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any chance fallsgrove gets rezoned to wootton?

Yes. Exactly as much chance as literally any other scenario.

the reason i ask is that while Wootton is at capacity and RM is over capacity, Fallsgrove is one of the higher SES commujnities that make up RM and I can't imagine that they would take it out of there? What neighborhood would replace Fallsgrove in RM cluster?

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Anonymous wrote:Would there be any likely changes to Wootton before Crown becomes relevant? I've heard rumors about changes such as areas going to NW or QO but assumed none of this could happen until Crown became real.

The times they are a changing...

And the people they are a movin' . . .

any chance fallsgrove gets rezoned to wootton?

Yes. Exactly as much chance as literally any other scenario.

any chance fallsgrove gets rezoned to wootton?

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Or MCPS decided that the only way to increase URM representation was to use "peer cohort", a la Metis report.

Where does the Metis report mention peer cohort? On which pages?

Don't know but it was a stroke of genius to bake the differences in school quality into the criteria. So many parents try to game the system by ensuring their children receive a stronger foundation than other less affluent children that are as or more gifted.

Since when is giving your kids a strong foundation a crime. Look kids, we can afford well balanced nutritional meals, 3 times a day..but not every one can so its a ketchup sandwich for lunch and rice and beans for dinner. I would love to read to you often but some kids parents can not so we must not read more than an occasional treat.

Absolutely no one is saying you should handicap your kids, and attending a high quality middle school is not a punishment. What MCPS has done, however, is acknowledge that most kids will do fine in their home schools, but outliers need something more. That's true of kids who would be outliers at Cabin John and Frost, and kids would would be outliers at Col. Lee and Eastern.

Remember that no school sent zero kids to the middle school magnets. Kids who are otherwise zoned to Frost or whatever are not "locked out" of the TPMS magnet, but they do need to differentiate themselves from the other kids in their cohort. Yes, that makes them extraordinary, but no more extraordinary than the kid who is getting ketchup sandwiches for dinner and differentiates herself from her peers as well.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here- I am confused. Do Cold Spring ES kids go to Frost for middle school?

No, Cabin John.

But some Cold Spring CES students go to Frost.

Anonymous wrote:NP here- I am confused. Do Cold Spring ES kids go to Frost for middle school?

No, Cabin John.

NP here- I am confused. Do Cold Spring ES kids go to Frost for middle school?

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Or MCPS decided that the only way to increase URM representation was to use "peer cohort", a la Metis report.

Where does the Metis report mention peer cohort? On which pages?

Don't know but it was a stroke of genius to bake the differences in school quality into the criteria. So many parents try to game the system by ensuring their children receive a stronger foundation than other less affluent children that are as or more gifted.

lol.. "stroke of genius..".. the Metis report recommended it...

Recommendation 3a: Implement modifications to the selection process used for academically competitive programs in MCPS, comprising elementary centers for highly
gifted students and secondary magnet programs, to focus these programs on selecting equitably from among those applicants that demonstrate a capacity to thrive in the
program, that include use of non-cognitive criteria, group-specific norms that benchmark student performance against school peers with comparable backgrounds,
and/or a process that offers automatic admissions to the programs for students in the top 5-10% of sending elementary or middle schools in the district.

Which part are you complaining about, here? This? "group-specific norms that benchmark student performance against school peers with comparable backgrounds" Why is that discriminatory?

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Anonymous wrote:
Or MCPS decided that the only way to increase URM representation was to use "peer cohort", a la Metis report.

Where does the Metis report mention peer cohort? On which pages?

Don't know but it was a stroke of genius to bake the differences in school quality into the criteria. So many parents try to game the system by ensuring their children receive a stronger foundation than other less affluent children that are as or more gifted.

Since when is giving your kids a strong foundation a crime. Look kids, we can afford well balanced nutritional meals, 3 times a day..but not every one can so its a ketchup sandwich for lunch and rice and beans for dinner. I would love to read to you often but some kids parents can not so we must not read more than an occasional treat.

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Anonymous wrote:
Or MCPS decided that the only way to increase URM representation was to use "peer cohort", a la Metis report.

Where does the Metis report mention peer cohort? On which pages?

Don't know but it was a stroke of genius to bake the differences in school quality into the criteria. So many parents try to game the system by ensuring their children receive a stronger foundation than other less affluent children that are as or more gifted.

I'll give you a hint: it doesn't mention it anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Or MCPS decided that the only way to increase URM representation was to use "peer cohort", a la Metis report.

Where does the Metis report mention peer cohort? On which pages?

Don't know but it was a stroke of genius to bake the differences in school quality into the criteria. So many parents try to game the system by ensuring their children receive a stronger foundation than other less affluent children that are as or more gifted.

lol.. "stroke of genius..".. the Metis report recommended it...

Recommendation 3a: Implement modifications to the selection process used for academically competitive programs in MCPS, comprising elementary centers for highly
gifted students and secondary magnet programs, to focus these programs on selecting equitably from among those applicants that demonstrate a capacity to thrive in the
program, that include use of non-cognitive criteria, group-specific norms that benchmark student performance against school peers with comparable backgrounds,
and/or a process that offers automatic admissions to the programs for students in the top 5-10% of sending elementary or middle schools in the district.

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Anonymous wrote:
Or MCPS decided that the only way to increase URM representation was to use "peer cohort", a la Metis report.

Where does the Metis report mention peer cohort? On which pages?

Don't know but it was a stroke of genius to bake the differences in school quality into the criteria. So many parents try to game the system by ensuring their children receive a stronger foundation than other less affluent children that are as or more gifted.

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Or MCPS decided that the only way to increase URM representation was to use "peer cohort", a la Metis report.

Where does the Metis report mention peer cohort? On which pages?

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There's that Cold Spring ES conspiracy theory again.

I wouldn't be smug considering the federal government is investigating MCPS for discrimination against Asian American students. The preliminary complaints and evidence was enough to make this a class action investigation which means it is SERIOUS.

Or it means the Department of Education is investigating some Asian American parents' claims that MCPS discriminated against their children, because it suits Betsy De Vos's agenda.

That's certainly the direction I lean in.

Or MCPS decided that the only way to increase URM representation was to use "peer cohort", a la Metis report.