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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RGMS parents revealed just how privileged and self serving they are. Don't worry, the rest of the county has taken note.[/quote]

I think that you could say this about a lot of the specialty programs.  I get the sense that the current admin and the Board don't have a whole lot of empathy for them. 
The county isn't required to offer these programs (except TAG, but that can be offered at regular schools).  They are a privilege, not a right and they take a lot of resources away from neighborhood schools.  I personally think that the county should only provide bus transportation for the FARMS/SPED kids that attend non-neighborhood schools.

From the DC-ist article [i]"Catarina Correia, president of Hyattsville’s parent-teacher organization, posted a statement on Goddard’s parent-teacher organization Facebook page citing research from Penn State University which says that Prince George’s County Schools’ specialty programs, like Goddard’s, “have successfully advocated for their programs against the detriment of neighborhood schools that often lack the same well connected, economically advantaged, and vocal parents.”

“I understand why you were upset, but I truly believe that as your children have been at [the Goddard] school for so long, you are woefully unaware of what other PG County public schools deal with on a daily basis and how truly lucky you and your children have been,” Correia wrote to Goddard parents. “I hope we can work together to make the [county school system] work as best it can for ALL our students.”[/i]
https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3331/?fbclid=IwAR0K5Fg1cC10DpQH8f23V-Cc1dRxliWI75KstiH9hAtavJxBfmiGV2vBIbo

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Buy isn't Hyattsville Middle a specialty school too? Performing arts? [/quote]

No. It has a creative and performing arts program within a neighborhood school.[/quote]

It's both. It's a neighborhood school with a creative and performing arts audition-based program. It's arguably two schools in one. The families in the creative and performing arts program are economically advantaged and vocal parents. The PTSO at HMS is advocating for both programs though.[/quote]

It seems very contradictory that the HMS community is wrongly attacking the specialty schools saying that they are privileged etc.,  when they too have a specialty program. The irony! 😄[/quote]

You clearly don’t understand how the CPA program works. It’s by audition. That means admission is based on the student’s demonstrated talent that is reviewed by a panel of staff. It’s not by whose parents know how to maneuver a lottery process. Plus the teachers in the CPA program also teach arts classes available to the entire student body. RGMS parents clearly demonstrated their entitled attitudes with their words and actions; I believe one of your parents stated they could not understand why PGCPS would put the disrespectful HMS students with the reputable students of RGMS. If RGMS hadn’t made it clear they didn’t want to share their school (and your PTA president corresponded with the CEO to that effect as well) this wouldn’t have happened.[/quote]

I'm sorry that comment was made, but it was ONE person and not reflective of a whole community.

How does one maneuver the lottery process? It is random, that is why it's called a lottery....[/quote]

Applying for the lottery process requires:

1. knowing a lottery exists
2. having the means and resources to deal with a half-day program for your 3 year old
3. computer access

I could go on, but surely you get it?

The numbers of FARMS and SPED students at RGMS compared with other local schools provide the data to back it up. Please, do some research into the wider world of PGCPS.[/quote]

You cannot put everyone in the same bucket. I did not have the resources for half day 3 year old program,so my child got into the 4 year old program. I am far from being "well off". Either way you cannot call the program maneuvering the system. There are many different programs for children to learn in different  ways; montessori,  language immersion, performing arts etc....but for you to be so against the specialty programs and children learning in different ways just makes you sound bitter. [/quote]

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