Will Thomas Taylor Survive the Massive Changes He is Introducing?

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

He's lying. Most of the people who attended RMIB were from W schools and the RM Cluster itself.

Yep. MCPS did a whole slide showing which kids attend different programs. RMIB is mostly Churchill, Wooton, and RM. In the new model, RM, Churchill and Wooton are in a region together along with Rockville. You know they won't cut that IB program at all, even with the regional change. It will be the same as it is now and Churchill and Wooton kids will get even more access to it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ56678E2B/$file/Attachment%20D%20SY2025%20Student%20Enrollment%20Countywide%20Programs%20250724.pdf

According to this distribution, after the regional model is implemented, RMIB will be 50% of its current size, Blair SMCS will be 25% of its current size, and Wootton STEM will be 50% of the current Blair SMCS size, assuming the exactly same criteria are imposed as of right now. Calling real estate agents: you can see which zip codes to recommend your future home buyers, right?

Nah, they won’t make RM IB smaller! They’ll keep it the same size and let more Wooton and Churchill kids in.

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

He's lying. Most of the people who attended RMIB were from W schools and the RM Cluster itself.

Yep. MCPS did a whole slide showing which kids attend different programs. RMIB is mostly Churchill, Wooton, and RM. In the new model, RM, Churchill and Wooton are in a region together along with Rockville. You know they won't cut that IB program at all, even with the regional change. It will be the same as it is now and Churchill and Wooton kids will get even more access to it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ56678E2B/$file/Attachment%20D%20SY2025%20Student%20Enrollment%20Countywide%20Programs%20250724.pdf

According to this distribution, after the regional model is implemented, RMIB will be 50% of its current size, Blair SMCS will be 25% of its current size, and Wootton STEM will be 50% of the current Blair SMCS size, assuming the exactly same criteria are imposed as of right now. Calling real estate agents: you can see which zip codes to recommend your future home buyers, right?

Why are you assuming there wouldn't be any changes in which students apply to which programs?

Of course they will loosen the criteria and water down the programs, but my point is RMIB and the new Wootton STEM programs won't be watered down as much, compared to Blair SMCS if the class size remains the same. For Blair SMCS, the fact that there was no draw from waitlist in the past two years means that there are barely any turned-down offer from Whitman, BCC, or Einstein. Since BCC IB is currently strong and is on the track to become stronger when becoming regional, and it's closer to Whitman, my bet is those families from Whitman that claim they do not want to even give it a try to Blair SMCS will feel more appealing to try BCC-IB in the future. Blair SMCS might attract more Einstein students in the future per se.

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

He's lying. Most of the people who attended RMIB were from W schools and the RM Cluster itself.

Yep. MCPS did a whole slide showing which kids attend different programs. RMIB is mostly Churchill, Wooton, and RM. In the new model, RM, Churchill and Wooton are in a region together along with Rockville. You know they won't cut that IB program at all, even with the regional change. It will be the same as it is now and Churchill and Wooton kids will get even more access to it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ56678E2B/$file/Attachment%20D%20SY2025%20Student%20Enrollment%20Countywide%20Programs%20250724.pdf

According to this distribution, after the regional model is implemented, RMIB will be 50% of its current size, Blair SMCS will be 25% of its current size, and Wootton STEM will be 50% of the current Blair SMCS size, assuming the exactly same criteria are imposed as of right now. Calling real estate agents: you can see which zip codes to recommend your future home buyers, right?

Why are you assuming there wouldn't be any changes in which students apply to which programs?

Of course they will loosen the criteria and water down the programs, but my point is RMIB and the new Wootton STEM programs won't be watered down as much, compared to Blair SMCS if the class size remains the same. For Blair SMCS, the fact that there was no draw from waitlist in the past two years means that there are barely any turned-down offer from Whitman, BCC, or Einstein. Since BCC IB is currently strong and is on the track to become stronger when becoming regional, and it's closer to Whitman, my bet is those families from Whitman that claim they do not want to even give it a try to Blair SMCS will feel more appealing to try BCC-IB in the future. Blair SMCS might attract more Einstein students in the future per se.

I think my point is the regional model on the long run would bring benefit to the social-economically wealthy regions/schools, and cause more harms to social-economically poorer regions/schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

He's lying. Most of the people who attended RMIB were from W schools and the RM Cluster itself.

Yep. MCPS did a whole slide showing which kids attend different programs. RMIB is mostly Churchill, Wooton, and RM. In the new model, RM, Churchill and Wooton are in a region together along with Rockville. You know they won't cut that IB program at all, even with the regional change. It will be the same as it is now and Churchill and Wooton kids will get even more access to it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ56678E2B/$file/Attachment%20D%20SY2025%20Student%20Enrollment%20Countywide%20Programs%20250724.pdf

According to this distribution, after the regional model is implemented, RMIB will be 50% of its current size, Blair SMCS will be 25% of its current size, and Wootton STEM will be 50% of the current Blair SMCS size, assuming the exactly same criteria are imposed as of right now. Calling real estate agents: you can see which zip codes to recommend your future home buyers, right?

Why are you assuming there wouldn't be any changes in which students apply to which programs?

Of course they will loosen the criteria and water down the programs, but my point is RMIB and the new Wootton STEM programs won't be watered down as much, compared to Blair SMCS if the class size remains the same. For Blair SMCS, the fact that there was no draw from waitlist in the past two years means that there are barely any turned-down offer from Whitman, BCC, or Einstein. Since BCC IB is currently strong and is on the track to become stronger when becoming regional, and it's closer to Whitman, my bet is those families from Whitman that claim they do not want to even give it a try to Blair SMCS will feel more appealing to try BCC-IB in the future. Blair SMCS might attract more Einstein students in the future per se.

More than half the students at Blair SMCS are from Wooton, Churchill, and WJ. And Blair is really overcrowded. MCPS might use this an excuse to shave seats off the Blair program. That way they can move staff to new SMCS at Wooton, so the Wooton and Churchill kids can still get the benefits of the Blair program’s depth of experience, but closer to home.

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

He's lying. Most of the people who attended RMIB were from W schools and the RM Cluster itself.

Yep. MCPS did a whole slide showing which kids attend different programs. RMIB is mostly Churchill, Wooton, and RM. In the new model, RM, Churchill and Wooton are in a region together along with Rockville. You know they won't cut that IB program at all, even with the regional change. It will be the same as it is now and Churchill and Wooton kids will get even more access to it.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ56678E2B/$file/Attachment%20D%20SY2025%20Student%20Enrollment%20Countywide%20Programs%20250724.pdf

According to this distribution, after the regional model is implemented, RMIB will be 50% of its current size, Blair SMCS will be 25% of its current size, and Wootton STEM will be 50% of the current Blair SMCS size, assuming the exactly same criteria are imposed as of right now. Calling real estate agents: you can see which zip codes to recommend your future home buyers, right?

Why are you assuming there wouldn't be any changes in which students apply to which programs?

Of course they will loosen the criteria and water down the programs, but my point is RMIB and the new Wootton STEM programs won't be watered down as much, compared to Blair SMCS if the class size remains the same. For Blair SMCS, the fact that there was no draw from waitlist in the past two years means that there are barely any turned-down offer from Whitman, BCC, or Einstein. Since BCC IB is currently strong and is on the track to become stronger when becoming regional, and it's closer to Whitman, my bet is those families from Whitman that claim they do not want to even give it a try to Blair SMCS will feel more appealing to try BCC-IB in the future. Blair SMCS might attract more Einstein students in the future per se.

More than half the students at Blair SMCS are from Wooton, Churchill, and WJ. And Blair is really overcrowded. MCPS might use this an excuse to shave seats off the Blair program. That way they can move staff to new SMCS at Wooton, so the Wooton and Churchill kids can still get the benefits of the Blair program’s depth of experience, but closer to home.

And this is how you dismantle Blair's magnet, a program that has stood among the best in the nation, until Thomas Taylor showed up to say that Blair is inequitable. I had a BOE member say to my face that Blair is hoarding programs.

Blair's magnet and CAP were developed to attract high-achieving students to the school, to turn it around from the lowest performing school in MCPS back in the 1980s. It was all about real equity. Blair teachers developed these programs - there weren't bureaucrats with no curriculum experience from the school district office involved.

Blair will remain too big after its boundaries are adjusted, and soon, it will likely be overcrowded again. And it will slide down in achievement, lose its best teachers, and Blair will be back where it began after awhile. So much for equity. Thanks Thomas Taylor.

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

Then he or CO needs to supply evidences to support their hypothesis. Community had provided so many evidences to prove the other way around. They chose to pretend deaf or play political languages to dodge from making a comment about.

Correct. All of the research and data that I've seen has been done by parent advocates, and it's more persuasive than what MCPS has provided.

The Bethesda Mag opinion piece in Aug contained good links, including an MCPS report for IB and AP data as of Feb 2025. Comparing RMIB vs. 3 regionals, in summary, RMIB has >95% of students with mean scores >5, while the 3 regional IBs have low numbers of students "passing" and has mean scores <4 (ie, NOT passing).

It's not just IB. Similar trends in the AP data, with only notable exception of Spanish Lang (if I remember correctly). Additionally, the 3 regional IB schools offer fewer selection of AP classes/exams. So if a student wants IB (or AP), it's no wonder students choose RMIB over the regionals.

So this "proxy" data indicates that this is likely our future with the regional model.

TT, NHP, JF all claim that the regional IBs haven't had a fair shake yet and blame RMIB for its underenrollment. JF also said that IB teacher training has been the same. It's too bad they are blind to their own data.

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

Then he or CO needs to supply evidences to support their hypothesis. Community had provided so many evidences to prove the other way around. They chose to pretend deaf or play political languages to dodge from making a comment about.

Correct. All of the research and data that I've seen has been done by parent advocates, and it's more persuasive than what MCPS has provided.

The Bethesda Mag opinion piece in Aug contained good links, including an MCPS report for IB and AP data as of Feb 2025. Comparing RMIB vs. 3 regionals, in summary, RMIB has >95% of students with mean scores >5, while the 3 regional IBs have low numbers of students "passing" and has mean scores <4 (ie, NOT passing).

It's not just IB. Similar trends in the AP data, with only notable exception of Spanish Lang (if I remember correctly). Additionally, the 3 regional IB schools offer fewer selection of AP classes/exams. So if a student wants IB (or AP), it's no wonder students choose RMIB over the regionals.

So this "proxy" data indicates that this is likely our future with the regional model.

TT, NHP, JF all claim that the regional IBs haven't had a fair shake yet and blame RMIB for its underenrollment. JF also said that IB teacher training has been the same. It's too bad they are blind to their own data.

They're not blind to their own data. They're just dishonest and liars and don't want to be held accountable to facts or data.

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Anonymous wrote:The ability for Taylor to survive this depends on we the people, giving him and the BOE enough pressure to make him pay.

But too many people seem convinced by Taylor’s nice guy act.

I can see how the nice-guy act resonated so effectively after McKnight's toxicity. But all these changes he is intent on introducing are just going to cause a lot of problems. Taylor will be gone, one way or another, but we'll be left with a system that he has roiled.

It’s funny reading the continual new threads around this, because some fk you really refuse to realize that while Taylor may be implementing and pushing this, it’s been a request from the community for a long time. Maybe just not you.

The community also wants all HS to be have high expectations and rigor.

Both are lacking in a number of schools for a number of reasons.

The problem is not with the IDEA of the regional program. It's the fact that they are LYING and have FAILED to do thorough prep, research and resource alignment to make good on their promise.

MCPS is lying when they say they can grandfather people with existing programs and stand up all of these new programs, AND have them be programs of equitable quality as their predecessors.

MCPS could not even replicate the success of RM's IB program with the Regional IBs at Watkins Mill, Springbrook and Kennedy. So what makes you think they can do multiples more of that on the current timeline with no additional financial or human resources?

Taylor would argue that the Regional IBs would have been more successful if so many of the county's top students weren't still driving past them to go to RMIB. That seems to be a primary rationale for ending the countywide model in favor of the new regional model.

Then he or CO needs to supply evidences to support their hypothesis. Community had provided so many evidences to prove the other way around. They chose to pretend deaf or play political languages to dodge from making a comment about.

Correct. All of the research and data that I've seen has been done by parent advocates, and it's more persuasive than what MCPS has provided.

The Bethesda Mag opinion piece in Aug contained good links, including an MCPS report for IB and AP data as of Feb 2025. Comparing RMIB vs. 3 regionals, in summary, RMIB has >95% of students with mean scores >5, while the 3 regional IBs have low numbers of students "passing" and has mean scores <4 (ie, NOT passing).

It's not just IB. Similar trends in the AP data, with only notable exception of Spanish Lang (if I remember correctly). Additionally, the 3 regional IB schools offer fewer selection of AP classes/exams. So if a student wants IB (or AP), it's no wonder students choose RMIB over the regionals.

So this "proxy" data indicates that this is likely our future with the regional model.

TT, NHP, JF all claim that the regional IBs haven't had a fair shake yet and blame RMIB for its underenrollment. JF also said that IB teacher training has been the same. It's too bad they are blind to their own data.

They're not blind to their own data. They're just dishonest and liars and don't want to be held accountable to facts or data.

Yes. So sick of their bs.

[Anonymous]

The regional magnet model is a good one. Y’all are tearing it down before it has even begun.

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Anonymous wrote:The regional magnet model is a good one. Y’all are tearing it down before it has even begun.

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Anonymous wrote:The regional magnet model is a good one. Y’all are tearing it down before it has even begun.

It is really bad for the kids in the DCC and NEC. They lose choice, programs are being downgraded from consortium-wide to local, at the same time, some of those schools are losing hundreds of students to boundary changes. That will mean staff and budget cuts.

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Anonymous wrote:The regional magnet model is a good one. Y’all are tearing it down before it has even begun.

This is a pale statement without any elaboration of your justification or situation awareness. Please show me that I'm wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:The regional magnet model is a good one. Y’all are tearing it down before it has even begun.

It is really bad for the kids in the DCC and NEC. They lose choice, programs are being downgraded from consortium-wide to local, at the same time, some of those schools are losing hundreds of students to boundary changes. That will mean staff and budget cuts.

You mean, some of those absurdly overcrowded schools will finally be able to fit all their students inside their buildings.

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Anonymous wrote:The regional magnet model is a good one. Y’all are tearing it down before it has even begun.

It is really bad for the kids in the DCC and NEC. They lose choice, programs are being downgraded from consortium-wide to local, at the same time, some of those schools are losing hundreds of students to boundary changes. That will mean staff and budget cuts.

You mean, some of those absurdly overcrowded schools will finally be able to fit all their students inside their buildings.

You mean, hundreds of students will be forced out of some of the most popular schools in the county, and cut off from choice and programs they've enjoyed for decades.

[Anonymous]

Where’s the evidence the regional magnet will work? There are decades of evidence that Blair is one of the best STEM programs in the country. Guess it doesn’t matter.