What did the board say about the Regional model and the DCC for upcoming school year?

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Anonymous wrote:So what I understand is all 3 MSMC schools feed into the region where Kennedy and Wheaton are.

My question now is can all the CURRENT 7th graders in those schools, (regardless of where they will go in 2027/28 when DCC will be dissolved) apply to Kennedy and Wheaton coming FALL since all three schools feed into that region? Basically grandfathering them because they are already attending those schools.

Yes. Current 7th graders in those schools can continue and will be grandfathered in.

But starting next year, those DCC kids outside of Region 3 should be cut off since the DCC no longer exists and they can't cross regions anymore.

Interesting. So my kid from Clarksburg who goes to Argyle now can actually apply to Blair CAP or Wheaton Engineering, along with applying to the magnets in our region?

Is Wheaton Engineering the only engineering focused high school is MCPS?

I doubt that seriously. Usually you can apply to the HS magnets/programs in your region unless they were countywide. Given that there is no longer countywide programs/schools your kid can apply to the programs/magnets in region.

The ability to continue with your program is respect to the school and program the student would currently be in when the new model takes affect. Meaning if that if they are already in a HS program they won’t have to leave that school/program.

I wonder if the kids in the MSMC will actually be told which school's magnet program they can apply to or it will be left to the parents to figure it out themselves.

It worked a bit different with MSMC before - basically any kid attending those middle schools, even if they were not part of the DCC could apply to specific programs in the DCC - that was how they pulled in out of consortium kids by dangling this carrot in front of them. It was the only way upcounty school kids were able to go to down county schools like Wheaton Engineering and Blair CAP

Yes, and that would be part of the inequity that folks want to see resolved. All 8th graders are sent letters indicating which programs they are eligible to apply currently. I don't see why that wouldn't continue.

So far all they have done is get rid of the NEC and DCC. If they were offering something they want others to have why are they getting rid of them?

In what will be a futile attempt to entice westside students to apply for eastside schools' ill-conceived, or collapsed, regional programs, MCPS instituted east-west regions. Instead there will be a Hunger Games scenario of eastside parents with the social/financial capital applying to get their students into westside programs, for which there will be too few seats.

Rearranging the chairs on the ship deck here.

There shouldn't be. Taylor promised abundant program access and an end to the scarcity model that shut kids out from the countywide magnets.

I wish there had been a discussion about what worked and what didn't work about the DCC. They never talked about that, just threw shade at DCC parents as though it's racist to want to keep access for our very economically and racially diverse populations to programs and coursework that the wealthier and less diverse neighborhoods get at their home schools. The DCC schools are geographically closer to each other and easier to get between than the east-west regions they are proposing. Traveling from Silver Spring to Bethesda in the mornings is a nightmare, to Whitman is even worse.

Whitman would be a nightmare plus very different culture. DCC worked but it needed more funding and more course opportunities at all schools.

It’s really interesting that folks talk about this as if only the DCC schools, Wootton and Whitman are included or matter. Like you can’t fathom that the other 18 HS in the county might have needs, wants, and thoughts on how things have been working to date.

W schools and BCC have the course offerings so to many of us not at thise schools it’s not a consideration as your kids needs can be met at their home schools.

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Anonymous wrote:So what I understand is all 3 MSMC schools feed into the region where Kennedy and Wheaton are.

My question now is can all the CURRENT 7th graders in those schools, (regardless of where they will go in 2027/28 when DCC will be dissolved) apply to Kennedy and Wheaton coming FALL since all three schools feed into that region? Basically grandfathering them because they are already attending those schools.

Yes. Current 7th graders in those schools can continue and will be grandfathered in.

But starting next year, those DCC kids outside of Region 3 should be cut off since the DCC no longer exists and they can't cross regions anymore.

Interesting. So my kid from Clarksburg who goes to Argyle now can actually apply to Blair CAP or Wheaton Engineering, along with applying to the magnets in our region?

Is Wheaton Engineering the only engineering focused high school is MCPS?

I doubt that seriously. Usually you can apply to the HS magnets/programs in your region unless they were countywide. Given that there is no longer countywide programs/schools your kid can apply to the programs/magnets in region.

The ability to continue with your program is respect to the school and program the student would currently be in when the new model takes affect. Meaning if that if they are already in a HS program they won’t have to leave that school/program.

I wonder if the kids in the MSMC will actually be told which school's magnet program they can apply to or it will be left to the parents to figure it out themselves.

It worked a bit different with MSMC before - basically any kid attending those middle schools, even if they were not part of the DCC could apply to specific programs in the DCC - that was how they pulled in out of consortium kids by dangling this carrot in front of them. It was the only way upcounty school kids were able to go to down county schools like Wheaton Engineering and Blair CAP

Yes, and that would be part of the inequity that folks want to see resolved. All 8th graders are sent letters indicating which programs they are eligible to apply currently. I don't see why that wouldn't continue.

So far all they have done is get rid of the NEC and DCC. If they were offering something they want others to have why are they getting rid of them?

In what will be a futile attempt to entice westside students to apply for eastside schools' ill-conceived, or collapsed, regional programs, MCPS instituted east-west regions. Instead there will be a Hunger Games scenario of eastside parents with the social/financial capital applying to get their students into westside programs, for which there will be too few seats.

Rearranging the chairs on the ship deck here.

There shouldn't be. Taylor promised abundant program access and an end to the scarcity model that shut kids out from the countywide magnets.

I wish there had been a discussion about what worked and what didn't work about the DCC. They never talked about that, just threw shade at DCC parents as though it's racist to want to keep access for our very economically and racially diverse populations to programs and coursework that the wealthier and less diverse neighborhoods get at their home schools. The DCC schools are geographically closer to each other and easier to get between than the east-west regions they are proposing. Traveling from Silver Spring to Bethesda in the mornings is a nightmare, to Whitman is even worse.

Whitman would be a nightmare plus very different culture. DCC worked but it needed more funding and more course opportunities at all schools.

It’s really interesting that folks talk about this as if only the DCC schools, Wootton and Whitman are included or matter. Like you can’t fathom that the other 18 HS in the county might have needs, wants, and thoughts on how things have been working to date.

Lol

Obviously folks are sharing their own needs, wants and thoughts and not trying to pretend they know how people in other school communities feel.

If you don't like hearing from people in certain clusters feel they don't have to read these threads.
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There is sharing your meeds and wants and then there is close mindedness. Many on DCUm clearly can’t see the forest for the trees. Ya’ll are spending soo much worried about one small set of schools and forecasting doom when you have no idea what will happen.

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Anonymous wrote:So what I understand is all 3 MSMC schools feed into the region where Kennedy and Wheaton are.

My question now is can all the CURRENT 7th graders in those schools, (regardless of where they will go in 2027/28 when DCC will be dissolved) apply to Kennedy and Wheaton coming FALL since all three schools feed into that region? Basically grandfathering them because they are already attending those schools.

Yes. Current 7th graders in those schools can continue and will be grandfathered in.

But starting next year, those DCC kids outside of Region 3 should be cut off since the DCC no longer exists and they can't cross regions anymore.

Interesting. So my kid from Clarksburg who goes to Argyle now can actually apply to Blair CAP or Wheaton Engineering, along with applying to the magnets in our region?

Is Wheaton Engineering the only engineering focused high school is MCPS?

I doubt that seriously. Usually you can apply to the HS magnets/programs in your region unless they were countywide. Given that there is no longer countywide programs/schools your kid can apply to the programs/magnets in region.

The ability to continue with your program is respect to the school and program the student would currently be in when the new model takes affect. Meaning if that if they are already in a HS program they won’t have to leave that school/program.

I wonder if the kids in the MSMC will actually be told which school's magnet program they can apply to or it will be left to the parents to figure it out themselves.

It worked a bit different with MSMC before - basically any kid attending those middle schools, even if they were not part of the DCC could apply to specific programs in the DCC - that was how they pulled in out of consortium kids by dangling this carrot in front of them. It was the only way upcounty school kids were able to go to down county schools like Wheaton Engineering and Blair CAP

Yes, and that would be part of the inequity that folks want to see resolved. All 8th graders are sent letters indicating which programs they are eligible to apply currently. I don't see why that wouldn't continue.

So far all they have done is get rid of the NEC and DCC. If they were offering something they want others to have why are they getting rid of them?

In what will be a futile attempt to entice westside students to apply for eastside schools' ill-conceived, or collapsed, regional programs, MCPS instituted east-west regions. Instead there will be a Hunger Games scenario of eastside parents with the social/financial capital applying to get their students into westside programs, for which there will be too few seats.

Rearranging the chairs on the ship deck here.

There shouldn't be. Taylor promised abundant program access and an end to the scarcity model that shut kids out from the countywide magnets.

I wish there had been a discussion about what worked and what didn't work about the DCC. They never talked about that, just threw shade at DCC parents as though it's racist to want to keep access for our very economically and racially diverse populations to programs and coursework that the wealthier and less diverse neighborhoods get at their home schools. The DCC schools are geographically closer to each other and easier to get between than the east-west regions they are proposing. Traveling from Silver Spring to Bethesda in the mornings is a nightmare, to Whitman is even worse.

Whitman would be a nightmare plus very different culture. DCC worked but it needed more funding and more course opportunities at all schools.

It’s really interesting that folks talk about this as if only the DCC schools, Wootton and Whitman are included or matter. Like you can’t fathom that the other 18 HS in the county might have needs, wants, and thoughts on how things have been working to date.

Lol

Obviously folks are sharing their own needs, wants and thoughts and not trying to pretend they know how people in other school communities feel.

If you don't like hearing from people in certain clusters feel they don't have to read these threads.

There is sharing your meeds and wants and then there is close mindedness. Many on DCUm clearly can’t see the forest for the trees. Ya’ll are spending soo much worried about one small set of schools and forecasting doom when you have no idea what will happen.

On March 26 the BOE dissolved the NEC and DCC. Aside from giving the Superintendent the authority to create unspecified regional programs, that is all they did. So DCC families posting here know that our kids won't have access to many of the established programs that current 7th graders were already excited about. They have now had the rug pulled out from under them, with zero acknowledgement from MCPS or the BOE besides veiled and not so veiled insults. So we have some idea of what will happen - we know the dissolution of the DCC will be disruptive and what will be available for current 7th graders will be inferior to what current 8th graders can access.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what I understand is all 3 MSMC schools feed into the region where Kennedy and Wheaton are.

My question now is can all the CURRENT 7th graders in those schools, (regardless of where they will go in 2027/28 when DCC will be dissolved) apply to Kennedy and Wheaton coming FALL since all three schools feed into that region? Basically grandfathering them because they are already attending those schools.

Yes. Current 7th graders in those schools can continue and will be grandfathered in.

But starting next year, those DCC kids outside of Region 3 should be cut off since the DCC no longer exists and they can't cross regions anymore.

Interesting. So my kid from Clarksburg who goes to Argyle now can actually apply to Blair CAP or Wheaton Engineering, along with applying to the magnets in our region?

Is Wheaton Engineering the only engineering focused high school is MCPS?

I doubt that seriously. Usually you can apply to the HS magnets/programs in your region unless they were countywide. Given that there is no longer countywide programs/schools your kid can apply to the programs/magnets in region.

The ability to continue with your program is respect to the school and program the student would currently be in when the new model takes affect. Meaning if that if they are already in a HS program they won’t have to leave that school/program.

I wonder if the kids in the MSMC will actually be told which school's magnet program they can apply to or it will be left to the parents to figure it out themselves.

It worked a bit different with MSMC before - basically any kid attending those middle schools, even if they were not part of the DCC could apply to specific programs in the DCC - that was how they pulled in out of consortium kids by dangling this carrot in front of them. It was the only way upcounty school kids were able to go to down county schools like Wheaton Engineering and Blair CAP

Yes, and that would be part of the inequity that folks want to see resolved. All 8th graders are sent letters indicating which programs they are eligible to apply currently. I don't see why that wouldn't continue.

So far all they have done is get rid of the NEC and DCC. If they were offering something they want others to have why are they getting rid of them?

In what will be a futile attempt to entice westside students to apply for eastside schools' ill-conceived, or collapsed, regional programs, MCPS instituted east-west regions. Instead there will be a Hunger Games scenario of eastside parents with the social/financial capital applying to get their students into westside programs, for which there will be too few seats.

Rearranging the chairs on the ship deck here.

There shouldn't be. Taylor promised abundant program access and an end to the scarcity model that shut kids out from the countywide magnets.

I wish there had been a discussion about what worked and what didn't work about the DCC. They never talked about that, just threw shade at DCC parents as though it's racist to want to keep access for our very economically and racially diverse populations to programs and coursework that the wealthier and less diverse neighborhoods get at their home schools. The DCC schools are geographically closer to each other and easier to get between than the east-west regions they are proposing. Traveling from Silver Spring to Bethesda in the mornings is a nightmare, to Whitman is even worse.

Whitman would be a nightmare plus very different culture. DCC worked but it needed more funding and more course opportunities at all schools.

It’s really interesting that folks talk about this as if only the DCC schools, Wootton and Whitman are included or matter. Like you can’t fathom that the other 18 HS in the county might have needs, wants, and thoughts on how things have been working to date.

And if you think that this regional program initiative will help to address poor academic outcomes, or provide quality programming in all areas around the county, I have a bridge in the Sahara that I would like to sell you.