Taylor/MCPS/BOE have managed to piss off so many school communities at once

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Anonymous wrote:Add to the list MCCPTA and XMinds/Austim organizations. And probably safe to say that the OIG is not a fan.

MCCPTA is dcum, so you can add dcum to the list.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here, Einstein cluster parent and I despise Taylor

Yes, we know... you put it on every thread. Wait to see what the Einstein offerings are, given that you aren't satisfied currently, maybe it will be better.

I am not the poster you think I am. Einstein offers more courses than many other high schools. I still despise Taylor and most of my neighbors are livid about the regional program model.

What are you talking about? No, they don’t and while they advertise some classes on the course bulletin they don’t actually happen. The have very little in terms of stem. They have very little in some of the arts which is supposed to be what they specialize in. With the reduction of students, and the new forced academies, things will be cut, and the only things that can be are stem and arts.

The problem is Taylor and CO still don’t understand or refuse to recognize that course bulletin is nothing closer than what is actually offered on the plate. Their course bulletin catelog published in this January was totally useless BS, and they make every so-called “improvements” based on that piece of BS.

The courses listed in this report for each high school are courses that students were enrolled in during Spring 2025

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OLO/Resources/Files/2026_Reports/OLOReport%202026-2.pdf

This is not accurate. Some of the courses aren’t offered.

Exactly. This is what HS principals or APs provided to CO, not what was actually offered in 2025. CO has very weak control over principals.

In other words, we should trust anecdotes from anonymous DCUM posters rather than data from OLO?

Look at the actual course offerings at the school level. Our school lists extra AP classes and electives but they don't offer them when you go to sign up.

Please cite the specific errors you are alleging in the OLO report.

Its been posted in many threads. The BOE, central office and Taylor probably read this site and don't care, same as principals.

If you don't have anything specific to cite, you're just trolling.

Clearly you don’t have kids in Mcps.

I've had kids in MCPS for 18 years. I've seen the OLO report, and don't know what you're claiming is inaccurate.

You do realize what happens at individual schools varies and while your kids have great course offerings, some of our kids schools don’t have that and what is being said is offered is not. Stay in your bubble.

That is in fact the conclusion of the OLO report, which you are here disparaging for unspecific reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here, Einstein cluster parent and I despise Taylor

Yes, we know... you put it on every thread. Wait to see what the Einstein offerings are, given that you aren't satisfied currently, maybe it will be better.

I am not the poster you think I am. Einstein offers more courses than many other high schools. I still despise Taylor and most of my neighbors are livid about the regional program model.

What are you talking about? No, they don’t and while they advertise some classes on the course bulletin they don’t actually happen. The have very little in terms of stem. They have very little in some of the arts which is supposed to be what they specialize in. With the reduction of students, and the new forced academies, things will be cut, and the only things that can be are stem and arts.

The problem is Taylor and CO still don’t understand or refuse to recognize that course bulletin is nothing closer than what is actually offered on the plate. Their course bulletin catelog published in this January was totally useless BS, and they make every so-called “improvements” based on that piece of BS.

The courses listed in this report for each high school are courses that students were enrolled in during Spring 2025

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OLO/Resources/Files/2026_Reports/OLOReport%202026-2.pdf

This is not accurate. Some of the courses aren’t offered.

Exactly. This is what HS principals or APs provided to CO, not what was actually offered in 2025. CO has very weak control over principals.

In other words, we should trust anecdotes from anonymous DCUM posters rather than data from OLO?

Look at the actual course offerings at the school level. Our school lists extra AP classes and electives but they don't offer them when you go to sign up.

Please cite the specific errors you are alleging in the OLO report.

Its been posted in many threads. The BOE, central office and Taylor probably read this site and don't care, same as principals.

If you don't have anything specific to cite, you're just trolling.

Clearly you don’t have kids in Mcps.

I've had kids in MCPS for 18 years. I've seen the OLO report, and don't know what you're claiming is inaccurate.

You do realize what happens at individual schools varies and while your kids have great course offerings, some of our kids schools don’t have that and what is being said is offered is not. Stay in your bubble.

That is in fact the conclusion of the OLO report, which you are here disparaging for unspecific reasons.

They list classes in our course guide but when our kids go to sign up, the classes don't actually exist. The principal claims they cannot allot the staffing to those classes and its funding. You are lucky if this isn't happening at your kids schools and they have a wide variety of classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Add to the list MCCPTA and XMinds/Austim organizations. And probably safe to say that the OIG is not a fan.

MCCPTA is dcum, so you can add dcum to the list.

The few leaders of MCCPTA who have been around for years, especially the tech and the gifted folks have no clue and are self serving.

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Anonymous wrote:Add to the list MCCPTA and XMinds/Austim organizations. And probably safe to say that the OIG is not a fan.

MCCPTA is dcum, so you can add dcum to the list.

The few leaders of MCCPTA who have been around for years, especially the tech and the gifted folks have no clue and are self serving.

I just think that they will post their real viewpoints on this forum because they can’t be anonymous on their listserv.

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Anonymous wrote:Add to the list MCCPTA and XMinds/Austim organizations. And probably safe to say that the OIG is not a fan.

MCCPTA is dcum, so you can add dcum to the list.

The few leaders of MCCPTA who have been around for years, especially the tech and the gifted folks have no clue and are self serving.

The tech committee leaders are new, so I have no idea what you're talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here, Einstein cluster parent and I despise Taylor

Yes, we know... you put it on every thread. Wait to see what the Einstein offerings are, given that you aren't satisfied currently, maybe it will be better.

I am not the poster you think I am. Einstein offers more courses than many other high schools. I still despise Taylor and most of my neighbors are livid about the regional program model.

What are you talking about? No, they don’t and while they advertise some classes on the course bulletin they don’t actually happen. The have very little in terms of stem. They have very little in some of the arts which is supposed to be what they specialize in. With the reduction of students, and the new forced academies, things will be cut, and the only things that can be are stem and arts.

The problem is Taylor and CO still don’t understand or refuse to recognize that course bulletin is nothing closer than what is actually offered on the plate. Their course bulletin catelog published in this January was totally useless BS, and they make every so-called “improvements” based on that piece of BS.

The courses listed in this report for each high school are courses that students were enrolled in during Spring 2025

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OLO/Resources/Files/2026_Reports/OLOReport%202026-2.pdf

This is not accurate. Some of the courses aren’t offered.

Exactly. This is what HS principals or APs provided to CO, not what was actually offered in 2025. CO has very weak control over principals.

In other words, we should trust anecdotes from anonymous DCUM posters rather than data from OLO?

Look at the actual course offerings at the school level. Our school lists extra AP classes and electives but they don't offer them when you go to sign up.

Please cite the specific errors you are alleging in the OLO report.

Its been posted in many threads. The BOE, central office and Taylor probably read this site and don't care, same as principals.

If you don't have anything specific to cite, you're just trolling.

Clearly you don’t have kids in Mcps.

I've had kids in MCPS for 18 years. I've seen the OLO report, and don't know what you're claiming is inaccurate.

You do realize what happens at individual schools varies and while your kids have great course offerings, some of our kids schools don’t have that and what is being said is offered is not. Stay in your bubble.

That is in fact the conclusion of the OLO report, which you are here disparaging for unspecific reasons.

They list classes in our course guide but when our kids go to sign up, the classes don't actually exist. The principal claims they cannot allot the staffing to those classes and its funding. You are lucky if this isn't happening at your kids schools and they have a wide variety of classes.

OK, but the OLO report was based on classes offered during Spring 2025.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here, Einstein cluster parent and I despise Taylor

Yes, we know... you put it on every thread. Wait to see what the Einstein offerings are, given that you aren't satisfied currently, maybe it will be better.

I am not the poster you think I am. Einstein offers more courses than many other high schools. I still despise Taylor and most of my neighbors are livid about the regional program model.

What are you talking about? No, they don’t and while they advertise some classes on the course bulletin they don’t actually happen. The have very little in terms of stem. They have very little in some of the arts which is supposed to be what they specialize in. With the reduction of students, and the new forced academies, things will be cut, and the only things that can be are stem and arts.

The problem is Taylor and CO still don’t understand or refuse to recognize that course bulletin is nothing closer than what is actually offered on the plate. Their course bulletin catelog published in this January was totally useless BS, and they make every so-called “improvements” based on that piece of BS.

The courses listed in this report for each high school are courses that students were enrolled in during Spring 2025

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OLO/Resources/Files/2026_Reports/OLOReport%202026-2.pdf

This is not accurate. Some of the courses aren’t offered.

Exactly. This is what HS principals or APs provided to CO, not what was actually offered in 2025. CO has very weak control over principals.

In other words, we should trust anecdotes from anonymous DCUM posters rather than data from OLO?

Look at the actual course offerings at the school level. Our school lists extra AP classes and electives but they don't offer them when you go to sign up.

Please cite the specific errors you are alleging in the OLO report.

Its been posted in many threads. The BOE, central office and Taylor probably read this site and don't care, same as principals.

If you don't have anything specific to cite, you're just trolling.

Clearly you don’t have kids in Mcps.

I've had kids in MCPS for 18 years. I've seen the OLO report, and don't know what you're claiming is inaccurate.

You do realize what happens at individual schools varies and while your kids have great course offerings, some of our kids schools don’t have that and what is being said is offered is not. Stay in your bubble.

That is in fact the conclusion of the OLO report, which you are here disparaging for unspecific reasons.

They list classes in our course guide but when our kids go to sign up, the classes don't actually exist. The principal claims they cannot allot the staffing to those classes and its funding. You are lucky if this isn't happening at your kids schools and they have a wide variety of classes.

OK, but the OLO report was based on classes offered during Spring 2025.

Yes, for our school, its listed offering classes, which we don't actually have. They are looking at the course guide, not actual classes.

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Parent of two current students here. I think he's making hard choices quickly in a system that has an overwhelming amount of challenges. Do I love every solution? No. Do I think the program analysis, for example, could have used more community input? Yes, but I see why they wanted to get it done with the boundary studies to synergize on those changes, otherwise you'd end up with a ton of additional modifications in a couple of years to boundaries, programs, etc. Sometimes you have to get things done on a schedule and move them forward. The system doesn't have the money to be going around and around making several levels of iterative changes over multiple years. I like MCPS and think my kids are getting a good education but you have to have blinders on not to recognize that the district as a whole needs some serious changes if we are going to manage over the next ten to twenty years.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here, Einstein cluster parent and I despise Taylor

Yes, we know... you put it on every thread. Wait to see what the Einstein offerings are, given that you aren't satisfied currently, maybe it will be better.

I am not the poster you think I am. Einstein offers more courses than many other high schools. I still despise Taylor and most of my neighbors are livid about the regional program model.

What are you talking about? No, they don’t and while they advertise some classes on the course bulletin they don’t actually happen. The have very little in terms of stem. They have very little in some of the arts which is supposed to be what they specialize in. With the reduction of students, and the new forced academies, things will be cut, and the only things that can be are stem and arts.

The problem is Taylor and CO still don’t understand or refuse to recognize that course bulletin is nothing closer than what is actually offered on the plate. Their course bulletin catelog published in this January was totally useless BS, and they make every so-called “improvements” based on that piece of BS.

The courses listed in this report for each high school are courses that students were enrolled in during Spring 2025

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OLO/Resources/Files/2026_Reports/OLOReport%202026-2.pdf

This is not accurate. Some of the courses aren’t offered.

Exactly. This is what HS principals or APs provided to CO, not what was actually offered in 2025. CO has very weak control over principals.

In other words, we should trust anecdotes from anonymous DCUM posters rather than data from OLO?

Look at the actual course offerings at the school level. Our school lists extra AP classes and electives but they don't offer them when you go to sign up.

Please cite the specific errors you are alleging in the OLO report.

Its been posted in many threads. The BOE, central office and Taylor probably read this site and don't care, same as principals.

If you don't have anything specific to cite, you're just trolling.

Clearly you don’t have kids in Mcps.

I've had kids in MCPS for 18 years. I've seen the OLO report, and don't know what you're claiming is inaccurate.

You do realize what happens at individual schools varies and while your kids have great course offerings, some of our kids schools don’t have that and what is being said is offered is not. Stay in your bubble.

That is in fact the conclusion of the OLO report, which you are here disparaging for unspecific reasons.

They list classes in our course guide but when our kids go to sign up, the classes don't actually exist. The principal claims they cannot allot the staffing to those classes and its funding. You are lucky if this isn't happening at your kids schools and they have a wide variety of classes.

OK, but the OLO report was based on classes offered during Spring 2025.

Yes, for our school, its listed offering classes, which we don't actually have. They are looking at the course guide, not actual classes.

I believe there was one section based on the course guides, but most of it was based on actual enrollment data. "MCPS provided enrollment by course and school for the Spring of 2025, which is the data
summarized."