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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher not a parent, and I believe there should be differentiation for gifted kids, but here are my predictions:

Admin and counselors at places like Cabin John and Pyle get DELUGED with calls/emails from parents who think their child should be in the pilot classes. “We wanted to be close to home so we didn’t apply to the magnet, but my child could have gotten in and therefore they should be in that section.” There probably are way more qualified kids at a huge school like Pyle than there are spots in those classes.

Teachers get ticked off that they have five minutes to learn yet another curriculum, knowing that many parents will be displeased with the rollout and they’ll be the ones to bear the brunt of that.

Mega scheduling problems—yet to be determined, sure to happen. Tons of annoyed counselors upset that they too have yet another thing to deal with. Hopefully that master scheduling training will be done well.

Totally irritated principals who have disdain for the “pushy” gifted community who think their children are “special snowflakes”—and who’ve been trying to head off this type of differentiation for years. They now will have to admit defeat on the matter, at least temporarily.

It won’t be enough. No matter what, it won’t be enough. And there will be a lot of unhappy parents whose kids don’t get to take these classes. And so...

Eventually everyone will get to take the magnet-ish classes, and we’ll all be back to where we started. ?
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+1 I'm a parent, and this is pretty much what I had stated before on this forum about how this is going to roll.  I feel badly for the teachers because they will not have much time to learn the new curriculum.  2.0 rollout was bad with lack of training.  I can't see how this will be any different.  When was the new curriculum created? Has it been finalized and reviewed?

I'm glad that MCPS acknowledges that something like this is needed, and that they are willing to try. But, I feel this was really poor planning on their part. If they knew in advance that they were going to change the admissions criteria from magnet to look more strongly at "cohort" (Metis report came out a couple of years ago), then they should've had all of this being developed simultaneously in advance. Did they really think parents wouldn't be upset over the changes in criteria and would just happily have their kids go to the home MS with no chance for a challenging curriculum?  They seem out of touch with the populace of the parents of magnet cohort.[/quote]

well said... another poor management example of MCPS....[/quote]

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