Errors in the new MCPS program website

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Anonymous wrote:The descriptions were either written by AI or a non-native English speaker.

AI-generated for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this one “ Aviation – Study the aviation and aerospace industries, building skills to become a pilot or unmanned aircraft systems.”. I always dreamt of becoming an unmanned aircraft system.

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Anonymous wrote:"Critical Languages, Cultures, and Global Connections (Chinese)"

So really just one critical language, not languages plural.

Another design team member here. We pointed that out. Why not just call it Chinese Language & Culture?

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Is it really only chinese or is this a mistake? So there won’t be in Spanish or French?

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Anonymous wrote:Wanna have some fun? Look through the new regional program website for all the errors MCPS didn't catch before taking it live. My favorite is the front page on the button for regions where they left template text in so it says "This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action."

"AP Enrollment in Music Theory junior year" is another good one.



https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/program-themes/

Ap music theory junior year can happen if you plan right but the joke is some of the schools don’t offer it with their music program.

What is musicianship? How are they going to offer these classes without more staff?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it really only chinese or is this a mistake? So there won’t be in Spanish or French?

Nope. Local schools will keep their regular Spanish and French classes, of course, but if you want to enroll in a program with an in-depth focus on a particular language and culture, Chinese is the only one they'll be offering.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wanna have some fun? Look through the new regional program website for all the errors MCPS didn't catch before taking it live. My favorite is the front page on the button for regions where they left template text in so it says "This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action."

"AP Enrollment in Music Theory junior year" is another good one.



https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/program-themes/

Ap music theory junior year can happen if you plan right but the joke is some of the schools don’t offer it with their music program.

What is musicianship? How are they going to offer these classes without more staff?

There is no new staffing associated with these programs (besides one program coordinator per school.) So they will have to cut staff from the regular high school classes that the local students take, in order to be able to offer all these program classes. With that combined with enrollment drops, expect the course selections offered outside of these programs to plummet. Electives will probably be the most likely place to cut, but really any course that was previously borderline will now probably be gone for local students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wanna have some fun? Look through the new regional program website for all the errors MCPS didn't catch before taking it live. My favorite is the front page on the button for regions where they left template text in so it says "This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action."

"AP Enrollment in Music Theory junior year" is another good one.



https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/program-themes/

Are these programs officially at all these schools? Where is the data that shows that these programs will perform well at these schools?

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My child did very poorly on the Common English Notation portion of the SAT. I now know why!

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Anonymous wrote:Wanna have some fun? Look through the new regional program website for all the errors MCPS didn't catch before taking it live. My favorite is the front page on the button for regions where they left template text in so it says "This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action."

"AP Enrollment in Music Theory junior year" is another good one.



https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/program-themes/

Ap music theory junior year can happen if you plan right but the joke is some of the schools don’t offer it with their music program.

What is musicianship? How are they going to offer these classes without more staff?

There is no new staffing associated with these programs (besides one program coordinator per school.) So they will have to cut staff from the regular high school classes that the local students take, in order to be able to offer all these program classes. With that combined with enrollment drops, expect the course selections offered outside of these programs to plummet. Electives will probably be the most likely place to cut, but really any course that was previously borderline will now probably be gone for local students.

Which is why this doesn't make sense as the principal has been clear about not offering these classes now per student and parent requests. They aren't going to rearrange things so again, how does MCPS think this will work with reduced staffing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it really only chinese or is this a mistake? So there won’t be in Spanish or French?

Nope. Local schools will keep their regular Spanish and French classes, of course, but if you want to enroll in a program with an in-depth focus on a particular language and culture, Chinese is the only one they'll be offering.

Tbf many schools offer French and Spanish at high levels. I guess since Mandarin isn't offered at many schools this gives more kids some level of access to it. Assuming they can get there.

Glad they changed it to be available to kids without previous mandarin experience because before it was only for kids with mandarin in MS and most MS don't offer it.

In Region 1 it was literally going to be a "regional program" that in practice only kids that went to Pyle or have significant Mandarin exposure outside of school could access.

Of course as more and more feedback comes in it seems the number of programs and pathways is increasing quite rapidly. Which seems kind of problematic.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/engineering/

The engineering at Wheaton is completely different from Engineering at the other 5 regions.

Oh wow, yeah. Only region 3 kids get a real engineering magnet program.

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Anonymous wrote:Wanna have some fun? Look through the new regional program website for all the errors MCPS didn't catch before taking it live. My favorite is the front page on the button for regions where they left template text in so it says "This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action."

"AP Enrollment in Music Theory junior year" is another good one.



https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/program-themes/

Are these programs officially at all these schools? Where is the data that shows that these programs will perform well at these schools?

LOL. Nowhere. MCPS didn’t gather that data.

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So does this mean a school like rockville that offered the IB diploma will no longer since it’s in the same region as RM?

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Whoa! Woodward is getting CAP? That’s a big deal. Only Region 1 and Region 3 have that program.