Thursday Nov 20 BOE Discussion on Boundaries and Regional Program Model

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the ppt
Boundary Studies Program Analysis Update 251120 PPT.pdf https://share.google/M0lQdbx2jTMlewfP9

They seem to be frantically adding programs to address concerns. BCC now getting an interest based engineering program so they can siphon off more wealthy students from Einstein and Northwood, so awesome.

And, yet, they aren't giving many slots. Einstein familes (and now Northwood) have always been the forgotten school - no renovations, no advanced classes, few clubs...

I suspect they are doing it at Einstein as they aready have the classes so it looks like they are getting something new when they aren't. Einstein only has one engineering teacher who teaches a combine two classes in one in one class period class and that's it (great teacher but stretched thin as that's not fair to anyone). How MCPS thinks this is ok is beyond me!

Isn't Einstein getting a new criteria based Biotech program, a new interet based health care program, the criteria based visual arts for the region, the criteria based music for the region plus IB?

The biotech program will be a glorified lab tech training program.

https://marylandpublicschools.org/programs/documents/cte/standards/hhs_biotechnology-a.pdf

I was told it is a copy of the biotech program at Northwest. Not sure how that differs from what you linked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agroecology?

At which community engagement session did they hear “what this needs is 6 new programs about sustainable farming?”

I can’t tell because they only posted the video from one of them, but it wasn’t Kennedy.

When they heard people say "your program distribution is inequitable and is favoring richer schools, you should move some of the criteria-based programs from richer schools to middle and poorer schools."

Which of course to MCPS means "we can't possibly take anything away from rich schools, let's let schools like Whitman keep real magnets like humanities and make up a new sham criteria-based program for schools like Northwood even though there's not even enough demand for one program let alone 6."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the ppt
Boundary Studies Program Analysis Update 251120 PPT.pdf https://share.google/M0lQdbx2jTMlewfP9

They seem to be frantically adding programs to address concerns. BCC now getting an interest based engineering program so they can siphon off more wealthy students from Einstein and Northwood, so awesome.

And, yet, they aren't giving many slots. Einstein familes (and now Northwood) have always been the forgotten school - no renovations, no advanced classes, few clubs...

I suspect they are doing it at Einstein as they aready have the classes so it looks like they are getting something new when they aren't. Einstein only has one engineering teacher who teaches a combine two classes in one in one class period class and that's it (great teacher but stretched thin as that's not fair to anyone). How MCPS thinks this is ok is beyond me!

Isn't Einstein getting a new criteria based Biotech program, a new interet based health care program, the criteria based visual arts for the region, the criteria based music for the region plus IB?

The biotech program will be a glorified lab tech training program.

https://marylandpublicschools.org/programs/documents/cte/standards/hhs_biotechnology-a.pdf

I was told it is a copy of the biotech program at Northwest. Not sure how that differs from what you linked.

No idea what Northwest has but it's safe to assume that all the “new” programs MCPS is adding will be aligned with the new state career and technical education guidelines. The MD Blueprint requires districts to get 455 of kids to graduate with an industry recognized credential by 2031. MCPS is developing all their programs to accomplish that goal, but they’re not being honest about it. Instead, they’re putting titles like “agro-eology” on introductory crop science programs and hoping no one will notice.

Smart parents will work with principals to get strong IB and AP offerings, great teachers, and cool extracurriculars. Don’t bother with the Temu magnets MCPS is trying to sell us.

[Anonymous]

Who is going to tell these people they need to Do Less?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the ppt
Boundary Studies Program Analysis Update 251120 PPT.pdf https://share.google/M0lQdbx2jTMlewfP9

They seem to be frantically adding programs to address concerns. BCC now getting an interest based engineering program so they can siphon off more wealthy students from Einstein and Northwood, so awesome.

And, yet, they aren't giving many slots. Einstein familes (and now Northwood) have always been the forgotten school - no renovations, no advanced classes, few clubs...

I suspect they are doing it at Einstein as they aready have the classes so it looks like they are getting something new when they aren't. Einstein only has one engineering teacher who teaches a combine two classes in one in one class period class and that's it (great teacher but stretched thin as that's not fair to anyone). How MCPS thinks this is ok is beyond me!

Isn't Einstein getting a new criteria based Biotech program, a new interet based health care program, the criteria based visual arts for the region, the criteria based music for the region plus IB?

The biotech program will be a glorified lab tech training program.

https://marylandpublicschools.org/programs/documents/cte/standards/hhs_biotechnology-a.pdf

I was told it is a copy of the biotech program at Northwest. Not sure how that differs from what you linked.

No idea what Northwest has but it's safe to assume that all the “new” programs MCPS is adding will be aligned with the new state career and technical education guidelines. The MD Blueprint requires districts to get 455 of kids to graduate with an industry recognized credential by 2031. MCPS is developing all their programs to accomplish that goal, but they’re not being honest about it. Instead, they’re putting titles like “agro-eology” on introductory crop science programs and hoping no one will notice.

Smart parents will work with principals to get strong IB and AP offerings, great teachers, and cool extracurriculars. Don’t bother with the Temu magnets MCPS is trying to sell us.

45%. Not 455.

[Anonymous]

Slides 13 and 14 are just gross on so many levels. Besides being manipulative, it's messed-up to use AI art, they clearly told the AI to make basically all of the kids students of color, and the faces of many of the "kids" are grotesque if you look at them. Is no one on the team embarrassed by stooping to this kind of thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is going to tell these people they need to Do Less?

The entire Opportunity Design Team told them that. They didn’t listen to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slides 13 and 14 are just gross on so many levels. Besides being manipulative, it's messed-up to use AI art, they clearly told the AI to make basically all of the kids students of color, and the faces of many of the "kids" are grotesque if you look at them. Is no one on the team embarrassed by stooping to this kind of thing?

Are students allowed to use AI art like that? I bet they aren’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the ppt
Boundary Studies Program Analysis Update 251120 PPT.pdf https://share.google/M0lQdbx2jTMlewfP9

They seem to be frantically adding programs to address concerns. BCC now getting an interest based engineering program so they can siphon off more wealthy students from Einstein and Northwood, so awesome.

Is this posted somewhere publicly? I didn’t see it on MCPS’ site.

It's posted on tomorrow's BOE agenda

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slides 13 and 14 are just gross on so many levels. Besides being manipulative, it's messed-up to use AI art, they clearly told the AI to make basically all of the kids students of color, and the faces of many of the "kids" are grotesque if you look at them. Is no one on the team embarrassed by stooping to this kind of thing?

Same reaction. They are so manipulative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is going to tell these people they need to Do Less?

The entire Opportunity Design Team told them that. They didn’t listen to us.

+1. MCPS cant even post MAP scores online in a timely fashion. How are they going to start a gazillion new programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to inform them to STOP saying they are doing this in iterations because it just sounds dumb at this point. What are the iterations? What are you working on each time? How long is an iteration? What are you evaluating, and what feedback came from the evaluation system?

Aren’t the supposed to be presenting a fairly well defined plan on 11/20?

I hate when people turn regular words into buzz words.

Same here. Whenever I hear the word "stakeholder" from MCPS, I want to vomit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:um, that AI generated picture of the kids is AWFUL.

Truly an embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is Medical Science a program at both Clarksburg and Northwest??? The students should just be choosing a focus of Biotech or Biomedical in later years, not it being distinct programs at two separate schools.

And how is Global Ecology (which is currently criteria) not an interest based leadership theme program at Poolesville but AgroEcology and Leadership is I guess both Leadership and Science theme at Damascus??? I could support the inclusion of Agro, but why not make it Global Ecology, Agriculture and Sustainability?

And seriously when is someone going to evaluate these local programs. They can’t still honestly believe they can continue to have all these local programs along with the regional ones.

🤦‍♀️

Seriously. It is not sustainable to run all of these programs and MCPS is lying when they say otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slides 13 and 14 are just gross on so many levels. Besides being manipulative, it's messed-up to use AI art, they clearly told the AI to make basically all of the kids students of color, and the faces of many of the "kids" are grotesque if you look at them. Is no one on the team embarrassed by stooping to this kind of thing?

So creepy!