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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Don't keep interested kids from a class! This is public education, so the "worthy" idea is quite troubling. Who says a kid that isn't accelerated in math won't someday become a scientist? [/quote]

Ideals cost money and require the institution to care about those ideals. You're missing both those aspects in MCPS. My son was in compacted math and it wasn't very challenging. Many more kids that couldn't get in would have done fine. MCPS is only allowing a small percentage of kids to take it. HGC is another example. 3% get in yet over 40% test as GT. The other 37% get stuck with lackluster 2.0. Why? MCPS lacks the planning, resource allocation and political clout to fund the schools in a manner that keep programs available, grows facilities to meet increase in growth, and class sizes low. Test scores count and the more bright kids get pushed down into the pool of lower performing kids, the better the school looks based on the scores. A teacher with 35 kids in Biology and limited labs where a good number can learn it on their own without help so she can focus on the lower performing kids is a win for MCPS.

If any kid with an interest and willingness to work gets to take AP Biology they have to build more labs and facilities. Not going to happen and MCPS doesn't care if a kid might become a scientist someday. This isn't their problem. Their problem is shuffling around resources and scoring will on the future PARCC. [/quote]

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