Reply to Thursday Nov 20 BOE Discussion on Boundaries and Regional Program Model

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Thursday Nov 20 BOE Discussion on Boundaries and Regional Program Model"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that even at Northwood no one is interested in CASE. The counselors keep stuffing the CASE classes with random kids who need an elective or CTE credit. Why would they elevate Case to a regional program. They are determined to shove it down peoples throats but they would never dare do that at Whitman or Churchill[/quote]

If not even enough kids at one school are interested in it, how can they plan for it to be a criteria-based program? [/quote]

This is exactly why a regional program could be a good idea.  There are interested kids, but not enough to have it at all the schools in a region, so you bring those kids together.

The new proposal is a mind shift- more access to programs for more kids.  What the current structure has is a few programs with great reputations that many compete to be a part of.   I think they may be going overboard with the number of programs, but in theory think they are truly trying to provide more opportunities and more access to the majority of kids, rather than serving a few.

In some ways the community input has helped, but in others, it has spread things too thin.  Schools/communities get upset that they won't have something, so they add another program.  Rather than bringing together the programs that need specialized resources, they are spreading them across a region to avoid hurt feelings.

My personal two cents is that the premise is good, but they've gone too far.  I would gladly support of 4 region model, doubling the number of the "most competitive" programs (SMACS, IB, Humanities)  available and adding some interest based pathways and/or less common languages hubs to bring together kids interested in courses that are hard to offer due to numbers. [/quote]

The problem is that their version of community input has been to put out half-baked proposals publicly (e.g. "let's put an education program at Einstein" "Um... we were actually planning on dissolving that due to lack of interest") and then respond to whomever they have upset the most. They really needed more time to internally develop a stronger proposal with principal input before putting out something public. Now they are just running around adding programs like chickens with their heads cut off.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics