MCPS to end areawide Blair Magnet and countywide Richard Montgomery's IB program

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Anonymous wrote:So what does this mean. Someone who lives in the Blair pyramid might be able to send their kids to Whitman?

Gasp!

Honestly, we cannot let the poors invade our school.

Whitman has many poor kids, aka house poor kids with parents who were so desperate to send their kids there that they put all their money into the cheapest ugly shack they could afford.

Ahhh there it is, the old the people on the rich side of town are the real poor people argument. Even if highly extended which I am sure some are, if you fake a rich life style and die in debt then well done. Beats conceding one’s mediocrity and spending your waking days in silver spring and sending what’s left of your 401k to your bar tender kid with his associates form MC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what does this mean. Someone who lives in the Blair pyramid might be able to send their kids to Whitman?

Gasp!

Honestly, we cannot let the poors invade our school.

Whitman has many poor kids, aka house poor kids with parents who were so desperate to send their kids there that they put all their money into the cheapest ugly shack they could afford.

Ahhh there it is, the old the people on the rich side of town are the real poor people argument. Even if highly extended which I am sure some are, if you fake a rich life style and die in debt then well done. Beats conceding one’s mediocrity and spending your waking days in silver spring and sending what’s left of your 401k to your bar tender kid with his associates form MC

I don't know what you are babbling about but W schools do have a lot of kids from rented homes nearby. Many families rent just they can send their kids to a W school. Are they poor? Who knows.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what does this mean. Someone who lives in the Blair pyramid might be able to send their kids to Whitman?

Gasp!

Honestly, we cannot let the poors invade our school.

Whitman has many poor kids, aka house poor kids with parents who were so desperate to send their kids there that they put all their money into the cheapest ugly shack they could afford.

Ahhh there it is, the old the people on the rich side of town are the real poor people argument. Even if highly extended which I am sure some are, if you fake a rich life style and die in debt then well done. Beats conceding one’s mediocrity and spending your waking days in silver spring and sending what’s left of your 401k to your bar tender kid with his associates form MC

I don't know what you are babbling about but W schools do have a lot of kids from rented homes nearby. Many families rent just they can send their kids to a W school. Are they poor? Who knows.

I hate it when the poor renters show up at school. I wish they would stop avoiding east county.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what does this mean. Someone who lives in the Blair pyramid might be able to send their kids to Whitman?

Gasp!

Honestly, we cannot let the poors invade our school.

Whitman has many poor kids, aka house poor kids with parents who were so desperate to send their kids there that they put all their money into the cheapest ugly shack they could afford.

Ahhh there it is, the old the people on the rich side of town are the real poor people argument. Even if highly extended which I am sure some are, if you fake a rich life style and die in debt then well done. Beats conceding one’s mediocrity and spending your waking days in silver spring and sending what’s left of your 401k to your bar tender kid with his associates form MC

I don't know what you are babbling about but W schools do have a lot of kids from rented homes nearby. Many families rent just they can send their kids to a W school. Are they poor? Who knows.

We do know, actually. According to the most recent data, Whitman (for example) has less than 5 percent poor kids. It could be zero — the statistics stop at “less than 5 percent.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what does this mean. Someone who lives in the Blair pyramid might be able to send their kids to Whitman?

Gasp!

Honestly, we cannot let the poors invade our school.

Whitman has many poor kids, aka house poor kids with parents who were so desperate to send their kids there that they put all their money into the cheapest ugly shack they could afford.

Ahhh there it is, the old the people on the rich side of town are the real poor people argument. Even if highly extended which I am sure some are, if you fake a rich life style and die in debt then well done. Beats conceding one’s mediocrity and spending your waking days in silver spring and sending what’s left of your 401k to your bar tender kid with his associates form MC

I don't know what you are babbling about but W schools do have a lot of kids from rented homes nearby. Many families rent just they can send their kids to a W school. Are they poor? Who knows.

We do know, actually. According to the most recent data, Whitman (for example) has less than 5 percent poor kids. It could be zero — the statistics stop at “less than 5 percent.”

Compared the “good” DCC school (Blair) who buses in hundreds of affluent kinds for programs and still has half the school on FARMs despite those efforts. But yes all those sucker in their million dollar homes are the real poor people.

[Anonymous]

Wondering if all the Takoma Magnet kids will still be able to apply for spots in the Blair Magnet regardless of home school. That will give Blair a huge bump compared to other regional programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wondering if all the Takoma Magnet kids will still be able to apply for spots in the Blair Magnet regardless of home school. That will give Blair a huge bump compared to other regional programs.

Just realizing there might not be transportation. I guess the current Blair/TP bus system will still need to exist for the middle school kids just with 1/2 the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wondering if all the Takoma Magnet kids will still be able to apply for spots in the Blair Magnet regardless of home school. That will give Blair a huge bump compared to other regional programs.

The incoming 9th grade class is the last group of areawide student catchment for the Blair magnet. After this yer, only students in the new Region 1 will be eligible to apply for the Blair magnet.

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if all the Takoma Magnet kids will still be able to apply for spots in the Blair Magnet regardless of home school. That will give Blair a huge bump compared to other regional programs.

The incoming 9th grade class is the last group of areawide student catchment for the Blair magnet. After this yer, only students in the new Region 1 will be eligible to apply for the Blair magnet.

You mean the last group will be incoming 8th graders, who will be applying this year for 9th grade next year (2026)

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Anonymous wrote:SMCs will be criteria based and all others will be lottery/ interest. It’s awful!

I thought they said each of the 5 areas would have both criteria-based and interest-based options?

Each of the 5 program areas (STEM, IB/Humanities, Arts, etc), I mean.

Yes STEM criteria based, all others interest.

Where did you see/hear that? I have been following very closely and haven't seen anything like that.

See slide 33

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ4P6782A9/$file/Sec%20Prog%20Analysis%20Boundary%20Studies%20Engaga%20Plan%20Update%20250724%20PPT.pdf

Huh? Slide 33 doesn't say that at all. Slide 33 is an example of one of the program categories (the STEM one), illustrating how each program will have a mix of criteria and interest-based pathways but the interest-based pathways may vary from region to region. It says that some pathways within the program will be criteria-based (SMCS) and others will be interest-based (cyber-security, data science, etc ) The other 4 program types (IB/humanities, healthcare, arts/design, and leadership/public service) are not on this slide because it's just an example, but they will also have a mix of criteria and interest based pathways. Have you even been watching the meetings?

And Health shows all interest based too a few slides later . The fact they don’t describe anything else as criteria based specifically is worrisome.

So they are proposing 5 '"programs" and then multiple pathways within each program. Slide 33 is an example of one specific program (STEM) with what some of the pathways within it could look like. Slide 35 drills down further and gives an example of one particular pathway (in this case, the "Clinical Healthcare Pathway (interest-based)", one of multiple pathways that fall under the "Medical Science and Healthcare" program.). There will likely be a number of other pathways under Medical Science and Healthcare as well including one that is criteria-based, probably something along the lines of the Wheaton biomedical program. Slide 35 doesn't show "all interest based' pathways for health, it literally only looks at one of the many medical science/healthcare pathways and it just happens to be an interest-based one.

Do they have any options that teach proper use of hyphens in compound adjectives vs. predicate adjectives?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SMCs will be criteria based and all others will be lottery/ interest. It’s awful!

I thought they said each of the 5 areas would have both criteria-based and interest-based options?

Each of the 5 program areas (STEM, IB/Humanities, Arts, etc), I mean.

Yes STEM criteria based, all others interest.

Where did you see/hear that? I have been following very closely and haven't seen anything like that.

See slide 33

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ4P6782A9/$file/Sec%20Prog%20Analysis%20Boundary%20Studies%20Engaga%20Plan%20Update%20250724%20PPT.pdf

Huh? Slide 33 doesn't say that at all. Slide 33 is an example of one of the program categories (the STEM one), illustrating how each program will have a mix of criteria and interest-based pathways but the interest-based pathways may vary from region to region. It says that some pathways within the program will be criteria-based (SMCS) and others will be interest-based (cyber-security, data science, etc ) The other 4 program types (IB/humanities, healthcare, arts/design, and leadership/public service) are not on this slide because it's just an example, but they will also have a mix of criteria and interest based pathways. Have you even been watching the meetings?

And Health shows all interest based too a few slides later . The fact they don’t describe anything else as criteria based specifically is worrisome.

So they are proposing 5 '"programs" and then multiple pathways within each program. Slide 33 is an example of one specific program (STEM) with what some of the pathways within it could look like. Slide 35 drills down further and gives an example of one particular pathway (in this case, the "Clinical Healthcare Pathway (interest-based)", one of multiple pathways that fall under the "Medical Science and Healthcare" program.). There will likely be a number of other pathways under Medical Science and Healthcare as well including one that is criteria-based, probably something along the lines of the Wheaton biomedical program. Slide 35 doesn't show "all interest based' pathways for health, it literally only looks at one of the many medical science/healthcare pathways and it just happens to be an interest-based one.

Do they have any options that teach proper use of hyphens in compound adjectives vs. predicate adjectives?

You are asking for too much. Aside from their education degrees, the superintendent has a social studies degree and the chief academic offer has a psychology degree. The head of the consortia program driving this locomotive has a BS in Human Ecology and Education. This is the brain trust that is making the decisions for the new program initiatives in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if all the Takoma Magnet kids will still be able to apply for spots in the Blair Magnet regardless of home school. That will give Blair a huge bump compared to other regional programs.

The incoming 9th grade class is the last group of areawide student catchment for the Blair magnet. After this yer, only students in the new Region 1 will be eligible to apply for the Blair magnet.

Besides the fact that it is the 2026-27 9th graders that will be the last with the current boundaries, there has not been anything announced about whether any students will be allowed to continue to a high school based on attending a sending middle school even if their home address is not in the region. I suspect you are right that it will not be allowed, but that has not been officially determined yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if all the Takoma Magnet kids will still be able to apply for spots in the Blair Magnet regardless of home school. That will give Blair a huge bump compared to other regional programs.

The incoming 9th grade class is the last group of areawide student catchment for the Blair magnet. After this yer, only students in the new Region 1 will be eligible to apply for the Blair magnet.

Besides the fact that it is the 2026-27 9th graders that will be the last with the current boundaries, there has not been anything announced about whether any students will be allowed to continue to a high school based on attending a sending middle school even if their home address is not in the region. I suspect you are right that it will not be allowed, but that has not been officially determined yet.

That’s putting the cart before the horse. The future of the MS magnets hasn’t yet been announced, but the most consistent solutions would be one Humanities and one STEM magnet MS per region, or no magnet MSs and increased options within every MS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wondering if all the Takoma Magnet kids will still be able to apply for spots in the Blair Magnet regardless of home school. That will give Blair a huge bump compared to other regional programs.

The incoming 9th grade class is the last group of areawide student catchment for the Blair magnet. After this yer, only students in the new Region 1 will be eligible to apply for the Blair magnet.

Besides the fact that it is the 2026-27 9th graders that will be the last with the current boundaries, there has not been anything announced about whether any students will be allowed to continue to a high school based on attending a sending middle school even if their home address is not in the region. I suspect you are right that it will not be allowed, but that has not been officially determined yet.

That’s putting the cart before the horse. The future of the MS magnets hasn’t yet been announced, but the most consistent solutions would be one Humanities and one STEM magnet MS per region, or no magnet MSs and increased options within every MS.

The middle school magnets will follow the lead of the high d=school magnets

[Anonymous]

God help us! We are f-ed!!