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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ETA: and the Blair and RM parents who are complaining about the quality of the program declining if it becomes regional are horrible snobs. Your gifted kid can learn with other gifted local kids! They don’t have to be with only gifted kids from all around the whole county! Give me a break. So snobby![/quote]
Is [url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Olympiad_Program]MO[/url][url=https://web.evanchen.cc/mop.html]P[/url] snobby?[/quote]

The quality of the program would definitely decline if, instead of taking top 100 kids it took the top 1000. It’s already a very tough, challenging program that only the top third or so truly excel in. Expanding without reducing the standards will just set some kids up for failure or more likely dilute the program.[/quote]

You're assuming that the 100 kids in the program are the top and would forever be.  You are also assume there is not another 900 kids who could/would succeed in such program if the seats and program structure were available.[/quote]

DP - yes.  I don't really understand the elitist attitude at all.  My children are younger, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but I always hear that MCPS is great if you can take full advantage of the magnets.  But then that's a major caveat, because middle school magnets are lottery based and high school magnets are very, very selective.  We should be serving more qualified children.

For the parents who are endorsing the Blair magnet and the RM IB program (for example) as they are, is it because your kids already got in?  Or are you really not worried about your younger children making the cut?  I am a little baffled.[/quote]

Maybe they need to build more magnets but not restrict by regions. So a magnet won’t be just selecting students from 5 high schools. That certainly dilutes the magnet program cohorts. [/quote]

There are plenty of students in each region to support programs.  The deck even showed this.[/quote]

What did the deck show about this? -DP[/quote]

That there are students in all the regions with high GPAs and involved in specialized programs. There is also reporting done each year to show that there are kids in alls schools taking advance classes.  So quit it with your chicken little mentality or scarcity mentality.  [/quote]

Another DP.  While there may be plenty of students in each region to support programs, are there plenty of program seats in each region to support students?  That would be the more important question.

And while there are kids in all schools taking advanced classes, there clearly have not been the same breadth and levels of advanced classes available at all schools for students to take.  Again, the latter bit is the much more important point, but one that MCPS typically would hide by using the wording of the former.

The scarcity claims are valid unless MCPS can show that, on an [i]individual[/i] basis, the options for school attendance (magnet, consortia, in-bounds school or some other) and program/class availability that reasonably might be [i]expected[/i] (not just possible) are

roughly equivalent no matter where one lives

and

consistent with the academic need of said individual.[/quote]

There are kids at all schools capable but not all kids are taking advanced classes as the schools don’t offer them.  They try to force the kids to Mc.   Of course pre one BOE member works there and her job is liaison to MCPS so huge conflict of interest.  [/quote]

Which school are you talking about? Einstein has AP Bio, AP Chem, APES, AP Phys, AP Calc BC, AP Stats, AP Lang, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP USH, AP World…. That seems like advanced classes to me. No multivariable that is true but saying a school doesn’t offer advanced classes when it offers all these plus IB is not true. Do you mean a different school?[/quote]

There is no ap bio or chem.   There is no multi variable or linear algebra.  There are zero science ap.   Two science teachers left this year.  [/quote]

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