New presentation on program analysis and boundary study up

[Anonymous]

Slide 44 is a complete contradiction of what Taylor said in July. He said all students that start a program will get to finish their program in their current building. They’re all liars!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slide 44 is a complete contradiction of what Taylor said in July. He said all students that start a program will get to finish their program in their current building. They’re all liars!

You're conflating the different kinds of programs.

[Anonymous]

According to Slide 19, the advanced curriculum will end with 3 math classes (pre-calculus, calculus BC, statistics), 1 science class in each of chemistry, physics and biology, and one CSS class. This is even the bare minimum in many local HSs right now, and chopping off 1/2-2/3 of the current SMCS course offerings.

So yes, we will end up with criteria-based extremely mediocre STEM programs in all regions. Yeah, equity wins!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to Slide 19, the advanced curriculum will end with 3 math classes (pre-calculus, calculus BC, statistics), 1 science class in each of chemistry, physics and biology, and one CSS class. This is even the bare minimum in many local HSs right now, and chopping off 1/2-2/3 of the current SMCS course offerings.

So yes, we will end up with criteria-based extremely mediocre STEM programs in all regions. Yeah, equity wins!

Nope. Slide 19 is about core classes at every school, not about advanced classes in the regional programs.

[Anonymous]

All of this is too expensive and too complicated. They should start with the new boundaries for 2-3 years as they really study program options. Would love to see a cost comparisons to just having all secondary schools offer quality programming. Who says we have to have such specialized programs? This is a want, not a need. We can’t get blood from a rock. We have so many kids that still can’t read. This is all a waste of time for a small subset of students that will do well regardless of what program or building they are in.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do some regions have 2 IB schools? This seems redundant.

They don't. Einstein and Rockville will no longer have IB programs, according to slides 40-41.

Getting rid of Einstein IB is good but they are destroying the school and offering basically nothing to the kids. They will have even less which did not seem possible.

Where is all this money coming from? They closed a bunch of things a few years ago saying they did not have the funds. There is no point to any of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of this is too expensive and too complicated. They should start with the new boundaries for 2-3 years as they really study program options. Would love to see a cost comparisons to just having all secondary schools offer quality programming. Who says we have to have such specialized programs? This is a want, not a need. We can’t get blood from a rock. We have so many kids that still can’t read. This is all a waste of time for a small subset of students that will do well regardless of what program or building they are in.

With all the extra costs they could use that money to better help the schools. We need to vote the boe out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slide 44 is a complete contradiction of what Taylor said in July. He said all students that start a program will get to finish their program in their current building. They’re all liars!

They said students in centrally managed programs would get to finish them. Slide 44 is about local programs... I think those are up to principals, right? So it would be hard for central office to guarantee them.

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Anonymous wrote:Slide 44 is a complete contradiction of what Taylor said in July. He said all students that start a program will get to finish their program in their current building. They’re all liars!

They said students in centrally managed programs would get to finish them. Slide 44 is about local programs... I think those are up to principals, right? So it would be hard for central office to guarantee them.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do some regions have 2 IB schools? This seems redundant.

The breakdowns of which regional programs will be at which high school are on pages 40-42 and I don't see any IB repeats, where do you? (Or are you getting it mixed up with the "asset map" which merely reports on which schools have what right now?)

I was looking at the asset map, but it’s wrong. Einstein currently has the Visual and PERFORMING ARTS Academy but this isn’t noted on the asset map.

According to page 42, does that mean Einstein will finally offer AP Science courses instead of IB?

Is the performing arts program countywide too? If so then yes it's an error. If it's a local program/academy then they said those aren't supposed to be reflected and may still continue.

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Anonymous wrote:Whoa, the breakdown of which programs will be at which high schools is interesting...

Moving Performing Arts from Einstein to Northwood is a big risk. Their holding school doesn’t even have an auditorium. How can we be assured the new Northwood will have performing arts facilities completed by 2027?

It’s the only reason kids choose Einstein. That sucks.

No one's choosing any school in the future anyway (except these regional programs) if we let them get rid of the DCC like they want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slide 44 is a complete contradiction of what Taylor said in July. He said all students that start a program will get to finish their program in their current building. They’re all liars!

Did you expect honesty and transparency?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do some regions have 2 IB schools? This seems redundant.

The breakdowns of which regional programs will be at which high school are on pages 40-42 and I don't see any IB repeats, where do you? (Or are you getting it mixed up with the "asset map" which merely reports on which schools have what right now?)

I was looking at the asset map, but it’s wrong. Einstein currently has the Visual and PERFORMING ARTS Academy but this isn’t noted on the asset map.

According to page 42, does that mean Einstein will finally offer AP Science courses instead of IB?

Is the performing arts program countywide too? If so then yes it's an error. If it's a local program/academy then they said those aren't supposed to be reflected and may still continue.

No, they are just known for preforming arts but they lack the classes and staff to have a great program. Other schools have much more aready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to Slide 19, the advanced curriculum will end with 3 math classes (pre-calculus, calculus BC, statistics), 1 science class in each of chemistry, physics and biology, and one CSS class. This is even the bare minimum in many local HSs right now, and chopping off 1/2-2/3 of the current SMCS course offerings.

So yes, we will end up with criteria-based extremely mediocre STEM programs in all regions. Yeah, equity wins!

A) This doesn't say that is the only class that will be offered. That is the base that all schools must offer, and B) Not all schools have this currently, so yes it is a much need realignment.

[Anonymous]

So they scrubbed any mention of balancing for demographics or socioeconomic status from the Boundary Study? I'm guessing because they're scared that'll attract attention from Trump?

While I didn't necessarily think it should have been the most important factor in the Boundary Analysis, I do think it should be considered as a factor, particularly for clusters that were extremely skewed.