BOE Spring Facilities and Boundaries Work Session #2

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Yup. I was also very disturbed when they said they are developing a teacher training program and they would present to the board if they request (so there isn't one yet). And Taylor emphasized that new teacher headcount won't be considered until the FY27 budget is brought up on the table, and new teachers won't be hired until summer 2027. Imagine they'll all start to work in September 2027! Who is going to support them in teaching brand new curriculum!
Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know whether that was your sarcastic jk, but I actually kind of like the quantum physics magnet idea.

It was sarcastic. These are high school kids. Have you seen middle school physics thought in MCPS? It is a joke. And that is the physics knowledge high school freshmen are bringing with them. And you want to teach them quantum physics.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Yup. I was also very disturbed when they said they are developing a teacher training program and they would present to the board if they request (so there isn't one yet). And Taylor emphasized that new teacher headcount won't be considered until the FY27 budget is brought up on the table, and new teachers won't be hired until summer 2027. Imagine they'll all start to work in September 2027! Who is going to support them in teaching brand new curriculum!
Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

My reply got lost so I'll type again. Yup, I also felt unsettled when they said they were still developing teacher training programs, and when Taylor emphasized (around 2:42 into the recorded video) that they won't talk about teacher headcount until the FY27 budget is on the table, and the new teachers won't be hired/started to get trained until summer, 2027. Imagine in September 2027, everyone needs to stand in place and start to teach brand new curriculum. Where could they seek for support? Are they learning the day before and then teaching the very next day?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know whether that was your sarcastic jk, but I actually kind of like the quantum physics magnet idea.

It was sarcastic. These are high school kids. Have you seen middle school physics thought in MCPS? It is a joke. And that is the physics knowledge high school freshmen are bringing with them. And you want to teach them quantum physics.

In Jennie's mind, you can teach them game design one day with all those coding/programing, and then fashion design the next day. In this way, both teacher and students can learn together. What a wonderful idea!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Yup. I was also very disturbed when they said they are developing a teacher training program and they would present to the board if they request (so there isn't one yet). And Taylor emphasized that new teacher headcount won't be considered until the FY27 budget is brought up on the table, and new teachers won't be hired until summer 2027. Imagine they'll all start to work in September 2027! Who is going to support them in teaching brand new curriculum!
Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

My reply got lost so I'll type again. Yup, I also felt unsettled when they said they were still developing teacher training programs, and when Taylor emphasized (around 2:42 into the recorded video) that they won't talk about teacher headcount until the FY27 budget is on the table, and the new teachers won't be hired/started to get trained until summer, 2027. Imagine in September 2027, everyone needs to stand in place and start to teach brand new curriculum. Where could they seek for support? Are they learning the day before and then teaching the very next day?

This is par for the course in MCPS. Despite having such a large bureaucracy and top-down system, they have never done curriculum rollouts well. It seems like something they could excel at, but, never happens.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

When was the machine learning and data science magnet added? I was trying to track when that got thrown into the mix.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Yup. I was also very disturbed when they said they are developing a teacher training program and they would present to the board if they request (so there isn't one yet). And Taylor emphasized that new teacher headcount won't be considered until the FY27 budget is brought up on the table, and new teachers won't be hired until summer 2027. Imagine they'll all start to work in September 2027! Who is going to support them in teaching brand new curriculum!
Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

My reply got lost so I'll type again. Yup, I also felt unsettled when they said they were still developing teacher training programs, and when Taylor emphasized (around 2:42 into the recorded video) that they won't talk about teacher headcount until the FY27 budget is on the table, and the new teachers won't be hired/started to get trained until summer, 2027. Imagine in September 2027, everyone needs to stand in place and start to teach brand new curriculum. Where could they seek for support? Are they learning the day before and then teaching the very next day?

This is par for the course in MCPS. Despite having such a large bureaucracy and top-down system, they have never done curriculum rollouts well. It seems like something they could excel at, but, never happens.

Don't worry: PLCs will fix everything!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Programs aren't plug and play, though. Teachers need to be trained, and I don't mean just six weeks of training. The programs will be in name only, with some worksheets thrown in. How pathetic. This was like when MCPS brought in the "magnet" level social studies in MS when they changed the MS magnet criteria. That was pretty much in name only, too. My kid had it.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Yup. I was also very disturbed when they said they are developing a teacher training program and they would present to the board if they request (so there isn't one yet). And Taylor emphasized that new teacher headcount won't be considered until the FY27 budget is brought up on the table, and new teachers won't be hired until summer 2027. Imagine they'll all start to work in September 2027! Who is going to support them in teaching brand new curriculum!
Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

My reply got lost so I'll type again. Yup, I also felt unsettled when they said they were still developing teacher training programs, and when Taylor emphasized (around 2:42 into the recorded video) that they won't talk about teacher headcount until the FY27 budget is on the table, and the new teachers won't be hired/started to get trained until summer, 2027. Imagine in September 2027, everyone needs to stand in place and start to teach brand new curriculum. Where could they seek for support? Are they learning the day before and then teaching the very next day?

They won't finalize curriculum until AFTER students have applied to the programs. Who's going to apply to a program that doesn't have a curriculum yet?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

When was the machine learning and data science magnet added? I was trying to track when that got thrown into the mix.

If it was added, yesterday was the first MCPS said anything. The February presentation didn't include that.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Yup. I was also very disturbed when they said they are developing a teacher training program and they would present to the board if they request (so there isn't one yet). And Taylor emphasized that new teacher headcount won't be considered until the FY27 budget is brought up on the table, and new teachers won't be hired until summer 2027. Imagine they'll all start to work in September 2027! Who is going to support them in teaching brand new curriculum!
Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

My reply got lost so I'll type again. Yup, I also felt unsettled when they said they were still developing teacher training programs, and when Taylor emphasized (around 2:42 into the recorded video) that they won't talk about teacher headcount until the FY27 budget is on the table, and the new teachers won't be hired/started to get trained until summer, 2027. Imagine in September 2027, everyone needs to stand in place and start to teach brand new curriculum. Where could they seek for support? Are they learning the day before and then teaching the very next day?

They won't finalize curriculum until AFTER students have applied to the programs. Who's going to apply to a program that doesn't have a curriculum yet?

DP

This here is why the DCC families, especially those with kids in 7th grade, are livid with Taylor. Up until this fall, they had the expectation that next fall their kids would be choosing from a wide array fo established programs. Now it will be more limited and also many if not all of the programs will be disorganized and lacking in substance. Who knows how many staff will leave existing programs for ones in other schools. I don't understand why Taylor has to break what is already there everywhere all at once.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

Every time Jeannie Franklin pats herself on the back for making sure engineering is in all regions, I want to scream.

In the past couple of cycles, 160-200 DCC students were admitted to Wheaton via choice, and all of them have access to the engineering academy there. That's on top of the students who get into the engineering magnet.

In the new model, the engineering program at BCC will have up to 30 seats for non-BCC students per year.

So yes, engineering will be available, but it won't be "abundant" for Blair, Einstein and Northwood students. In fact, if will be dramatically LESS abundant than it is now.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

Every time Jeannie Franklin pats herself on the back for making sure engineering is in all regions, I want to scream.

In the past couple of cycles, 160-200 DCC students were admitted to Wheaton via choice, and all of them have access to the engineering academy there. That's on top of the students who get into the engineering magnet.

In the new model, the engineering program at BCC will have up to 30 seats for non-BCC students per year.

So yes, engineering will be available, but it won't be "abundant" for Blair, Einstein and Northwood students. In fact, if will be dramatically LESS abundant than it is now.

To confirm will engineering be only at BCC? There was a set of slides that had it at both BCC and Northwood

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

Every time Jeannie Franklin pats herself on the back for making sure engineering is in all regions, I want to scream.

In the past couple of cycles, 160-200 DCC students were admitted to Wheaton via choice, and all of them have access to the engineering academy there. That's on top of the students who get into the engineering magnet.

In the new model, the engineering program at BCC will have up to 30 seats for non-BCC students per year.

So yes, engineering will be available, but it won't be "abundant" for Blair, Einstein and Northwood students. In fact, if will be dramatically LESS abundant than it is now.

To confirm will engineering be only at BCC? There was a set of slides that had it at both BCC and Northwood

True, according to the Feb 5 slides, Northwood has Engineering too.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing

OMG you must be kidding.

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns.

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes.

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones.

Who's Jessie?

Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails.

Jeannie Franklin

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.

When was the machine learning and data science magnet added? I was trying to track when that got thrown into the mix.

Yesterday's BOE meeting. When Jennie answered Julie's question regarding community concerns that new Woodward will become an art school, Jennie said they just added a ML/DS program to Woodward. They also moved the music program (performing?) from Churchill to RM because overcapcity in Churchill (and they still think RM is not overcrowded).