Errors in the new MCPS program website

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or are these programs not even close to the same, even though they have similar names and descriptions?

Environmental Science & Leadership
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/environmental-science--leadership/

Global Ecology and Leadership
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/global-ecology/

It's like Poolesville gets to keep the good ecology program and everyone else gets the Dollar Store version.

Like everything in MCPS they are trying to create a perception of uniformity and equal access, calling it "equity" and not achieving any of those things.

Who are all the community partners that will give hundreds of students internships?

I'm on the design team and we asked about that. MCPS plans to leave it up to schools to figure that out.

This is actually a critical piece. It takes a long time (years) to develop the internship relationships/programs that amount to valuable experiences for all parties. Geesh.

And why would these businesses even want to deal with HS age kids when they have a line out the door of adult applicants.

The kids aren't paid workers so they don't compete with adults.

Have you every supervised an intern? Some are great and others create more trouble than they are worth. Since they are only there short term it is often not worth the headache.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

Serious question - what's wrong with IB English?

Nothing but some kids want ap. There are two ap English classes and one of the new teachers is excellent.

Nothing. Kids just need to take it and either pass the IB test or sit for the AP exam. An IB English kid should also be able to pass AP English exams.

And note there are only 2-3 AP English classes that are offered by the college board.

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Anonymous wrote:After looking at so many half-baked pathways on that site, I am beginning to see the strategy.

Classes, teachers, that is all secondary. The idea is to create many mini cohorts of students with similar interests and hope that they will lift each other up. That is why they are adding random magnets with no vision on how to execute them whatsoever. They expect that kids will figure it out.

So people trying to nitpick about specific classes, and why is physics going before calculus, and why is business class in the art magnet, are just wasting their time. The architects of this model don't believe that is important at this stage and expect that kids will figure it out over time and that programs will evolve accordingly.

It is ironic that this approach is what some equity advocates resent the most. Their belief is that their kids are capable but don't have access to right resources. If only they had access to some class with a fancy name, like MVC, the sky would be limit. This model is telling them - the only resource you are gonna get is other smart kids; observe them and learn from them.

It is actually not a bad concept. However, it will not help introvert kids, and parents with no resources, nor energy and time, to supplement weak curriculums through extra activities (AoPS, RSM, ...) will stay frustrated.

Except they're actually killing the cohorts of advanced kids at home schools (except the richest high schools that aren't going to have large numbers of kids leave for programs and would still have enough advanced kids left behind even if they did.) And the advanced kids who'll be left at these weakened home schools will be disproportionately poorer ones whose parents can't drive them to programs at other schools. That's the inequitable part.

There aren't big cohorts now as many in the DCC leave for Blair, Wheaton or Private because of the lack of school offerings. These families will have to move or make do, like the current ones have to and there is going to be a bigger divide, especially when some schools could, but refuse to provide opportunities for all students. Farms rates will go up at these schools as families leave.

Private schools offer LESS courses. What are you even talking about?!?

No, they offer more in terms of higher level and advanced depending on the school and allow independent study.

Actual on a general scale, private schools do not offer more in terms of courses because they don’t have the numbers to support it. Their course catalogs are full of courses that are not normally taught. Depending on school some of the normal courses are more advanced but that is because of how the student body is selected

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

I’m confuse why Einstein doesn’t have the performing arts and visual arts regional programs. Not only does it make the most sense but a Medical Program will fail at Einstein just like the short live Teacher Academy.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

I’m confuse why Einstein doesn’t have the performing arts and visual arts regional programs. Not only does it make the most sense but a Medical Program will fail at Einstein just like the short live Teacher Academy.

It’s just a proposal. Nothing is official quite yet.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

I’m confuse why Einstein doesn’t have the performing arts and visual arts regional programs. Not only does it make the most sense but a Medical Program will fail at Einstein just like the short live Teacher Academy.

Because they decided it was better to pit Einstein and Northwood against eachother for a handful of programs rather than dial back on everything they're giving Whitman and BCC by even a smidge. Yay for equity!

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

I’m confuse why Einstein doesn’t have the performing arts and visual arts regional programs. Not only does it make the most sense but a Medical Program will fail at Einstein just like the short live Teacher Academy.

Probably because they don't have the staff and course offerings, and the principal is not committed to making it happen. With the limited science, a medical program makes no sense. The teacher academy existed a few years ago at Einstein and was shut down due to lack of interest.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

I’m confuse why Einstein doesn’t have the performing arts and visual arts regional programs. Not only does it make the most sense but a Medical Program will fail at Einstein just like the short live Teacher Academy.

Because they decided it was better to pit Einstein and Northwood against eachother for a handful of programs rather than dial back on everything they're giving Whitman and BCC by even a smidge. Yay for equity!

The class offerings are at those schools so they don't require additional staffing or support.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

I’m confuse why Einstein doesn’t have the performing arts and visual arts regional programs. Not only does it make the most sense but a Medical Program will fail at Einstein just like the short live Teacher Academy.

Because they decided it was better to pit Einstein and Northwood against eachother for a handful of programs rather than dial back on everything they're giving Whitman and BCC by even a smidge. Yay for equity!

The class offerings are at those schools so they don't require additional staffing or support.

Northwood has a humanities program and a law program. They can easily give both programs to Northwood.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

I’m confuse why Einstein doesn’t have the performing arts and visual arts regional programs. Not only does it make the most sense but a Medical Program will fail at Einstein just like the short live Teacher Academy.

Probably because they don't have the staff and course offerings, and the principal is not committed to making it happen. With the limited science, a medical program makes no sense. The teacher academy existed a few years ago at Einstein and was shut down due to lack of interest.

So the principal is the problem?

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

Principal blames a lot on “not enough student interest” but doesn’t have effective course registration. We need those policies from OLO Report 2026-2 implemented ASAP!

MCCPTA should take a closer look at this.

MCCPTA has asked MCPS to address this. They need to press Councilmember Leudtke about this since she is the one that commissioned the OLO Report. Why waste our tax dollars to identify issues that parents have already complained about if you aren’t going to do anything to fix them?

Question regarding the above concern about Einstein. Isn't IB good for humanities? What is wrong with taking IB classes for humanities?

Nothing's wrong with it. Einstein has plenty of IB and AP classes in the humanities. Students can take either or both.

And, what about the stem kids? Or, the arts kids? There are not enough of those classes. Why should kids not strong in humanities, but strong in stem be forced to focus on humanities? There is a misbalance e of course offerings at some schools due to principal flexibility and bias. They don’t even offer the classes that are needed to make the new regional programs work and when parents ask they are told lack of interest.

I’m confuse why Einstein doesn’t have the performing arts and visual arts regional programs. Not only does it make the most sense but a Medical Program will fail at Einstein just like the short live Teacher Academy.

Probably because they don't have the staff and course offerings, and the principal is not committed to making it happen. With the limited science, a medical program makes no sense. The teacher academy existed a few years ago at Einstein and was shut down due to lack of interest.

So the principal is the problem?

There's one poster who likes to bash the principal on every thread.