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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to hear what deranged level of course offerings should be offered at every school.[/quote]

How about offering the same exact classes at all schools.  You are ok with this because your kids have access.  You bash other parents whose kids don’t have access why?   You are the problem.  [/quote]

I think your child’s needs should be met, but I don’t think you are being realistic or reasonable in thinking you can buy a home in an under resourced school pyramid and expect that your outlier child, who is not a family on FARMS or an EML student, should get bespoke treatment/allocation of school resources when the majority of your school needs different classes and remediation. I think mcps should provide you transportation to mc or to a nearby high school so you can access those classes they can’t provide at yours. I don’t think your under resourced over crowded school should have to cater to a very small subset. [/quote]

I think that's a mis-reading of the student population at these high FARMS schools. It's not like 90% are below grade level. There's a substantial cohort of able learners, and they should be able to have their needs met at their home school.

Honestly, this is perhaps a topic for another thread, but the simplest way to do that IMO is less about super-advanced AP or post-AP classes, but to go back to cohorted Grade 9-10 English and Social Studies classes so that teachers aren't scrambling trying to teach to such a wide range of abilities in one classroom, an approach that I don't think helps students at any level. [/quote]

Yes - DCC parent here who wants MCPS to eliminate all these special programs and focus on: same course offerings in each school; cohorted by ability. There is a decent sized chunk of high performing kids in my zoned high school but special programs incentivize them to leave whereas cohorts would incentivize them to stay with their similarly academically-abled friends they’ve grown up with. Why can’t we do this? I don’t care if there’s only one AP Calculus class in my school and four of them in Whitman as long as any kids in my school who qualify to take AP Calculus can do so without having to take a 45 minute bus ride each way.[/quote]

I agree. I never wanted my kid on a longer bus ride than needed. The MVC lady will never be satisfied because all that matters is MVC to her but really cohorted English in grade 9 would benefit massive numbers of students. It doesn't cost money for new teachers to cohort based on reading and writing levels.[/quote]

But it can get a school and teachers into hot water if it looks like the black kids are being tracked to the lower cohort. Maybe some objective criteria independent of the school itself gets used to allay this issue. [/quote]

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