Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 16:49     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Who cares. Our ESOL kids can beat your ESOL kids, and that's all that matters!
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 16:38     Subject: Re:MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ in Fairfax had over 100 NMS.. why so many compared to MoCo magnet school?

4-5 times as many kids at TJ as in the Blair Magnet program.


This is key. Fairfax can serve and challenge more GT students than MoCo. Both force rank, obviously, MoCo just has a teeny yield it can accommodate. Too bad.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 16:24     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
No Blair magnet program is 100% special classes.


You are 100% wrong. I'm another mom with a CAP kid. My CAP kid has always had magnet kids in classes like Honors English, AP English, AP World History and such. And my kid has been in classes with magnet kids in every possible non-STEM subject, like music or art or gym, that a magnet kid might want to explore. There is no such thing as "Magnet English" or "Magnet Government," so the magnet kids have to take these classes with the hoi polloi.

If you really know this little about the Blair magnet program, you have no business opining about the magnet program or any other aspects of Blair.


Hi I'm the PP. I think you may have misread my point -- I'm not the ignorant manget hater.

What I'm saying is that CAP and Math/science magnet kids DO take classes with non-magnet kids, and that there is NO magnet program that has 100% magnet classes.


Hi, yes, I did misread your post! Thanks for a polite correction, so rare here on DCUM!
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 16:22     Subject: Re:MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:TJ in Fairfax had over 100 NMS.. why so many compared to MoCo magnet school?

4-5 times as many kids at TJ as in the Blair Magnet program.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 16:08     Subject: Re:MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:TJ in Fairfax had over 100 NMS.. why so many compared to MoCo magnet school?


TJ is statewide gifted only high school. Blair is one of the magnet in MoCo.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 15:37     Subject: Re:MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:TJ in Fairfax had over 100 NMS.. why so many compared to MoCo magnet school?


I believe this is due to the fact that TJ is so large and is solely a magnet school, unlike the MoCo magnets that are smaller and less centralized in one location.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 15:35     Subject: Re:MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
TJ in Fairfax had over 100 NMS.. why so many compared to MoCo magnet school?
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 14:25     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
No Blair magnet program is 100% special classes.


You are 100% wrong. I'm another mom with a CAP kid. My CAP kid has always had magnet kids in classes like Honors English, AP English, AP World History and such. And my kid has been in classes with magnet kids in every possible non-STEM subject, like music or art or gym, that a magnet kid might want to explore. There is no such thing as "Magnet English" or "Magnet Government," so the magnet kids have to take these classes with the hoi polloi.

If you really know this little about the Blair magnet program, you have no business opining about the magnet program or any other aspects of Blair.


You are proving PP's point, which is that there is no such thing as e.g. Magnet English or CAP Math. The kids in those programs take those classes with the general school population.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 14:22     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
No Blair magnet program is 100% special classes.


You are 100% wrong. I'm another mom with a CAP kid. My CAP kid has always had magnet kids in classes like Honors English, AP English, AP World History and such. And my kid has been in classes with magnet kids in every possible non-STEM subject, like music or art or gym, that a magnet kid might want to explore. There is no such thing as "Magnet English" or "Magnet Government," so the magnet kids have to take these classes with the hoi polloi.

If you really know this little about the Blair magnet program, you have no business opining about the magnet program or any other aspects of Blair.


Hi I'm the PP. I think you may have misread my point -- I'm not the ignorant manget hater.

What I'm saying is that CAP and Math/science magnet kids DO take classes with non-magnet kids, and that there is NO magnet program that has 100% magnet classes.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 14:19     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:
No Blair magnet program is 100% special classes.


You are 100% wrong. I'm another mom with a CAP kid. My CAP kid has always had magnet kids in classes like Honors English, AP English, AP World History and such. And my kid has been in classes with magnet kids in every possible non-STEM subject, like music or art or gym, that a magnet kid might want to explore. There is no such thing as "Magnet English" or "Magnet Government," so the magnet kids have to take these classes with the hoi polloi.

If you really know this little about the Blair magnet program, you have no business opining about the magnet program or any other aspects of Blair.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 13:28     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think that people who spent a lot of money to buy expensive real estate in "better" clusters are frantic to justify it.

If east county schools do well, they have to explain it away by bashing magnets, or talking about how it's a small group of kids.



or vise versa... maybe people have to talk up magnets to keep their schools in the ranking so they can sell houses.


Huh? How would that even work? First, most magnets are open to all MCPS students or at least, all students in a certain large area - so zip codes are irrelevant. Second, magnets are competitive-entry (for the most part), so no one buys a house in a given zip code in order to have their children enrolled in magnets.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 13:18     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think that people who spent a lot of money to buy expensive real estate in "better" clusters are frantic to justify it.

If east county schools do well, they have to explain it away by bashing magnets, or talking about how it's a small group of kids.



or vise versa... maybe people have to talk up magnets to keep their schools in the ranking so they can sell houses.


I'm trying to figure out how this would even work.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 12:50     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:I think that people who spent a lot of money to buy expensive real estate in "better" clusters are frantic to justify it.

If east county schools do well, they have to explain it away by bashing magnets, or talking about how it's a small group of kids.



or vise versa... maybe people have to talk up magnets to keep their schools in the ranking so they can sell houses.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 11:08     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
I think that people who spent a lot of money to buy expensive real estate in "better" clusters are frantic to justify it.

If east county schools do well, they have to explain it away by bashing magnets, or talking about how it's a small group of kids.

Anonymous
Post 09/16/2013 11:02     Subject: MCPS - National Merit Seminfinalists pretty unevenly distributed, don't you think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

If they are going to attibute the success of a child to the school they attend they need be truthful.


So the kids in the Blair magnet are not actually attending Blair?


No actually they are not. That is a whole other thread. It's been a big complaint of their segregation since magnet schools are for the sole purpose of fixing segregation problems.


Another distortion of the facts. For CAP there are 3 magnet classes in an eight period day. The rest of the classes are with the general student body. It's hardly segregated. I am sure the same is true for math/science kids -- they still have to take English, history, PE/electives, etc. They may take a lot of AP classes but that's not segregation.


For CAP the number of CAP classes varies depending on the year. For my CAP sophomore there are four CAP classes out of a nine-period day (CAP students have nine periods unless they are in a study hall). All of his other classes are with the general Blair population.

Blair magnet students have a similar mixed bag of magnet/non-magnet classes.

No magnet or CAP student has 100% program-specific classes.

All attend Montgomery Blair High School. LMAO