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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not happy my kid won’t be able to go to one of the cool programs at Poolesville or Blair, but it’s really hard for many families to deal with getting their kids there and back every day. I hired someone to fetch my kid from a middle school magnet bus stop - grateful I can afford to do that and it was the only way to make it work, but it’s not fair that you have to be able to afford this kind of help to make a magnet program feasible.

I don’t think MCPS did a good job of explaining the regional model, but it sounds like they will be taking a long time to figure out regions, programming, staffing, etc., so hopefully they get to planning and get it smoothed out. I suspect part of the reason we’re all left unclear on what’s happening is that the Wootton to Crown debate took up 90% or more of the BOE meetings, testimony, media coverage, etc., so that’s all we heard about.[/quote]

Just a quick reality check.

The regional program open houses will start in September/October of this year, in six months. Applications will be due, likely on Nov. 1. They have to have something figured out so families know what to apply for.

Unless their goal is to have nothing concrete to apply for, show a low number of applications, and throw their hands up and say "I guess everyone wants local schools." And there you go, no more magnets, no transportation issues.[/quote]

Yes, this is a quite reasonable prediction. They can't get things finalized in 6 months (program, curriculum, teachers, transportation, etc.) to the level to gain enough interests and confidence from the community. What Taylor said was they just need to figure out the 9th grade teachers and courses, and roll out 10th grade next year. [b]No he doesn't understand that barely anyone would bet their 4 most critical years of education on 1-yr promise.[/b] [/quote]

I actually think many students and families from lower-performing schools will bet on these ill-defined programs for the next 4 years despite the ambiguity because it's a means of getting out of an otherwise undesirable learning environment.

Now will that work for getting high-performing kids to the lower-performing schools? Probably not.[/quote]

The central stop transportation model will kill the chance for high-performing kids in low-performing schools to get out, unless their families are resourceful (in which case they probably wouldn't purchase a house at low-performing school zone at the beginning). [/quote]

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