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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the program analysis plan, here is what will be going away:

-Downcounty Consortium
-Northeast Consortium
-Any current countywide program that selects from the whole county such as: the Science, Math and Computer Science programs at Blair and Poolesville, the IM program at Richard Montgomery, the Visual Arts Program at Einstein, and Global Ecology at Poolesville.

People need to understand that these are now slated to go away. Current 8th graders can apply, and after that they’re over. You may agree or disagree with this change, but you need to know. See the link below for FAQs.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/academic-programs-analysis/faqs/[/quote]

Can we try to keep our terminology clear so everyone is on the same page?

DCC and NEC would go away.

SMCS, RMIB, and VAC would still exist but as regional programs accepting kids from a smaller number of schools.  That is absolutely a big change and should be acknowledged and talked about as such, but it is confusing and inaccurate to say they're "going away" in the same sense that DCC and NEC will go away.

Global Ecology is TBD.  They will have something called "Global Ecology" within the Poolesville SMCS, but it's unclear whether it will be anything like Global Ecology as we know it or not.[/quote]

I'd also add that while DCC and NEC are going away, they are being replaced by other consortia. The application/lottery process will not be identical to the DCC/NEC model, but that model always worked better in theory than in practice anyway. Under the new model, there will be either interest-based or criteria based models within six different consortia, and kids will have the option to apply/lottery into those. [/quote]

No, they will not be replaced by other consortia.  All consortia will be gone.  Yea, there will be regional programs that kids can apply to, but that is not at all the same as a consortium model, where kids can pick the school that is the best fit for them (based on any number of factors: type and/or qualify of academic classes offered, type and/or quality of electives offered, extracurriculars, school size, school culture, physical facilities, where their friends are going, or whatever else the particular kid prefers)... yes of course not all kids get their first choice but a lot of them do and many more get their second choice. That is wildly different than "either go to your home school or apply to a special program at another school and hope that you get in and that you like it, and if not, back to your home school you go!"

If this goes through, consortia will be gone and there will be nothing to replace them that will resemble them at all.  Special programs are an entirely different thing.[/quote]

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