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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bring magnet functions and quantum physics to my W school and I’ll stay home.

Rather than bussing anyone all over the county, they need to offer the same courses at all the HS.[/quote]

This. But you know they will never do that because if they do, then like you said the rich schools will have kids will stay in their home schools and the poor schools will not be able to fill these classes, not to mention the school rating will not go up and need I say anything about their state level test scores.

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With the constrained budget I think there is less MCPS interest in bussing.  They simply can’t afford it. My guess is the boundary study prioritizes limiting busing and keeping kids close to home unless capacity is an issue.    And, I suspect more of the upper level classes end up being at Montgomery college as dual enrollment or early college. This saves MCPS money since they are not on the hook for health insurance or pension for these teachers.  Basically it is a much cheaper way to offer kids these classes especially at schools that could not fill a full class in one of these subjects. But, it would be tricky to get rid of the really accelerated magnets like SMACS since those do tend to pull up test scores at lower performing schools, [/quote]

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