Anonymous
03/18/2023 20:58
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MathCounts came up once or twice in this thread. At the state competition today, Burleigh Manor took first, Takoma Park second, Herbert Hoover third. Frost came 6th. The top four finishers who will go to the nationals attend Burleigh Manor, Takoma Park and Dumbarton MS. TP also had three of the top four finishers in the countdown round. TP obviously prepares the kids well for these contests. But because so much of doing well depends on tutoring, coaching, etc., it’s a pretty meaningless signal. But winning does come with bragging rights!
TP gets the best science and math teachers and the top kids in the county of 70,000 middle schoolers and still can’t win first in these events. And you know all the TP kids have tutors too. Their whole lives are math/science.
I have a kid in the TP magnet. He’s never had a tutor. And as far as he knows non of his classmates have either. Speaking in general not about the team.
Anonymous
03/18/2023 20:39
Subject: Re:Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some of the TP kids seemed too tense to me at the event. Looking at this board, no wonder where it is trickling down from.
What do you mean by that?
Some people take these competitions out of proportion.
Anonymous
03/18/2023 20:06
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Check out the mathcounts state qualifier rank, you'll know the quality of this year's TPMS students. We are just low-key and don't want to brag.
What were the schools of the top MathCounts students?
FYI, among the top 20 qualifiers, 10 are from TPMS, 3 from Roberto Clemente, 3 from RF, 2 from Hoover, 1 from CJ and 1 from Kingsview. Among the top 10, 5 are from TPMS, 0 from RF. In case someone doesn't know, each MS can send no more than 12 players. That says about the quality of the 8th grader of TPMS.
What about the state top performers?
#1 was from Burleigh Manor, #2 and #3 from TP, #4 from Dumbarton
TP had 5 in top 20, had #1, #2, and #4 in the CountDown Round
Anonymous
03/18/2023 20:01
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Check out the mathcounts state qualifier rank, you'll know the quality of this year's TPMS students. We are just low-key and don't want to brag.
What were the schools of the top MathCounts students?
FYI, among the top 20 qualifiers, 10 are from TPMS, 3 from Roberto Clemente, 3 from RF, 2 from Hoover, 1 from CJ and 1 from Kingsview. Among the top 10, 5 are from TPMS, 0 from RF. In case someone doesn't know, each MS can send no more than 12 players. That says about the quality of the 8th grader of TPMS.
What about the state top performers?
Anonymous
03/18/2023 19:42
Subject: Re:Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Some of the TP kids seemed too tense to me at the event. Looking at this board, no wonder where it is trickling down from.
What do you mean by that?
Anonymous
03/18/2023 19:33
Subject: Re:Frost wins Science Bowl
Some of the TP kids seemed too tense to me at the event. Looking at this board, no wonder where it is trickling down from.
Anonymous
03/18/2023 19:18
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:MathCounts came up once or twice in this thread. At the state competition today, Burleigh Manor took first, Takoma Park second, Herbert Hoover third. Frost came 6th. The top four finishers who will go to the nationals attend Burleigh Manor, Takoma Park and Dumbarton MS. TP also had three of the top four finishers in the countdown round. TP obviously prepares the kids well for these contests. But because so much of doing well depends on tutoring, coaching, etc., it’s a pretty meaningless signal. But winning does come with bragging rights!
2nd and 3rd were from TP, CountDown Finals was TP vs TP
Anonymous
03/18/2023 19:08
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:MathCounts came up once or twice in this thread. At the state competition today, Burleigh Manor took first, Takoma Park second, Herbert Hoover third. Frost came 6th. The top four finishers who will go to the nationals attend Burleigh Manor, Takoma Park and Dumbarton MS. TP also had three of the top four finishers in the countdown round. TP obviously prepares the kids well for these contests. But because so much of doing well depends on tutoring, coaching, etc., it’s a pretty meaningless signal. But winning does come with bragging rights!
TP gets the best science and math teachers and the top kids in the county of 70,000 middle schoolers and still can’t win first in these events. And you know all the TP kids have tutors too. Their whole lives are math/science.
Anonymous
03/18/2023 19:04
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This makes me dread DC going to Blair. Are all the parents like this?
I personally think they dismantle Blair and keep all the uber-smart kids in their home schools where they can still flourish.
Sure at Frost, there's clearly a sizable cohort of high-achievers, so the magnet doesn't matter, but at many schools, that's not the case. The magnets provide a strong cohort for many kids who don't happen to live in the bounds of such a school. Frost's success shows that the county's policy to focus on outliers is working since these kids are doing great at their home school.
Agree schools like Frost don't need the magnet. This also frees up more seats for others.
It's clear from Frost's victories with the Science Bowl that the county made a good choice by keeping this sufficiently large high-achieving cohort together rather than sending many to the magnet.
The selection changes seem to be working well. Maybe they can keep them together at Wootton too in order to free up more space @Blair.
I think that's a great idea.
First they take magnet opportunity away then they will rezone Wootton kids to crown. These kids are just not going to get the education they need.
The only section going to Crown is the little blip of Washingtonian that somehow goes to Fallsmead/Frost/Wootton but will be walking distance to Crown. Wootton is not over capacity and long term projections don't have it over capacity. So many more high schools are over capacity that will fill up Crown.
You don’t know that. They could rezone some from QO to Wootton and some from Wootton to crown. Diversity bus is on the way.
MCPS doesn’t do diversity buses anymore. They have such a shortage on bus and bus drivers that they have focused walking as number 1 in the last 5 years of rezoning.
Funny thing is Wootton has walkers that are bused to RM so I can see if they move any others to Crown and lower capacity, they would bring those walkers back to Wootton instead of busing QO kids 20min to a high school. RM is way over capacity and getting worse.
Anonymous
03/18/2023 18:57
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:MathCounts came up once or twice in this thread. At the state competition today, Burleigh Manor took first, Takoma Park second, Herbert Hoover third. Frost came 6th. The top four finishers who will go to the nationals attend Burleigh Manor, Takoma Park and Dumbarton MS. TP also had three of the top four finishers in the countdown round. TP obviously prepares the kids well for these contests. But because so much of doing well depends on tutoring, coaching, etc., it’s a pretty meaningless signal. But winning does come with bragging rights!
Seems meaningful to me! Congratulations TPMS math team!
Anonymous
03/18/2023 18:56
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
MathCounts came up once or twice in this thread. At the state competition today, Burleigh Manor took first, Takoma Park second, Herbert Hoover third. Frost came 6th. The top four finishers who will go to the nationals attend Burleigh Manor, Takoma Park and Dumbarton MS. TP also had three of the top four finishers in the countdown round. TP obviously prepares the kids well for these contests. But because so much of doing well depends on tutoring, coaching, etc., it’s a pretty meaningless signal. But winning does come with bragging rights!
Anonymous
03/17/2023 10:13
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This makes me dread DC going to Blair. Are all the parents like this?
I personally think they dismantle Blair and keep all the uber-smart kids in their home schools where they can still flourish.
Sure at Frost, there's clearly a sizable cohort of high-achievers, so the magnet doesn't matter, but at many schools, that's not the case. The magnets provide a strong cohort for many kids who don't happen to live in the bounds of such a school. Frost's success shows that the county's policy to focus on outliers is working since these kids are doing great at their home school.
Agree schools like Frost don't need the magnet. This also frees up more seats for others.
It's clear from Frost's victories with the Science Bowl that the county made a good choice by keeping this sufficiently large high-achieving cohort together rather than sending many to the magnet.
The selection changes seem to be working well. Maybe they can keep them together at Wootton too in order to free up more space @Blair.
I think that's a great idea.
First they take magnet opportunity away then they will rezone Wootton kids to crown. These kids are just not going to get the education they need.
The only section going to Crown is the little blip of Washingtonian that somehow goes to Fallsmead/Frost/Wootton but will be walking distance to Crown. Wootton is not over capacity and long term projections don't have it over capacity. So many more high schools are over capacity that will fill up Crown.
You don’t know that. They could rezone some from QO to Wootton and some from Wootton to crown. Diversity bus is on the way.
Don't know anything about that, but Wootton is in the very northern most corner of its own boundary so most of the students assigned to it are closer to another HS. I get that there may not be a better option but the map looks suboptimal.
Anonymous
03/17/2023 09:26
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This makes me dread DC going to Blair. Are all the parents like this?
I personally think they dismantle Blair and keep all the uber-smart kids in their home schools where they can still flourish.
Sure at Frost, there's clearly a sizable cohort of high-achievers, so the magnet doesn't matter, but at many schools, that's not the case. The magnets provide a strong cohort for many kids who don't happen to live in the bounds of such a school. Frost's success shows that the county's policy to focus on outliers is working since these kids are doing great at their home school.
Agree schools like Frost don't need the magnet. This also frees up more seats for others.
It's clear from Frost's victories with the Science Bowl that the county made a good choice by keeping this sufficiently large high-achieving cohort together rather than sending many to the magnet.
The selection changes seem to be working well. Maybe they can keep them together at Wootton too in order to free up more space @Blair.
I think that's a great idea.
First they take magnet opportunity away then they will rezone Wootton kids to crown. These kids are just not going to get the education they need.
The only section going to Crown is the little blip of Washingtonian that somehow goes to Fallsmead/Frost/Wootton but will be walking distance to Crown. Wootton is not over capacity and long term projections don't have it over capacity. So many more high schools are over capacity that will fill up Crown.
You don’t know that. They could rezone some from QO to Wootton and some from Wootton to crown. Diversity bus is on the way.
Anonymous
03/17/2023 09:06
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This makes me dread DC going to Blair. Are all the parents like this?
I personally think they dismantle Blair and keep all the uber-smart kids in their home schools where they can still flourish.
Sure at Frost, there's clearly a sizable cohort of high-achievers, so the magnet doesn't matter, but at many schools, that's not the case. The magnets provide a strong cohort for many kids who don't happen to live in the bounds of such a school. Frost's success shows that the county's policy to focus on outliers is working since these kids are doing great at their home school.
Agree schools like Frost don't need the magnet. This also frees up more seats for others.
It's clear from Frost's victories with the Science Bowl that the county made a good choice by keeping this sufficiently large high-achieving cohort together rather than sending many to the magnet.
The selection changes seem to be working well. Maybe they can keep them together at Wootton too in order to free up more space @Blair.
I think that's a great idea.
First they take magnet opportunity away then they will rezone Wootton kids to crown. These kids are just not going to get the education they need.
The only section going to Crown is the little blip of Washingtonian that somehow goes to Fallsmead/Frost/Wootton but will be walking distance to Crown. Wootton is not over capacity and long term projections don't have it over capacity. So many more high schools are over capacity that will fill up Crown.
Anonymous
03/17/2023 08:57
Subject: Frost wins Science Bowl
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I rather my kid go to a non magnet school that is competitive than a crap school that bussed in smart kids that stick their nose up at the rest of the school.
I would rather my kid is with magnet students and not normies. Sorry. The company sucks in non-magnet schools and in non-magnet programs.
Troll?