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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like that one of the board’s aim is for every high school to offer 1–2 programs open to regional students.

Been advocating this for a while and glad to see it’s caught on![/quote]

I’m fine with that but don’t kill the flagship magnet programs [/quote]

If they replicate the flagships, keeping the rigor & breadth (within chosen programs, not necessarily regionally replicating the breadth of all current HS magnet programs) but making the programing available to more students and in closer proximity, there would be no need for flagships, per se.  There are enough amongst the ~12k students per year to fill magnet seats regionally while keeping the high curricular standard.

If they regionalize without that underlying commitment to rigor/breadth, allowing "local pull" from the regional populations to determine the breadth & rigor at each regional site, then they would be doing a disservice to the very population they purport to support.  The regions with greatest wealth would become de facto "flagships."  That insidious prejudice of low expectation, ignoring obligation to individual ability-commensurate opportunity and fueled by the self-reinforcing reality of relative ignorance of academic possibilities, has ruled for quite long enough, thank you.[/quote]

I have zero confidence in MCPS in academic excellence. Their goal is equity, not excellence.  This is reflected in many aspects for many years.[/quote]

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