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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give me a break. The Blair magnet serves more than 400 students, it has served thousands of moco families well over the years, stabilized and improved the largest and most diverse high school in Maryland (Go Blazers), and brought national rep to the school district. Pretty good ROI. I would care about that collateral damage. [/quote]

400 a year is not very much, given the need.  That's 100 per grade.[/quote]

Well, even the 400 is a little bit of a "hide the ball" situation. Of the 100 kids per grade, only a handful are taking the massively accelerated courses that might not be sustainable when the program is duplicated.

When people talk about the "gem" that is SMCS, they don't actually mean that 400 kids per year are taking Linear Algebra or Organic Chemistry. Most Blair magnet kids are taking a normal math progression, ending with Multivariable or AP Statistics, and a normal math progression ending with Physics C (or whatever).

A very small number of kids are doing much more, and there is a critical mass of ES and MS parents who are convinced their children will be in that group, and who are lamenting what they perceive to be a loss of programs.

But it actually doesn't make sense to stand up a magnet around 15 kids per year, and I credit Taylor for being willing to walk away from the madness.

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This is what doesn't make sense.  If they aren't doing anything really accelerated, what's the point of it beyond bragging rights?  I'd expect these kids to complete MV and Linear Algebra.  It doesn't seem to make sense financially.  [/quote]

See my comments below. You are responding to a post full of inaccurate numbers. At least 80% of the kids reach the MVC/Diff Eqn level by graduation and take advantage of this program. [/quote]

[b]Ok, and the point is that many of these kids can do it in their home schools[/b] so why do we need to bus them cross country and not save those spots for kids who don't have access at their home schools?  Many of our kids take those classes... its nothing to brag about. [/quote]
No, they cannot do it at their home schools. That's why they chose to go to Blair. 
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Yes, many of them can.  Look at the course guides.[/quote]
Why do they want to go to Blair if everything can be taken in their home schools?[/quote]

No idea why.  The W schools and BCC have advanced classes, other schools do not.  In the DCC, only Wheaton and Blair have advanced classes.[/quote]

You clearly have no idea how magnetic programming differs from regular programming. MVC at Blair, for example, is much more rigorous than what is offered at Ws/B-CC. Having a course on the topic does not make it the same. [/quote]

You clearly have an idea how magnetic programming differs.  What makes you more informed than me?  [/quote]

Its the same track as other kids at their home school or dual enrollment.. doesn't sound special at all.[/quote]

Good grief.  The casual disinformation you throw around to try to dismiss others' concerns.  Terrible.[/quote]

Look, you are doing a bad job of persuading us this program is worth the cost for $400 students.  [/quote]

Addressing the needs of the many vs. the needs of the few (or the one; "live long and prosper") is a separate matter from whether a magnet provides a different experience for a particular class, which happens to be the case, here.

Again, there is enough disinformation out there, already.  It doesn't help to pile on, there, perhaps not even in support of your particular thrust.  (Of course, MCPS central is guilty of that, too, if mostly from a [i]lack[/i] of detailed information allowing disinformation to be assumed/proliferate).[/quote]

Offering these programs for a few financially makes no sense when other students are going without.[/quote]

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