10/16 Board of Ed meeting

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Anonymous wrote:What are the program groupings for region 1?

Brand new and not up online yet. The changes I remember is that they are sending the criteria-based humanities program from BCC (bad) to Whitman (much worse), and that they are letting Einstein keep only the music part of the performing arts magnet (theater and dance at Northwood.)

Einstein also has medical science and healthcare

There’s no interest at Einstein to hold that magnet!

Speak for yourself. My kids would love that and as a parent of kids inbounds for Einstein, I think it’s a great switch!

That’s great for YOUR kid but majority of Einstein students are into the arts. Almost 700 students are enrolled into The Visual and Performing Arts Academy. A medical program will not survive there.

I'm curious how many of those 700 are from our of boundary? I'm not a huge fan of MCPS determining what kids are interested in based on where they live

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Anonymous wrote:It is not likely that many URM would apply to go to BCC iB. This would make BCC less diverse.

They should put iB, SMCS, and Humanities in the high URM schools.

Yes! High URM and high FARMS. Good on Laura Stewart for raising it.

This ON TOP OFF creating a disproportionate "set-aside" number of seats for the host school. So if you attend BCC, your chances of admittance to the IB magnet are TWICE what they would be if you attended another of the 4 schools in the region. Same goes for humanities and Whitman and STEM and Blair. It's like this is what you'd come up with if you think Ivy legacy admissions and preference for squash players makes sense.

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MCPS does not have enough data to learn from.

They need to get more data by providing meaningful in-person opportunities for feedback from the community. Such as town halls (good suggestion from Stewart). Visit every MS and HS PTA, hold in-person meetings at every cluster in which there is back and forth.

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I can't believe they are literally naming their upcoming engagement as "information sessions" yet pretending they collect feedback at them, and the board seems to be buying it.

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Wow. Take a look at the sample model budget. It is truly a money pit.

A much better solution that would not be a bottomless money pit is to just start adding more programs in high-demand areas.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the program groupings for region 1?

Brand new and not up online yet. The changes I remember is that they are sending the criteria-based humanities program from BCC (bad) to Whitman (much worse), and that they are letting Einstein keep only the music part of the performing arts magnet (theater and dance at Northwood.)

Einstein also has medical science and healthcare

There’s no interest at Einstein to hold that magnet!

Speak for yourself. My kids would love that and as a parent of kids inbounds for Einstein, I think it’s a great switch!

That’s great for YOUR kid but majority of Einstein students are into the arts. Almost 700 students are enrolled into The Visual and Performing Arts Academy. A medical program will not survive there.

I'm curious how many of those 700 are from our of boundary? I'm not a huge fan of MCPS determining what kids are interested in based on where they live

They should make their decision based on student interest. If Einstein’s VAPA program is truly that large, it would be wiser not to interfere with it, but to build upon its success.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Take a look at the sample model budget. It is truly a money pit.

A much better solution that would not be a bottomless money pit is to just start adding more programs in high-demand areas.

And it includes zero additional teachers. Just a program coordinator at each school.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe they are literally naming their upcoming engagement as "information sessions" yet pretending they collect feedback at them, and the board seems to be buying it.

I'm very disappointed to the board reaction today. BOE doesn't know how to express criticism at all, or they truly love this model whole heartedly. I like county council meeting much better.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe they are literally naming their upcoming engagement as "information sessions" yet pretending they collect feedback at them, and the board seems to be buying it.

I'm very disappointed to the board reaction today. BOE doesn't know how to express criticism at all, or they truly love this model whole heartedly. I like county council meeting much better.

Yeah. Laura Stewart and the SMOB were the only ones I noticed showing any backbone, and not vene that much from them.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the program groupings for region 1?

Brand new and not up online yet. The changes I remember is that they are sending the criteria-based humanities program from BCC (bad) to Whitman (much worse), and that they are letting Einstein keep only the music part of the performing arts magnet (theater and dance at Northwood.)

Einstein also has medical science and healthcare

There’s no interest at Einstein to hold that magnet!

Speak for yourself. My kids would love that and as a parent of kids inbounds for Einstein, I think it’s a great switch!

That’s great for YOUR kid but majority of Einstein students are into the arts. Almost 700 students are enrolled into The Visual and Performing Arts Academy. A medical program will not survive there.

Einstein has over 2,000 students. 700 is not “the majority” of 2,000.

Moreover, if there are resources dedicated to medical sciences, students interested in those things will enroll. It’s not like the other 1,300 kids at Einstein are also into arts and just didn’t get in to VAPA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe they are literally naming their upcoming engagement as "information sessions" yet pretending they collect feedback at them, and the board seems to be buying it.

I'm very disappointed to the board reaction today. BOE doesn't know how to express criticism at all, or they truly love this model whole heartedly. I like county council meeting much better.

I agree. County council is by far more representative of the county's voices, not this toothless wonder of a BOE. I will campaign and vote for each and every one of them if they do not increase funding per MCPS's request for this half-baked money pit proposal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe they are literally naming their upcoming engagement as "information sessions" yet pretending they collect feedback at them, and the board seems to be buying it.

I'm very disappointed to the board reaction today. BOE doesn't know how to express criticism at all, or they truly love this model whole heartedly. I like county council meeting much better.

Yeah. Laura Stewart and the SMOB were the only ones I noticed showing any backbone, and not vene that much from them.

Huh? Rita Montoya was far more impressive than Laura Stewart. Stewart fumbled all over the place; my eighth grader is more articulate than that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe they are literally naming their upcoming engagement as "information sessions" yet pretending they collect feedback at them, and the board seems to be buying it.

I'm very disappointed to the board reaction today. BOE doesn't know how to express criticism at all, or they truly love this model whole heartedly. I like county council meeting much better.

I agree. County council is by far more representative of the county's voices, not this toothless wonder of a BOE. I will campaign and vote for each and every one of them if they do not increase funding per MCPS's request for this half-baked money pit proposal.

They seem like zombies. Do they even comprehend the massive changes MCPS is proposing that have an enormous price tag?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are the program groupings for region 1?

Brand new and not up online yet. The changes I remember is that they are sending the criteria-based humanities program from BCC (bad) to Whitman (much worse), and that they are letting Einstein keep only the music part of the performing arts magnet (theater and dance at Northwood.)

Einstein also has medical science and healthcare

There’s no interest at Einstein to hold that magnet!

Speak for yourself. My kids would love that and as a parent of kids inbounds for Einstein, I think it’s a great switch!

That’s great for YOUR kid but majority of Einstein students are into the arts. Almost 700 students are enrolled into The Visual and Performing Arts Academy. A medical program will not survive there.

Einstein has over 2,000 students. 700 is not “the majority” of 2,000.

Moreover, if there are resources dedicated to medical sciences, students interested in those things will enroll. It’s not like the other 1,300 kids at Einstein are also into arts and just didn’t get in to VAPA.

I think DP numbers are outdated. At an open house, the coordinator did say VAPA is the schools largest academy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the program groupings for region 1?

Brand new and not up online yet. The changes I remember is that they are sending the criteria-based humanities program from BCC (bad) to Whitman (much worse), and that they are letting Einstein keep only the music part of the performing arts magnet (theater and dance at Northwood.)

Einstein also has medical science and healthcare

Einstein has no advanced science and math classes so what does this look like.

9th and 10th grade - honors bio and honors chem, cohorted
11th and 12 grade science are IB Bio and IB Physics
And a "Biomedical" sequence

Math is Algebra 1 in 9th grade, Algebra 2 in 10th, and then for 11th and 12th it says "secondary math pathway"

So, they aren’t adding any5ing. Algebra in 9th is the slowest path.