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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After looking at so many half-baked pathways on that site, I am beginning to see the strategy.

Classes, teachers, that is all secondary. The idea is to create many mini cohorts of students with similar interests and hope that they will lift each other up. That is why they are adding random magnets with no vision on how to execute them whatsoever. They expect that kids will figure it out.

So people trying to nitpick about specific classes, and why is physics going before calculus, and why is business class in the art magnet, are just wasting their time. The architects of this model don't believe that is important at this stage and expect that kids will figure it out over time and that programs will evolve accordingly.

It is ironic that this approach is what some equity advocates resent the most. Their belief is that their kids are capable but don't have access to right resources. If only they had access to some class with a fancy name, like MVC, the sky would be limit. This model is telling them - the only resource you are gonna get is other smart kids; observe them and learn from them.

It is actually not a bad concept. However, it will not help introvert kids, and parents with no resources, nor energy and time, to supplement weak curriculums through extra activities (AoPS, RSM, ...) will stay frustrated.
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Except they're actually killing the cohorts of advanced kids at home schools (except the richest high schools that aren't going to have large numbers of kids leave for programs and would still have enough advanced kids left behind even if they did.)  And the advanced kids who'll be left at these weakened home schools will be disproportionately poorer ones whose parents can't drive them to programs at other schools.  That's the inequitable part. [/quote]

There aren't big cohorts now as many in the DCC leave for Blair, Wheaton or Private because of the lack of school offerings.  These families will have to move or make do, like the current ones have to and there is going to be a bigger divide, especially when some schools could, but refuse to provide opportunities for all students.  Farms rates will go up at these schools as families leave.[/quote]

Private schools offer LESS courses. What are you even talking about?!? [/quote]

No, they offer more in terms of higher level and advanced depending on the school and allow independent study.  [/quote]

Actual on a general scale, private schools do not offer more in terms of courses because they don’t have the numbers to support it. Their course catalogs are full of courses that are not normally taught. Depending on school some of the normal courses are more advanced but that is because of how the student body is selected [/quote]

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