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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its amazing what they can waste money on and then choose to get rid of the VA that benefits some students.[/quote]

There are very few students left in virtual. It would be far more efficient to have a state-wide virtual option.[/quote]

+1. But the VA proponents always come up with 100 reasons why that isn't a good idea.[/quote]

We do not have an educational services at the state level so, if they get rid of it, there will be no virtual program.  Plenty of other things to cut, starting with the kid museum.  Why is mcps funding nonprofits.  [/quote]

Maybe if more parents were advocating for it, they would.[/quote]

The state is not in the education business.  the county is.  No one is going to advocate it for the state level but you.  So, please go ahead.  [/quote]

Plenty of states offer virtual programs at the state level.  If you want to keep putting all your eggs in the MCPS basket, go ahead, maybe your kids are close to graduating and it doesn't matter for you.  But for the sake of younger kids, if you were truly invested in a long-term virtual program I would not depend on MCPS to provide it.[/quote]

That's fine what other states do but their school setup is much different than ours so it's a moot point.  I don't expect anything from MCPS.  The problem is there isn't a private equivalent except for a few programs that are super competitive like Stanford, and those aren't MCPS-approved for graduation.  The programs they have for virtual are homeschooling programs, which is fine for younger kids but not for kids in HS with higher-level courses.  I could easily homeschool for elementary but not for MS or HS.  And, Stanford is really expensive, so not an option for us.

If you don't like virtual, fine, don't send your kids but why block other families from using it if it works for their families?[/quote]

Not PP but I wonder if MCPS would expand what it would approve for graduation if they did away with the county VA?  My cousin’s DC in Florida was literally taking AP classes online when undergoing cancel treatments, there must be more options out there than what MCPS accepts right now.

+1 to getting rid of kid museum funding! What a waste.  [/quote]

FL uses a different model- it’s a statewide program. So they can offer more classes.  There has been more of a push for VA students to enroll in MC classes instead of AP (not necessarily a bad thing).[/quote]

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