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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The possible change to regions will not happen until fall 2027, and final decisions about the new programs will not even be made until December 2025 or later.

The main question is whether MCPS will make any specific reassurances or guarantees to this fall's applicants or not.  For example, they could theoretically say "We commit that students starting a program in fall 2026 (or earlier) will be able to finish out that program.". If you would like that kind of information/reassurance, I would highly suggest you contact the Board of Ed *now*.to demand that, so they have time to put pressure on MCPS to make a statement like that by early fall.[/quote]

Why? Why should parents have to contact BOE? Why can't mcps do this without any parental involvements?[/quote]

I mean, yes, of course, ideally MCPS would do this proactively.  But you've gotta work with the MCPS you have, not the MCPS you wish you had.  I don't have a rising 8th grader or 5th grader, but if I did, I would certainly be reaching out to push for clarity on this, rather than staying silent because I "shouldn't have to" and maybe going partway or all the way through the application season without any answers...[/quote]

This is the answer.  People are always complaining that their voice is not heard, or that things are not as they would wish. Here you have a prime opportunity to make your voice heard, and the perfect avenue by which to do it (surveys, office hours, BOE testimony, writing to CO /BOE members on the Program Analysis) and yet you would take it because "Why should parents have to contact BOE?".  If Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda was a bank it'd would be rich.

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There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
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I do have a rising 8th grader.  But honestly, I watched the McPS board meeting online with Taylor and his minions on the upcoming changes and very little was said other than that they weren’t going to make any decisions until next year. The head of academic programs lady didn’t even know that these changes would be subject to McPs board approval (Taylor had to correct her.). So I can write umpteen letters to the MCPS board asking for clarity for my 8th grader who is going to be stuck in this situation of being the last on the current system, and may end up with a poorly resourced program because it’s being discontinued in its current form.

But if MCPS is moving slowly in its work and not providing much information, not sure what begging for more clarity  will accomplish (by October 2025 anyway.)[/quote]

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