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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many thank you’s to the poster who attended the Blair meeting tonight. I’d love to see MCPS have a whole school magnet program similar to the TJ program in Northern Virginia. I’m also interested in MCPS following after many successful school districts such as those in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut. I’m excited to hear about the report in June 2019. I hope someone else will be able to make it to the Clarksburg session in February and the Richard Montgomery session in April 2019. In this way parents on here can compare notes of what’s being said at each session by Dr. Navarro and MCPS higher ups. As parents we need to hold them accountable in every way. [/quote]

Do you mean small wealthy non diverse towns with one or two Hugh schools and no gap to focus on?  [/quote]

Of course there will be a gap web. There are uneducated illiterate parents in the same huge country public school system with graduate school parents.

County needs to Teach To Potential each and every student. Not just the bottom— for which it also provides free medical and dental exams, counseling, 3 meals a day and weekends, free before and aftercare, free summer school, extra teachers, etc. 
Results (proficiency scores) show all this extra money and attention and resources = same lousy scores[/quote]

I am not sure what you mean by huge country public schools..  I have lived in CT is a successful school system.  The term "Achievement Gap" never came up.  The only non-English speakers were kids that had parents that worked for multi-nationals.  The graduation and college rates were over 90%.  I do not think it would be appropriate for MCPS to use them as a roll model.  I also think the size of MCPS allows options unavailable in a small town.  There are no magnets/special programs/IB options.  Not enough kids.  You can not treat a 26 HS community and a 1 HS community the same way.[/quote]

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