Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 19:48     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just call central they will tell you your child’s Localized Norm. I promise they did not make a mistake, you child just isn’t the strongest amongst their peers in your school.


For those who have contacted the central office, could you please provide the MAP score along with its corresponding localized norm?


OP will never admit that their kid didn’t get in here. Likely is licking their wounds at home after finding out the details and wondering how to tell their friends on Facebook that they raged to about how MCPS screwed up that their kid isn’t as exceptional as they thought
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 19:45     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As predicted OP didn’t come and update once they found out that there was no mistake. Quelle surprise!


Who are you thr fbi? How do you know they found out? Did the person at CO get back to them if they couldn't be reached? Has OP reached whomever is responsible at the school? Do you know??


It’s a quick phone call to central office and they can usually tell you on the spot and easily work out the difference between the parents expectations and the reality of the criteria. They are very helpful.


Ok Randy


Or is it Lynn?
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 19:45     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As predicted OP didn’t come and update once they found out that there was no mistake. Quelle surprise!


Who are you thr fbi? How do you know they found out? Did the person at CO get back to them if they couldn't be reached? Has OP reached whomever is responsible at the school? Do you know??


It’s a quick phone call to central office and they can usually tell you on the spot and easily work out the difference between the parents expectations and the reality of the criteria. They are very helpful.


Ok Randy


Who is Randy?
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 19:45     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just call central they will tell you your child’s Localized Norm. I promise they did not make a mistake, you child just isn’t the strongest amongst their peers in your school.


For those who have contacted the central office, could you please provide the MAP score along with its corresponding localized norm?


Why should anyone have to call Central office? What a time waste for EVERYONE who is involved!
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 19:40     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As predicted OP didn’t come and update once they found out that there was no mistake. Quelle surprise!


Who are you thr fbi? How do you know they found out? Did the person at CO get back to them if they couldn't be reached? Has OP reached whomever is responsible at the school? Do you know??


It’s a quick phone call to central office and they can usually tell you on the spot and easily work out the difference between the parents expectations and the reality of the criteria. They are very helpful.


Ok Randy
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 19:37     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:Just call central they will tell you your child’s Localized Norm. I promise they did not make a mistake, you child just isn’t the strongest amongst their peers in your school.


For those who have contacted the central office, could you please provide the MAP score along with its corresponding localized norm?
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 19:03     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just call central they will tell you your child’s Localized Norm. I promise they did not make a mistake, you child just isn’t the strongest amongst their peers in your school.


I think one of the unintentional side effects of the new system is an arms race at the highest income schools. Once the MCCPTA Gifted Ed Committee got MCPS to admit to the numbers for whatever year it was, that set a new benchmark for folks to prep against, which almost certainly moved the bar upward.


It certainly is a side-effect of using a more gameable metric as a proxy for ability.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 18:57     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:Just call central they will tell you your child’s Localized Norm. I promise they did not make a mistake, you child just isn’t the strongest amongst their peers in your school.


I think one of the unintentional side effects of the new system is an arms race at the highest income schools. Once the MCCPTA Gifted Ed Committee got MCPS to admit to the numbers for whatever year it was, that set a new benchmark for folks to prep against, which almost certainly moved the bar upward.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 18:28     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Just call central they will tell you your child’s Localized Norm. I promise they did not make a mistake, you child just isn’t the strongest amongst their peers in your school.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 17:04     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:How can one find out the locally normed scores?


Calling if you are a parent of a kid in pool. MPIIA request otherwise
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 16:47     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
How can one find out the locally normed scores?
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 16:42     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As predicted OP didn’t come and update once they found out that there was no mistake. Quelle surprise!


Who are you thr fbi? How do you know they found out? Did the person at CO get back to them if they couldn't be reached? Has OP reached whomever is responsible at the school? Do you know??


It’s a quick phone call to central office and they can usually tell you on the spot and easily work out the difference between the parents expectations and the reality of the criteria. They are very helpful.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 16:40     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:As predicted OP didn’t come and update once they found out that there was no mistake. Quelle surprise!


Who are you thr fbi? How do you know they found out? Did the person at CO get back to them if they couldn't be reached? Has OP reached whomever is responsible at the school? Do you know??
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 16:31     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
As predicted OP didn’t come and update once they found out that there was no mistake. Quelle surprise!
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 13:28     Subject: Error in my child’s enrichment criteria for magnet consideration. What can be done?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The peer cohort argument is disingenuous considering Magnets were designed to import a better cohort into schools with economically slipping demographics? To say now these studious upper SES kids are fine in their home school because all the kids care about school is redundant. They always have been this isn’t news, the question is what happens when those kids don’t prop up the needy schools test scores and external people’s perception of said schools and opportunities? Does the gap between the perception of the (have and the have nots) cause the SES divide in real estate selection to continue cement in. I guess some families might factor poorer schools being an easier track to academic spotlights but I doubt it.


Right. People need to realize that magnets are NOT about providing gifted students the most opportunity. It's about importing better academic outcomes and test schools for low-to-mid performing schools.


It's both actually. Or at least it was originated as both. The decision to have magnets at all is meant to be about meeting the needs of students who truly learned differently and whose needs could not be met alongside their peers. The choice to place those magnets in specific schools was about combating white flight.

Overtime, the first goal slipped as it became more about high performers and kids who were well coached and less about kids who genuinely learned differently.