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

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God help us! We are f-ed!!

The means by which we attracted significant numbers of achievement to the east side is being deconstructed. These changes are seismic and central office staff doesn't have the expertise or staffing numbers to construct new programs of excellence across the county. CO staff doesn't understand what they are destroying.

Bye bye Niki Hazel. Bye bye Thomas Taylor. Four of the BOE members were leaving anyway. As for the rest, who vote for this debacle: bye bye.

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

Yes it does. You must not have kids in ES.

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

I think you're the one who doesn't have kids in MCPS.
Troll

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Anonymous wrote:God help us! We are f-ed!!

The means by which we attracted significant numbers of achievement to the east side is being deconstructed. These changes are seismic and central office staff doesn't have the expertise or staffing numbers to construct new programs of excellence across the county. CO staff doesn't understand what they are destroying.

Bye bye Niki Hazel. Bye bye Thomas Taylor. Four of the BOE members were leaving anyway. As for the rest, who vote for this debacle: bye bye.

Yang is leaving...who else has said so?

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

Yes it does. You must not have kids in ES.

Maybe at your school, but not at ours. They didn't teach spelling, grammar, math facts, or vocabulary. They handed the kids a dictionary and said look it up (and some of those kids couldn't read).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:God help us! We are f-ed!!

The means by which we attracted significant numbers of achievement to the east side is being deconstructed. These changes are seismic and central office staff doesn't have the expertise or staffing numbers to construct new programs of excellence across the county. CO staff doesn't understand what they are destroying.

Bye bye Niki Hazel. Bye bye Thomas Taylor. Four of the BOE members were leaving anyway. As for the rest, who vote for this debacle: bye bye.

Yang is leaving...who else has said so?

She'll only leave if she gets in the county council. We need to vote out all the older BOE members and current and some future county council.

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

I think you're the one who doesn't have kids in MCPS.
Troll

I do and that's why we taught it at home and in MS/HS we have math and english tutors as the curiculum is terrible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:God help us! We are f-ed!!

The means by which we attracted significant numbers of achievement to the east side is being deconstructed. These changes are seismic and central office staff doesn't have the expertise or staffing numbers to construct new programs of excellence across the county. CO staff doesn't understand what they are destroying.

Bye bye Niki Hazel. Bye bye Thomas Taylor. Four of the BOE members were leaving anyway. As for the rest, who vote for this debacle: bye bye.

Yang is leaving...who else has said so?

She'll only leave if she gets in the county council. We need to vote out all the older BOE members and current and some future county council.

Yang is running for county council instead of running for reelection to the BOE.

[Anonymous]

No matter what they teach in school, the parent will need to supplement something at home. Period.

The curriculum keeps changing and siblings will get rather different experiences. I supplemented one with grammar at home, but next kid a few yrs later got it in school, done well. Math improved over the yrs too - Eureka is excellent and so is whatever they use in MS.

I have had to supplement writing.

The only time I didn't have to supplement is when one DC went to Global Ecology magnet at PHS. Now that is a stellar program - arguably the most unique in the country, certainly in the county. Solid teachers, solid teaching, a true gifted education. Complaints are minimal about this program and praise is high.
I don't know as much about Blair or RM, but the PHS Global could be an example of how a gifted magnet program should be implemented.

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

I have two kids in MCPS.

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

I think you're the one who doesn't have kids in MCPS.
Troll

I do and that's why we taught it at home and in MS/HS we have math and english tutors as the curiculum is terrible.

I can see so many errors in your writing.

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

I think you're the one who doesn't have kids in MCPS.
Troll

I do and that's why we taught it at home and in MS/HS we have math and english tutors as the curiculum is terrible.

I can see so many errors in your writing.

Dp, no dog in this fight but I hate posts like yours. So childish.

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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?

MCPS does not teach grammar or spelling. You must not have kids in MCPS.

Yes it does. You must not have kids in ES.

Maybe at your school, but not at ours. They didn't teach spelling, grammar, math facts, or vocabulary. They handed the kids a dictionary and said look it up (and some of those kids couldn't read).

You are either trolling or you don't like your kids. Which one is it?

[Anonymous]

I would not trust a magnet MCPS student with flipping by burgers.