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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You parents flipping out about MVC are nuts. I'm not delighted about eliminating the DCC but it is what it is. There will still be choice options for your child to go to a STEM magnet and [b] enhancing the science offerings at Einstein could well lead to MVC being offered in future years [/b] if there are class fulls of students on that track. That said, your kids must be young because you don't have to drive them to MC. By the time they are taking it, they can drive themselves.[/quote]

The regional model didn’t set a STEM program at Einstein, did it? Why Einstein will necessarily get higher level offering in the future? Previously STEM-strong kids in Einstein can choose Wheaton engineering or Blair SMCS, and now they can only choose Blair SMCS, so I can understand why that MVC parent was so irritated.

However, Blair SMCS will be less competitive in the future, so hopefully the STEM-strong kids in region 1 will have an easier leeway in the future.[/quote]

The latest proposal puts a biomedical program at Einstein https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMJHXR4AA9BD/$file/Boundary%20Studies%20Program%20Analysis%20Update%20251016%20PPT%20REV.pdf

But who knows since they keep changing things reactively to respond to the people who scream the loudest[/quote]

It would be nice if they asked parents and students what they wanted.  I cannot imagine that will be that popular.  Enhance the arts and other electives, add stem-ap and leave the ib and humanities.  That will make it so there is a little bit for everyone. The biomedical is fine for a cna but not a future doctor or researcher.  [/quote]

It’s extremely frustrating. Their Performing Arts Pathways slide is very reminiscent of Einstein’s VAPA pathway—actually, not just reminiscent, it’s practically identical. So I don’t understand why Einstein can’t have the full Performing Arts Regional program if it’s clearly so heavily influenced by what we already have. Einstein should have the regional Visual Arts and Performing Arts programs—it’s only fair.[/quote]

I really think it's because Einstein will not have enough seats to host a popular regional program like that. They're trying to solve for overcrowding there and also fill up the new seats at Northwood.[/quote]

That doesn’t make sense. Only four other schools can apply to this regional program. It’s basically VAPA with an application. Considering that the majority of Einstein’s student body is in VAPA, how can they create a regional program with a maximum of, what, 120 students and say Einstein can’t handle that number—when the current VAPA already far exceeds that number? The “overcrowding” excuse is tired and doesn’t hold up.[/quote]

Einstein currently has fifteen portables. Overcrowding is real.[/quote]

That’s not the point they’re trying to make. If the majority of Einstein’s current population is in Visual and Performing Arts Academy , and under the new regional model only schools zoned for Einstein can attend—except for the regional program—then Einstein can clearly support the program’s capacity. VAC has done it countywide. To suggest that Einstein shouldn’t have a popular program, even though it inspired the very model in question, is absurd.[/quote]

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