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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]What are the program groupings for region 1?[/quote]

Brand new and not up online yet.  The changes I remember is that they are sending the criteria-based humanities program from BCC (bad) to Whitman (much worse), and that they are letting Einstein keep only the music part of the performing arts magnet (theater and dance at Northwood.)[/quote]

Einstein also has medical science and healthcare[/quote]

There’s no interest at Einstein to hold that magnet![/quote]
Speak for yourself. My kids would love that and as a parent of kids inbounds for Einstein, I think it’s a great switch![/quote]

Your future doctors and nurses need far more than the program they are offering.  [/quote]

Like college and medical/nursing school?[/quote]
Those biomedical programs are more geared toward medical support staff. People angling to get admitted to premed will need much more rigor, like that found at Blair SMCS. I do not have faith that a Sherwood HS SMCS, for example, will offer that level of rigor.

Have you take organic chem? If you can’t handle the rigor of Blair SMCS, I would say you are not likely to be able to hang in there to do what is needed to become a doctor.

Cutting off region 5 access to Poolesville SMCS is similarly inequitable.[/quote]

This is inaccurate and should not be spread around the community as fact.  As someone noted, kids need four years of college (or the equivalent) and 4 years of medical school [b]before[/b] they become a doctor.  What a kid can handle at 14 does not equate to what they will know or be able to handle at 21. I'm not sure why folks feel that the entire college curriculum needs to be moved down to the HS level in order for kids to show rigor, interest, or ability. No one has to be taking organic chem in HS in order to be successful in pre-med at the collegiate level.  A program like Biomedical science is suppose to expose kids to the variety of careers available in the medical field, while also giving the depth and rigor of skills to be college and career ready.  I would prefer to see them having kids study Anatomy and Physiology and Medical Ethics.

PLTW has already developed a Biomedical Science curriculum for HS.  https://www.pltw.org/curriculum/biomedical-science[/quote]
College level is a big jump in difficulty level from HS. If you are wise, you would prepare your kids to handle the rigor through AP classes and Blair SMCS. Not the PLTW Biomedical Science curriculum or fake SMCS that would be at Springbrook or Gaithersburg HS. Any SMCS should have the exact same level of teachers, course offerings, and funding as Blair SMCS to be equitable. [/quote]

AP classes are not the only means by ensure that students are prepared to handle college. And each level is supposed to be a little more difficult and a little more in depth.  The point is to explore options, learn how to learn and study, and develop a work ethic. This is why folks continue to note how much more attention should be paid to the overall HS core content and not just these special programs.  [b]Also, no one said that the offerings between programs should be different.  [/b]The actual problem here is that they did not make SMCS just a Computer Science focused program.[/quote]

This statement implies that the offerings are the same, and they aren't. Nor has MCPS bothered to study what each school actually offers in terms of course offerings and what different schools do not offer.[/quote]

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