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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh![/quote]

Math team is a student club.  If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests. [/quote]

Not true. We have kids into math at our school. We do pretty well at Science Olympiad and Robotics competitions. But there's no teacher sponsor for math club/team anymore (yes I have asked repeatedly). [/quote]

I don't think we have ever done math counts as a school before. It's lack of staff time. The science Olympiad teacher's done it for a decade; the robotics team is run by a parent actually. When I asked the department head, she asked me if I'd like to run math club/team! Lol. I am actually considering it for next year actually because I *am* in stem, and I did do math competitions as a kid. So not totally ignorant but not at all a teacher and wouldn't really know how to start. [/quote]

https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

This is not a problem at all. Lots of clubs are run by parents and high school students. This isn't 30 rowdy kids who don't want to be there. It's 4-20 kids who want to participate.

Annoying MCPS rules means that a teacher is required for on campus activities. But you can run the club on Zoom too. Not ideal, but it's something. 
Beyond that you can run the whole thing yourself and it only takes time.
You don't even need the school's support at all if you run the club on Zoom or at someone's house or at a  library, and sign up yourself.  
 
Mathcounts will send you a whole year worth of club training materials in box. In a pinch, the coach doesn't even have to understand the math.
If you can round up some high schoolers to help out, that's great. (SSL hours!)

It does cost some money, which requires someone at the school to apply for reimbursement or for the club members to pay or to ask Mathcounts for financial aid. If you post to DCUM asking for funding for your Mathcounts team fees, I and others will happily pay. 
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if only more students were interested at these schools they wouldn't have trouble finding a sponsor.[/quote]

If only all schools made extracurriculars like Mathcounts equally well known every year, they wouldn't have trouble finding at least some interested students to blow a hole in that slanted argument.  Chicken and egg.[/quote]

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