The RFP in MCPS - are they going to gut the magnet and immersion programs or enhance them?

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The socialist experiment by this superintendent is levelling schools to the lowest common denominator. Expect DCC level instruction everywhere.

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My point as I stated above is that "The magnet programs should be supported by our school superintendent not watered down into redundancy in a well intentioned but misguided attempt to engineer social justice".
These are bright students whose minds have been well trained for many, many years thanks to our magnet programs and as a result they are able to excel academically. The Rhodes scholar program is very prestigious. Kudos to these MCPS magnet alums.

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I don't consider the leftist approach by Starr to be well intentioned at all. It is simply an attempt to attract and pander to a growing class of students who are highly ill prepared and whose parents can't support the needed tax base. So, the attempt to mash everybody into the same level of learning.

Don't believe me? The lefty created a school levelling department.

what's wrong with trying to level the *public* schools? Again, this is public school we are talking about. You live in MoCo. You pay MoCo property tax (if you own property), and that pool of money gets spread out across to all schools. Just because you live in a more affluent area of MoCo doesn't mean you deserve to get better schools.

If you believe that only people who pay property taxes which fund the school budget, should get to send their kids to public schools, then you'd have to kick out all the renters, too. Basically, you're saying only homeowners should get to send their kids to public school, ie, only well off people should get a good education. That's not how the US works.

Here's the thing though, the schools aren't "bad". If you swapped the student body of Whitman and Wheaton, suddenly Wheaton would be the "good" school. The schools give the same access to classes and curriculum across the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The socialist experiment by this superintendent is levelling schools to the lowest common denominator. Expect DCC level instruction everywhere.

Did Starr nationalize the means of production, and I missed it?

Also, how do you know what the level of instruction is in the DCC?

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Anonymous wrote:The socialist experiment by this superintendent is levelling schools to the lowest common denominator. Expect DCC level instruction everywhere.

Did Starr nationalize the means of production, and I missed it?

Also, how do you know what the level of instruction is in the DCC?

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I'm tickled by the idea of complaining that a public school superintendent is socialist. If you want a free-market, capitalist education, send your child to a private school.

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My point as I stated above is that "The magnet programs should be supported by our school superintendent not watered down into redundancy in a well intentioned but misguided attempt to engineer social justice".
These are bright students whose minds have been well trained for many, many years thanks to our magnet programs and as a result they are able to excel academically. The Rhodes scholar program is very prestigious. Kudos to these MCPS magnet alums.

+1

I don't consider the leftist approach by Starr to be well intentioned at all. It is simply an attempt to attract and pander to a growing class of students who are highly ill prepared and whose parents can't support the needed tax base. So, the attempt to mash everybody into the same level of learning.

Don't believe me? The lefty created a school levelling department.

what's wrong with trying to level the *public* schools? Again, this is public school we are talking about. You live in MoCo. You pay MoCo property tax (if you own property), and that pool of money gets spread out across to all schools. Just because you live in a more affluent area of MoCo doesn't mean you deserve to get better schools.

If you believe that only people who pay property taxes which fund the school budget, should get to send their kids to public schools, then you'd have to kick out all the renters, too. Basically, you're saying only homeowners should get to send their kids to public school, ie, only well off people should get a good education. That's not how the US works.

Here's the thing though, the schools aren't "bad". If you swapped the student body of Whitman and Wheaton, suddenly Wheaton would be the "good" school. The schools give the same access to classes and curriculum across the county.

Wrong! It has nothing to do with the infrastructure of the school but it has everything to do with the FARMS rate of the student body, so I do believe you could swap the student body and while better teachers are attracted to better schools, because the burn out rate is not as high, the Whitman kids and parents would not put up with crappy instruction from Wheation, whereas some of the Wheaton students would benefit at the Whitman campus while the others would have their difficult homelife situations continue to be an issue.