, acceleration at home is continuing to happen. It is the schools that are not doing the bare minimum for the magnet students. BTW - once you are blessed to have an intelligent and gifted child, parents don't sit on their lazy asses and depend entirely on school (unless the parents are poor, neglectful or not collage educated) for their education. Why do you think that the achievement gap is now as wide as the grand canyon?

Obviously standards have fallen drastically without a hybrid option for even magnet parents to be concerned. These parents should continue to remain vocal about these issues because they are the best advocates for all students. Otherwise who do you think will advocate? Parents of the bottom of the heap students?

I feel bad that teachers have to deal with crazy parents. No wonder teachers are quitting. If your child is such a genius, tell them to self study. Khan Academy now covers many AP courses. Many universities have lectures online that are easy to find using a simple Google search. My guess is that your kid is happy to chill in quarantine but you are freaking out

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Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

Duh! All of the enrichment, acceleration at home is continuing to happen. It is the schools that are not doing the bare minimum for the magnet students. BTW - once you are blessed to have an intelligent and gifted child, parents don't sit on their lazy asses and depend entirely on school (unless the parents are poor, neglectful or not collage educated) for their education. Why do you think that the achievement gap is now as wide as the grand canyon?

Obviously standards have fallen drastically without a hybrid option for even magnet parents to be concerned. These parents should continue to remain vocal about these issues because they are the best advocates for all students. Otherwise who do you think will advocate? Parents of the bottom of the heap students?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

Duh! All of the enrichment, acceleration at home is continuing to happen. It is the schools that are not doing the bare minimum for the magnet students. BTW - once you are blessed to have an intelligent and gifted child, parents don't sit on their lazy asses and depend entirely on school (unless the parents are poor, neglectful or not collage educated) for their education. Why do you think that the achievement gap is now as wide as the grand canyon?

Obviously standards have fallen drastically without a hybrid option for even magnet parents to be concerned. These parents should continue to remain vocal about these issues because they are the best advocates for all students. Otherwise who do you think will advocate? Parents of the bottom of the heap students?

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Our high school is not doing surveillance testing. I couldn’t even get my child tested at school after he had a close contact (several classes of contact) with a friend who had COVID.

You can get your child tested. It is your responsibility not the schools.

But will agree schools should do way more testing to keep the students and staff safe.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Our school did a great job ensuring DC kept up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

Duh! All of the enrichment, acceleration at home is continuing to happen. It is the schools that are not doing the bare minimum for the magnet students. BTW - once you are blessed to have an intelligent and gifted child, parents don't sit on their lazy asses and depend entirely on school (unless the parents are poor, neglectful or not collage educated) for their education. Why do you think that the achievement gap is now as wide as the grand canyon?

Obviously standards have fallen drastically without a hybrid option for even magnet parents to be concerned. These parents should continue to remain vocal about these issues because they are the best advocates for all students. Otherwise who do you think will advocate? Parents of the bottom of the heap students?

Anonymous wrote:To the poor parent complaining about their magnet program-
it’s winter break. If it’s so bad, get offline and go find enriching activities for your kid.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

PP is a troll and doesn’t actually know.

HS teacher had to identify one of their planning periods to be available on zoom for any quarantined students. Students in quarantine are sent an email with the zoom links and period to see each teacher. Teachers are on zoom for that period in case a student shows up. I’ve had about half of my ~students who’ve been in quarantine over the past two months actually show up a couple of times.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Are you asking about kids who are isolating or quarantining?

A kid who is quaranting is doing so because they refused to vaccinate. That's the natural consequence. The school system owes them nothing.

If a student is isolating, then they should get some kind of support, like clarity about assignments. It's no different than kids who were out for medical reasons prior to covid.

Not all students in mcps are eligible for vaccination. And some haven’t had a chance to get second shots yet.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Our high school is not doing surveillance testing. I couldn’t even get my child tested at school after he had a close contact (several classes of contact) with a friend who had COVID.

You can get your child tested. It is your responsibility not the schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Are you asking about kids who are isolating or quarantining?

A kid who is quaranting is doing so because they refused to vaccinate. That's the natural consequence. The school system owes them nothing.

If a student is isolating, then they should get some kind of support, like clarity about assignments. It's no different than kids who were out for medical reasons prior to covid.

Not all students in mcps are eligible for vaccination. And some haven’t had a chance to get second shots yet.