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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If that is the true site i'm completely bummed. This county HAS TO improve the offerings. For K we have #185 for Spanish Immersion and #84 for French Immersion. [/quote]

This is such a bratty response. “HAS TO?!?” What do you think you’re entitled to? Public education? Surprise! You already have it. Go to your neighborhood school. PG County can improve in so many ways, but it already offers way more than most school districts across the country. Be thankful for what you have. Or, you know, continue whining that your precious may have to go to school with the poors.[/quote]

Excuse me what? Do you realize how ridiculous this response is? PG county has the highest taxes of any MD county and yet the schools are by and large subpar. It is not "bratty" to want better options. I don't care that my neighborhood school is "poor", since logically if it's my school I obviously live in the catchment area. I do care that there are repeated behavior issues and incidents amongst students and staff members that are not adequately addressed. So no, my son can't go there and furthermore, he won't. There are only two "specialty" program schools (I'm not counting Pullen because the performing arts aspect doesn't start until 3rd grade) that you are eligible for in each section of the county. Each and every year they have waiting lists in the thousands. If you don't think that's an issue, that's fine, however, I do. I pay taxes and I'm entitled to want more for what I'm paying out than a failing school option. [/quote].

They do not have waitlists in the thousands.  Maya Angelou French Immersion and Chaves and Overlook Spanish Immersion had slots for K at the end of last year and they reopened the lottery.  Most of the elementary TAG centers had open slots at all grade levels.  
The Montessori schools have long waitlists because people want free Pre-K.

PGCPS spends a ton of money on specialty elementary school programs and bussing those kids all over the county.  If they moved that money to local elementary schools, the issues you cite might be able to be addressed.  It is a cycle that the county has backed us into that can't easily be addressed.

I think that if they want to expand the Specialty programs the county's priority should be to expand Pullen's Middle School Program, expand Hyattsville MS's Arts program (or open another one),  offer Middle School IB program/s that are open to all students in the county and add a TAG middle school center to the Northern part of the county.  These are the specialty programs that have the longest waitlists and often the local schools are not an option.

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