Experiences with Early College at MC?

[Anonymous]

Daughter is in it right now and very happy. Do you have specific things you want to know more about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have more recent experience with Early College at MC? Recommend or not?

I work in STEM at MC and love working with the early college students. Our classes usually have EC students only, and the students seem to become good friends with eachother over the semester/year. They are also some of our brightest students.

[Anonymous]

My son will be applying next year for EC. He's AuDHD and currently in the bridge program. He needs small classes AND rigor. Bridge offers the small classes but he's bored to tears. MC will offer the small cohort plus the college level courses.

[Anonymous]

Careful. The old MVA families want to get rid of this program so they can continue to isolate their children at taxpayer expense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Careful. The old MVA families want to get rid of this program so they can continue to isolate their children at taxpayer expense.

Yawn. How is virtual ok for MC but MCPS? Why is it ok that MCPS can pay for virtual classes through MC but not directly which would be cheaper? Oh wait, you must be the BOE president who works for MC doing a money grab and mismanaging and trying to justify her behavior. Don't worry, we'll be getting rid of you soon enough too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Careful. The old MVA families want to get rid of this program so they can continue to isolate their children at taxpayer expense.

And, those doing MC virtually at the tax payers expense are isolating their children so by your comments that program should be terminated. MCPS is tasked with educating kids through HS. We should not be paying for college classes when we have budget issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Careful. The old MVA families want to get rid of this program so they can continue to isolate their children at taxpayer expense.

And, those doing MC virtually at the tax payers expense are isolating their children so by your comments that program should be terminated. MCPS is tasked with educating kids through HS. We should not be paying for college classes when we have budget issues.

Thank you for that confirmation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Careful. The old MVA families want to get rid of this program so they can continue to isolate their children at taxpayer expense.

Yawn. How is virtual ok for MC but MCPS? Why is it ok that MCPS can pay for virtual classes through MC but not directly which would be cheaper? Oh wait, you must be the BOE president who works for MC doing a money grab and mismanaging and trying to justify her behavior. Don't worry, we'll be getting rid of you soon enough too!

Early college is not available virtually except the few classes that occasionally occur during the four week winter term.

[Anonymous]

We can't pay for everything. Right now we have a limited virtual program for students with medical needs that preclude them from attending school. Some former MVA parents that have kids without such needs would lime to defund programs allowing MCPS to take college courses in order to create an expanded program for children that otherwise could go to school. If you want the college programs to remain, remain vigulent against their lobbying. It's a very small group, but a few of them have been lobbying the new board members very hard.

[Anonymous]

MCPS's college programs serve a much larger number of students than MVA. Don't let them take MC courses away from students.

[Anonymous]

Go away anti-MVA trolls.

MVA does not have a meaningful cost. It is cheaper than supporting students in MCPS school buildings. Same for MC.

And regardless, no one is moving funding between MVA and MC, which serve different populations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go away anti-MVA trolls.

MVA does not have a meaningful cost. It is cheaper than supporting students in MCPS school buildings. Same for MC.

And regardless, no one is moving funding between MVA and MC, which serve different populations.

MVA supporters want to end college programs to fund MVA. That was made clear a few posts ago.

And no, MVA isn't cheaper. It's an entirely additional set of costs without any associated savings in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - My niece and nephew went through the program. Both went onto UMCP and now are each respectively in graduate school in in-demand fields.

The snobby subtext the PP either espouses or alludes to is it’s widely looked down upon by wealthier schools as a program for poor kids. This isn't true - my brother and SIL are well off -but MoCo folks like to keep people who deviate from the academic norm in check if they aren’t at a W school. That stigma keeps kids out of the program.

And here are other great things about Early College at MC: likely better teaching and small class sizes. Students can get basic classes completed in a better supported classroom in Early College than they will get (and pay far more for) in a 300+ student class at UMDCP with inexperienced teaching assistants doing most of the instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can't pay for everything. Right now we have a limited virtual program for students with medical needs that preclude them from attending school. Some former MVA parents that have kids without such needs would lime to defund programs allowing MCPS to take college courses in order to create an expanded program for children that otherwise could go to school. If you want the college programs to remain, remain vigulent against their lobbying. It's a very small group, but a few of them have been lobbying the new board members very hard.

You realize about 1/3 the MVA families left MCPS so that's a funding loss for MCPS so now that takes away from your kids needs. The limited virtual program is a joke. They don't have enough teachers, some of the teachers are not licensed teachers and just low-paid tutors/para's, and its basically two hours a week per class and not a full real curriculum. It just started so kids missed 2.5 months of school. These kids deserve a proper education. Its far cheaper to educate kids virtually. Yes, we can pay for everything. We are one of the highest per pupil school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go away anti-MVA trolls.

MVA does not have a meaningful cost. It is cheaper than supporting students in MCPS school buildings. Same for MC.

And regardless, no one is moving funding between MVA and MC, which serve different populations.

MVA supporters want to end college programs to fund MVA. That was made clear a few posts ago.

And no, MVA isn't cheaper. It's an entirely additional set of costs without any associated savings in schools.

Of course its cheaper and it gets kids out of overcrowded schools. Less staff, no physical school, no bussing, larger class sizes, and no activities. The money should follow the student so the homeschools should not be getting money for kids they don't serve.

MC is only there because it was failing and the BOE president heavily funded it through MCPS to make up for the shortfall.