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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?[/quote]

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.  [/quote]

No they don't.  These are elective courses.  [/quote]

Schools can only offer so many classes.  So, they are trading one class for another.  We are told we have to go to MC and we have to provide transportation come junior year.  Not happening.[/quote]

Schools cannot trade out core courses for elective courses.  And they can’t force a student to go to MC.  AP classes are not core courses.  Various electives are not core courses.  Core classes are those like English 10,11,12, Alg 2,etc.  So while they are trading elective classes it’s likely the ones for which there are the most interest.

Also for DE courses at NC, they provide transportation to the MC campuses.[/quote]

So, what do students do when their school does not offer math classes appropriate for them junior and senior year as they stop after calculus?   They don’t provide transportation for one class.  [/quote]

You take an available math course or equivalent in your school.  Be it Statistics or a Computer Science course.  You plan to split Calculus into two years with Calc AB and Calc BC thus ensure the student has a great foundation in the material and will be able to pass College placement exams.  You work with a counselor to see if a higher course is offered at a nearby HS that the student can get public transportation to and get a free period in between to be able to make the trip.  You work with the counselor to determine how many students have the same need to understand why a higher course is not being selected to be offered at your school.[/quote]

Computer science is separate and does not count for math classes.  There is no easy public transportation and transportation should be mcps problem.  They scream equity but there is not any.  No, my kid should not have to slow down math and make them less competitive.  Mcps should offer it at all schools.  Or, provide it virtually.  [/quote]

None of this, none of it, has anything to do with the OP. Whether or not a kid at Blair can take a one-semester pilot course on Jewish identity is as unrelated to your issue as a complaint about the lunch items would be. They are completely separate. If you want to start a separate thread about the lack of equity in math offerings around MCPS, the "add topic" function is right there. [/quote]

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