Is Einstein getting totally screwed in the boundary and program study proposals?

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Anonymous wrote:And note, there aren't a lot of special programs in Whitman and BCC so they are just gaining resources they don't need while Einstein's resources will be reduced (their programs rely on interested students choosing Einstein through the choice process - without the DCC they will be weakened if not totally eliminated).

What resources are they going to gain if they aren’t hosting special programs?

They are hosting special programs - eg BCC will get both the regional IB and regional humanities magnet

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Anonymous wrote:Also it’s my understanding regional magnets have significant set asides for kids in the host school. So if both criteria based magnets are at BCC it makes it easier for BCC kids to get in (since ~30% spots reserved for them whereas remaining 70% spots have to be split among the other schools in the region).

Specialized magnets for the rich kids, virtual precalc for middle class kids

What are you even talking about? Every school has in-person precalc.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like it. Thoughts? What should we do about this?

What’s gonna happen to Einstein?

Boundary study options all pull lower FARMS schools out of Einstein/higher FARMS schools into it and the regional magnet program will pull higher achieving kids into magnets placed at other schools within the region leaving existing programs at Einstein without students and therefore without funding. MCPS is taking a school with a diverse socioeconomic population and good programs, which has been a relative success story, and cutting it off at the knees (and uniquely so among all the rest of the schools at issue). Parents in boundary need to speak up!

Einstein gets no regional program? What about IB, VAPA, or VAC?

Regional IB goes to BCC. Regional performing arts go to Northwood. Einstein keeps regional visual arts only plus education which as I understand it is low interest. BCC also gets humanities magnet. Someone on another thread suggested as a minimum advocating for humanities magnet at Einstein and education at BCC since they have some sort of preschool training piece.

Why would Northwood get a regional performing arts program over Einstein? That would kill VAPA.

The claim is because they have a shinny new building. MCPS refuses to invest any money in Einstein.

VAC is very small. VAPA is larger.

Einstein already has the reputation and the staff. It makes no sense to create a new performing arts program from scratch when you can strengthen an existing one.

It's not from scratch as Northwood has a performing arts academy too.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like it. Thoughts? What should we do about this?

What’s gonna happen to Einstein?

Boundary study options all pull lower FARMS schools out of Einstein/higher FARMS schools into it and the regional magnet program will pull higher achieving kids into magnets placed at other schools within the region leaving existing programs at Einstein without students and therefore without funding. MCPS is taking a school with a diverse socioeconomic population and good programs, which has been a relative success story, and cutting it off at the knees (and uniquely so among all the rest of the schools at issue). Parents in boundary need to speak up!

Einstein gets no regional program? What about IB, VAPA, or VAC?

Regional IB goes to BCC. Regional performing arts go to Northwood. Einstein keeps regional visual arts only plus education which as I understand it is low interest. BCC also gets humanities magnet. Someone on another thread suggested as a minimum advocating for humanities magnet at Einstein and education at BCC since they have some sort of preschool training piece.

Why would Northwood get a regional performing arts program over Einstein? That would kill VAPA.

The claim is because they have a shinny new building. MCPS refuses to invest any money in Einstein.

VAC is very small. VAPA is larger.

Einstein already has the reputation and the staff. It makes no sense to create a new performing arts program from scratch when you can strengthen an existing one.

Einstein doesn't have the space for a large, popular magnet.

How large is the council planning to make these magnet programs? From my understanding, most magnet programs have limited capacity. The majority of students at Einstein are part of the Visual and Performing Arts Academy.

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I can’t seem to find the slides at the moment but I believe that Einstein will be in the only region that separates performing arts magnet from the visual arts.

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Anonymous wrote:Also it’s my understanding regional magnets have significant set asides for kids in the host school. So if both criteria based magnets are at BCC it makes it easier for BCC kids to get in (since ~30% spots reserved for them whereas remaining 70% spots have to be split among the other schools in the region).

Specialized magnets for the rich kids, virtual precalc for middle class kids

I heard one ES under Einstein couldn’t even secure a compact math teacher, so the 4th grade compact math class needs to take virtual class with a few other schools (not sure what other ESs are), but this sounds pretty sad.

What are you even talking about? Every school has in-person precalc.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t seem to find the slides at the moment but I believe that Einstein will be in the only region that separates performing arts magnet from the visual arts.

I believe they’re updating regions and programs. Where is the funding for this coming from?

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Yeah if they are doing virtual compacted math for ES I would not put it past them to claim they offer AP calc in every school but if you don't pay attention least $1 million for your house it has to be virtual.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t seem to find the slides at the moment but I believe that Einstein will be in the only region that separates performing arts magnet from the visual arts.

No, they're separate in regions 4 and 5 as well, according to the August presentation. But they're going to be revising the programs for the October meeting.

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Anonymous wrote:If they’re going to do all these split articulations anyway they should pull Town of Kensington kids within the Einstein walk zone into the school. That might get people’s attention.

This!!! It is absurd that TOK within walking distance doesn’t go to Einstein!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah if they are doing virtual compacted math for ES I would not put it past them to claim they offer AP calc in every school but if you don't pay attention least $1 million for your house it has to be virtual.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah if they are doing virtual compacted math for ES I would not put it past them to claim they offer AP calc in every school but if you don't pay attention least $1 million for your house it has to be virtual.

Roll all you want but these are absolutely the vibes they are giving out by taking resources from poor schools and putting them in rich schools

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t seem to find the slides at the moment but I believe that Einstein will be in the only region that separates performing arts magnet from the visual arts.

I believe they’re updating regions and programs. Where is the funding for this coming from?

It's not an issue because they don't know how much it will cost, so no need to worry about how to fund it

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Anonymous wrote:If they’re going to do all these split articulations anyway they should pull Town of Kensington kids within the Einstein walk zone into the school. That might get people’s attention.

This!!! It is absurd that TOK within walking distance doesn’t go to Einstein!

But WJ's in a different region than Einstein, and I don't think they split-articulate across regions.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah if they are doing virtual compacted math for ES I would not put it past them to claim they offer AP calc in every school but if you don't pay attention least $1 million for your house it has to be virtual.

What’s interesting is they do it for es but not hs. When they took away the MVA they said virtual was not effective for es.