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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All this arguing for giving an ultra-tiny minority of students some costly classes at taxpayer expense. Those well-resourced families should go private or do dual enrollment.

Expand access to the six regions, or eliminate the programs and just offer AP/IB at each HS.[/quote]

The cost of bussing due water downed programs is not worth it.  End all the magnets.  Everyone goes to their assigned school.  I am sorry to see Blair end it's run but it does not align with the current county philosophy.  [/quote]

The problem that we found is our school offers very few Ap clases and for smart kids, we don't even have enough math classes to take for the graduaiton requierments.  Only the W schools, Blair and Wheaton have advanced classes so you'd need to fix that.[/quote]

This is an issue in multiple schools.  The problem is not kids who can take the classes, it’s school leadership not selecting to offer the classes and then not encouraging staff to want to teach these classes.  Or stating they have many more who don’t want need these classes so it’s easier to have a teacher teach another section of a different class.  Or that’s what DE is available to support.  This later would be viable if the DE campus was more easily accessible.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure PP is the Einstein parent who is on a tear about their school (an IBDP school) not offering sufficient AP classes. The new proposal isn't going to solve that problem, because IBDP schools will always have fewer AP courses since kids can take IB classes instead. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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