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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the down county consortium, a student at Blair who can't get into a magnet, could apply for the engineering academy at Wheaton? I wonder if academies will still exist? Will students outside that school in a region be able to apply for them like a student currently can do in the DCC?[/quote]

Isn't the Wheaton engineering program a criteria-based/magnet program that students apply for?  If so I think it would fall under the same umbrella as all the other academic programs being discussed, where it is open to other students in the region as a regional program if it makes the cut. (I wonder if they will make the Wheaton engineering program into the SMCS option for its region, with some tweaks to make it more like Blair/Poolesville?  As a popular program drawing students to a high-FARMS school I doubt they'd want to get rid of it entirely so that seems like the most likely option. And Wheaton and Blair are close enough that they could maybe share some of the staff for the high-level elective classes or even have kids travel between the two schools to take classes together.  Or are the two programs so different that wouldn't make any sense?)

And then there will still be the various local or signature programs only for students at specific schools which are sometimes called academies. Those will presumably continue to only be for students at the specific school (unless a school's local program matches up well enough with one of the regional program types that MCPS decides to convert it into a regional program to take advantage of the staff and expertise there, which is probably a smart move in some cases ). I guess there is a chance the Wheaton engineering program would turn into that instead.[/quote]

No.

Wheaton has an engineering magnet that has about thirty kids.

Then there is the engineering academy which has a very similar curriculum and is taught by the same teachers. Anyone who goes to Wheaton (including my Einstein DCC kids who ranked Wheaton first) can go to the engineering academy. [/quote]

Ah gotcha.  So the engineering academy is basically a local/signature program only open to students enrolled at Wheaton like many other high schools have, but because Wheaton's in the DCC it feels a little different because it's a reason some DCC kids from other areas pick Wheaton, is that right?

In that case I imagine that in the future with the disappearance of the DCC it would remain as a local program for only Wheaton kids, unless MCPS decides to build off it to create the region's STEM/SMCS regional program.[/quote]

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