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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]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 high FARMs schools already get more funding than other schools (as they should).

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

-dp[/quote]

Many of us worked with our kids/tutors/outside enrichment but that's not why these kids are struggling.  MCPS needs to be required to provide additional supports to any child not on grade level.  BY HS, its too little too late.  The funding for FAMRS is not enough to accomplish that.  [/quote]

Has anyone reckoned with how much this actually would cost? There have been plenty of studies showing preschool and certain early childhood benefits fade over time. So tell me, what is the cost to keep all of these kids on grade level from kindergarten (or even before) through high school without watering down the curriculum or creme skimming to “juice” the stats, because that’s what needs to be evaluated. And then we need to decide whether we have the budget to do it. I, for one, am pessimistic about the true costs much less the political wherewithal to see it through. [/quote]

It's hard to say, but I would imagine extremely expensive, but isn't it worth investing in students when they are younger, as if you catch issues early and remediate, they may not need the help in MS or HS.  It shouldn't be one or the other, but if kids don't have a strong foundation, they are going to struggle starting in 3rd/4th and its very hard to catch up and it hurts kids self-esteem and they give up.  Some of it is MCPS curriculum.[/quote]

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