7/24 BOE meeting thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are they planning to offer buses if every school is a magnet/focus? I am so confused. There will be children from every neighborhood going to 5 different schools. DCC is already such a draining program as far as transportation and now we are making that countywide? I hate this plan.

I think students will be mostly begin attending their home schools, unless they are in the catchment for high schools that are the lowest performing. Those are the students that will be looking for school choices elsewhere...just like now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why, why, why can't we just work on 26 strong high schools that all offer a variety of leveled work? Why can't all students just go to their zoned school? What if we used all of this money from their "Research," buses, program procurement etc, to add more teachers to the county and reduce the size of classes? Why does everyone need a program?

+1. We should be strengthening hone schools, not expanding choice programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm highly skeptical that MCPS can serve kids grandfathered into the existing countywide and consortia program models AND simultaneously stand up and transition into the regional program models.

While it sounds nice, that would require a level of planning, coordination and competence from MCPS that I have never seen before.

+1. My rising 8th grader will not be applying anywhere for this reason.