Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Naivete is bliss. It's not the recent immigrants and their children who are the MCPS leadership and teachers in our schools. At least in the schools my kids attend the leadership and teachers do not reflect the race and ethnicity of the students being led and taught. There is a tremendous lag. The traditional leadership of MCPS and her schools are run still run by the old generation. They teach an increasing multi-cultural and diverse student body many of whom out perform their own children and thus get the "entitled" spoils: prizes, awards, magnet slots, Ivy slots and other prize college admissions ...

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Your post doesn't make a whole lot of sense, really.

Let's try a different approach. In my children's MCPS school (upper west county) the leadership and teachers do not reflect the race and ethnicity of the students they lead and teach. Most of the students (recent immigrant generation) are outperforming most of the student body. If the MCPS leadership and teachers reflected the backgrounds of these high performers (witness the increasing diversity in Montgomery County) it would be a snowy day in hell before that group would prohibit students with subject mastery from advancing. The advocates of this policy, within MCPS, are the "entitled" or "establishment" group with kids losing out (or missing out on customary entitlements) to these high performers (There is a reason TJ magnet, Blair magnet Takoma Park magnet and just about any magnet school in the US are increasingly populated with children not of the traditional educational establishment). This observation worries the establishment and their children. This regressive policy has absolutely nothing to do with the new common core standards and everything to do with trying to close this glaring emerging gap. It is a desperate attempt to try to hold kids back so they don't get to far ahead.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Naivete is bliss. It's not the recent immigrants and their children who are the MCPS leadership and teachers in our schools. At least in the schools my kids attend the leadership and teachers do not reflect the race and ethnicity of the students being led and taught. There is a tremendous lag. The traditional leadership of MCPS and her schools are run still run by the old generation. They teach an increasing multi-cultural and diverse student body many of whom out perform their own children and thus get the "entitled" spoils: prizes, awards, magnet slots, Ivy slots and other prize college admissions ...

+100000


Your post doesn't make a whole lot of sense, really.

Let's try a different approach. In my children's MCPS school (upper west county) the leadership and teachers do not reflect the race and ethnicity of the students they lead and teach. Most of the students (recent immigrant generation) are outperforming most of the student body. If the MCPS leadership and teachers reflected the backgrounds of these high performers (witness the increasing diversity in Montgomery County) it would be a snowy day in hell before that group would prohibit students with subject mastery from advancing. The advocates of this policy, within MCPS, are the "entitled" or "establishment" group with kids losing out (or missing out on customary entitlements) to these high performers (There is a reason TJ magnet, Blair magnet Takoma Park magnet and just about any magnet school in the US are increasingly populated with children not of the traditional educational establishment). This observation worries the establishment and their children. This regressive policy has absolutely nothing to do with the new common core standards and everything to do with trying to close this glaring emerging gap. It is a desperate attempt to try to hold kids back so they don't get to far ahead.

This is utterly ridiculous. Why would they want to hold back high performers who make the school system as a whole look better.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Naivete is bliss. It's not the recent immigrants and their children who are the MCPS leadership and teachers in our schools. At least in the schools my kids attend the leadership and teachers do not reflect the race and ethnicity of the students being led and taught. There is a tremendous lag. The traditional leadership of MCPS and her schools are run still run by the old generation. They teach an increasing multi-cultural and diverse student body many of whom out perform their own children and thus get the "entitled" spoils: prizes, awards, magnet slots, Ivy slots and other prize college admissions ...

+100000


Your post doesn't make a whole lot of sense, really.

Let's try a different approach. In my children's MCPS school (upper west county) the leadership and teachers do not reflect the race and ethnicity of the students they lead and teach. Most of the students (recent immigrant generation) are outperforming most of the student body. If the MCPS leadership and teachers reflected the backgrounds of these high performers (witness the increasing diversity in Montgomery County) it would be a snowy day in hell before that group would prohibit students with subject mastery from advancing. The advocates of this policy, within MCPS, are the "entitled" or "establishment" group with kids losing out (or missing out on customary entitlements) to these high performers (There is a reason TJ magnet, Blair magnet Takoma Park magnet and just about any magnet school in the US are increasingly populated with children not of the traditional educational establishment). This observation worries the establishment and their children. This regressive policy has absolutely nothing to do with the new common core standards and everything to do with trying to close this glaring emerging gap. It is a desperate attempt to try to hold kids back so they don't get to far ahead.

But, if you hate it for your kid, it's still here to stay. So, it comes down to this. You can accept it. You can hate it but subject your kids to it and spend years complaining. You can find an alternative to MOCOPS for your kids.

I do agree that education policy makers are not interested in gifted kids, but I don't think they are trying to put down any particular ethnic group. The fact is that schools are now judged on closing the achievement gap and also having as many kids as possible meet some minimum education level. Spending resources to optimize the well prepared kids hurts the achievement gap because it raises the bar needed to close the gap.

No one so far has talked about "gifted" kids. Since I do not know wbat the hell you mean by this term I will revert back to the term high performing kids. You are correct MCPS is not interested in high performing kids because these children are largely not theirs. These kids are largely not the children of MCPS establishment or teachers. This observation gets to the core motive of the policy; a policy with little financial impact short of musical chairs. If MCPS embraced the diversity of this County such policy would never have seen the light of day. If the locals were the victims of this policy it would never have seen the light of day. Issuing an edict to prevent able and high performing children to advance after subject mastery in math has nothing to do with the new common core standards but everything to do with the locals and the establishment trying desperately to keep high performing children of immigrants in their sights. And of course the MCPS educational establishment and locals are going to disagree. They are the only "beneficiaries" of such a policy.