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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to hear what deranged level of course offerings should be offered at every school.[/quote]

How about offering the same exact classes at all schools.  You are ok with this because your kids have access.  You bash other parents whose kids don’t have access why?   You are the problem.  [/quote]

I think your child’s needs should be met, but I don’t think you are being realistic or reasonable in thinking you can buy a home in an under resourced school pyramid and expect that your outlier child, who is not a family on FARMS or an EML student, should get bespoke treatment/allocation of school resources when the majority of your school needs different classes and remediation. I think mcps should provide you transportation to mc or to a nearby high school so you can access those classes they can’t provide at yours. I don’t think your under resourced over crowded school should have to cater to a very small subset. [/quote]

I think that's a mis-reading of the student population at these high FARMS schools. It's not like 90% are below grade level. There's a substantial cohort of able learners, and they should be able to have their needs met at their home school.

Honestly, this is perhaps a topic for another thread, but the simplest way to do that IMO is less about super-advanced AP or post-AP classes, but to go back to cohorted Grade 9-10 English and Social Studies classes so that teachers aren't scrambling trying to teach to such a wide range of abilities in one classroom, an approach that I don't think helps students at any level. [/quote]

They are about 30-50% below grade level and  50-70% grade level. Very few above grade level. [/quote]

But let’s all focus on super advanced coursework….[/quote]

Sure, because your kids got advanced coursework, who cares about the kids who don't?  You want to talk about farms and yet, you don't live in a neighborhood with lower income and they aren't welcome.   The better solution is to cut funding from the schools that have more to make it more equal and use that funding to provide more supports in ES and MS to get these kids reading and writing better.  There is no fix at the HS level.  The fix has to come at the ES level. [/quote]
School funding is managed by the county, and [b]high FARMs schools already get more funding than other schools[/b] (as they should).

Wealthier parents provide outside enrichment.  The school district doesn't provide that.

-dp[/quote]

There are no Title 1 or focus [b]high schools[/b] in MCPS. They don't get money based on FARMS rates. If they do get extra money it is probably for EML and students with disabilities (low income kids have higher rates of disability). These funds do not address the specific issues associated with poverty nor do they address racism in education, which is a real, documented issue that affects Black and Brown (especially Black) students of all income levels. In addition, MCPS's budget numbers do not distinguish between teachers. As you know, more experienced teachers get paid more. High income schools have more experienced teachers. [b]Therefore, teachers in high income schools get paid more than teachers in low income schools.[/b][/quote]

Teacher in high income schools do not get paid more just because the school is in a high income area.  They are paid more because they are more senior and have more experience.  The teachers with the same seniority/experience get paid the same amount regardless of where the school is located in the county and regardless of socioeconomics of population.

And while there is no Title1 or Focus in High school,[b] MCPS did change their resource allocation to schools.  [/b]So the PP is correct that High Farms schools are getting more.[/quote]

Huh? What does this even mean? Which schools are getting extra funding due to their FARMS rates (that is, funding that is not for EML or special education)?[/quote]

DP. I think this refers to a part of Taylor's new operating budget. I'll look for a link.[/quote]

It's this chart:
[url]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gDlOYGuJHgMS8Orz2GQnQ6tMygY49xPY/view[/url]

linked to Exhibit 33 here:
[url]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-q0uQO2SNtPctS3GptsRbeansTeG0ffQwAp-oDnBWVA/edit?usp=sharing[/url][/quote]

Does this mean that for this current school year, Einstein which is listed as having 847 FARMS students, gets an equity allocation of $267,273 (which is about 2 teachers salaries and benefits) and Churchill, which is listed as having 241 FARMS students, gets $276,194? In what way is this promoting equity? BCC is even worse! Kennedy gets less than all of these. WTAF.[/quote]

This isn't for salaries and benefits, it's instructional materials and "other program costs."[/quote]
For which Churchill and BCC got more money than Einstein and Kennedy.[/quote]

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