Montoya is not fit for office

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

For the families at "lower performing schools" I think you would be surprised that many of those parents are just as satisfied if not more satisfied than parents are higher performing schools. And commuting is a big burden even for families with cars.

For getting high performing kids to the lower performing schools, I agree it might not work. Whitman kids rarely leave for other schools right now, they aren't going to suddenly start wanting to go to Blair.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

The central stop transportation model will kill the chance for high-performing kids in low-performing schools to get out, unless their families are resourceful (in which case they probably wouldn't purchase a house at low-performing school zone at the beginning).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

For the families at "lower performing schools" I think you would be surprised that many of those parents are just as satisfied if not more satisfied than parents are higher performing schools. And commuting is a big burden even for families with cars.

For getting high performing kids to the lower performing schools, I agree it might not work. Whitman kids rarely leave for other schools right now, they aren't going to suddenly start wanting to go to Blair.

I agree. Those parents I mentioned definitely have to be willing to shoulder the burden of the transportation issue. We'll find out what proportion of those parents that is when the model rolls out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

The central stop transportation model will kill the chance for high-performing kids in low-performing schools to get out, unless their families are resourceful (in which case they probably wouldn't purchase a house at low-performing school zone at the beginning).

Not everyone wants their kids at a W school, shocker I know. We could afford it but no interest. But, there is no way to make it work transportation wise to Whitman even if we wanted to. I’d rather use that money for college.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

For the families at "lower performing schools" I think you would be surprised that many of those parents are just as satisfied if not more satisfied than parents are higher performing schools. And commuting is a big burden even for families with cars.

For getting high performing kids to the lower performing schools, I agree it might not work. Whitman kids rarely leave for other schools right now, they aren't going to suddenly start wanting to go to Blair.

I agree. Those parents I mentioned definitely have to be willing to shoulder the burden of the transportation issue. We'll find out what proportion of those parents that is when the model rolls out.

Very few kids will be offered the opportunity and only those that can do the transportation will. It will create further inequities like now with the kids left behind.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

No, we will not. We will figure it out. We may move out of the county once our oldest graduates. Why stay with a school that isn’t offering much and super high property taxes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

No, we will not. We will figure it out. We may move out of the county once our oldest graduates. Why stay with a school that isn’t offering much and super high property taxes?

Great I agree. Part of the problem is the fact that many people are retiring in place and no mobility in property which is why there is declining enrollment. We plan to do the same but not because we’re unhappy with Option H but rather literally it’s what people should do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I have heard Taylor say that absolutely nonsensical BS statement about only figuring out 9th grade courses during the first year of planning, and then doing 10th grade coursework the following year , and, so forth...Curriculum development requires scoping and sequencing that requires a comprehensive multi-year approach (which he should know, as an educator). So, he is either a) incompetent as an educator (totally believable); b) a complete liar (again, believable); or c) incompetent and a liar. (Yep.)

I guess he thinks we are all stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

No, we will not. We will figure it out. We may move out of the county once our oldest graduates. Why stay with a school that isn’t offering much and super high property taxes?

Great I agree. Part of the problem is the fact that many people are retiring in place and no mobility in property which is why there is declining enrollment. We plan to do the same but not because we’re unhappy with Option H but rather literally it’s what people should do.

That's not why there is a decline in enrollment. How many people outside of your bubble can afford a million-dollar home? Housing costs are a huge issue as well as child care costs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I have heard Taylor say that absolutely nonsensical BS statement about only figuring out 9th grade courses during the first year of planning, and then doing 10th grade coursework the following year , and, so forth...Curriculum development requires scoping and sequencing that requires a comprehensive multi-year approach (which he should know, as an educator). So, he is either a) incompetent as an educator (totally believable); b) a complete liar (again, believable); or c) incompetent and a liar. (Yep.)

I guess he thinks we are all stupid.

He's a business and sales guy, not an educator.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

Exactly. This regional program contract is not going to raise lower academic outcomes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.

Exactly. This regional program contract is not going to raise lower academic outcomes.

It will not raise it as the smart kids will always be smart and the struggling kids aren't getting anything extra out of this, and if anything will see a reduction in school staff, so they will get even less support vs. more. It's going to make the divide bigger.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I have heard Taylor say that absolutely nonsensical BS statement about only figuring out 9th grade courses during the first year of planning, and then doing 10th grade coursework the following year , and, so forth...Curriculum development requires scoping and sequencing that requires a comprehensive multi-year approach (which he should know, as an educator). So, he is either a) incompetent as an educator (totally believable); b) a complete liar (again, believable); or c) incompetent and a liar. (Yep.)

I guess he thinks we are all stupid.

He's a business and sales guy, not an educator.

Apparently Taylor was a social studies teacher before he became an admin….

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.

I have heard Taylor say that absolutely nonsensical BS statement about only figuring out 9th grade courses during the first year of planning, and then doing 10th grade coursework the following year , and, so forth...Curriculum development requires scoping and sequencing that requires a comprehensive multi-year approach (which he should know, as an educator). So, he is either a) incompetent as an educator (totally believable); b) a complete liar (again, believable); or c) incompetent and a liar. (Yep.)

I guess he thinks we are all stupid.

He's a business and sales guy, not an educator.

Apparently Taylor was a social studies teacher before he became an admin….

He has an MBA from William and Mary, guessing he was in the Executive MBA program...