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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's how I would think about the prioritization:

1) Blair magnet
2) Wheaton magnet
3) Regular Blair
4) Everything else

For that reason, I'd rank Blair in the DCC lottery and secure that spot and then take the Wheaton magnet if that's the best magnet option.

However, at regular Blair I'd recommend upending the recommended science sequence. "Honors" Biology and "Honors" Chemistry are on-level at best, so I'd recommend talking to parents of older kids and mapping out a pathway that makes sense and replicates the Wheaton program to the degree possible. [/quote]

How do you "upend" ?  Can you talk your way into AP without taking Honors first? [/quote]

Yes. AP Physics doesn't have a pre-requisite, just a strong admonition to consider carefully before taking it as a freshman. AP Bio is supposed to, but I've seen it taken without.

This goes back to an issue that has been discussed to death on DCUM but remains an issue, [b]which is that most schools show on-level courses in their online offerings, but those classes do not actually exist.[/b] So, "Honors" Biology should be getting kids ready for AP Bio and "Honors" Chemistry should be getting kids ready for AP Chemistry, but because MCPS got rid of on-level, those classes have slowed way down. It hurts on all sides, because high performing kids are bored and they end up not ready for the AP classes. [/quote]
No, they do exist but they need enough students to sign up for the classes.  
The problem is that the vast majority of MoCo/DCUM  parents think that their kids are too smart and too good  for on-level courses.  Who wants their kids to be known as been on-level? The stigma! [/quote]

No, at our school the on-level science classes do not exist anymore. They removed them from the course listings.[/quote]
Because not enough students are signing up for them.[/quote]

Yeah, funny how students don't sign up for a class when it isn't on the list of classes they can sign up for.[/quote]
You cannot be that slow. 
If not enough students continously sign up for a class, soon or later it will be discontinued.
It's not that hard to understand. [/quote]

No, you don't understand. It was not simply a matter of students opting not to take an on-level class. It was a decision intentionally made to put all students into honors classes, to have honors classes as the default across the board, with the exception of math.[/quote]

And then the content of those "honors" classes was made less rigorous.[/quote]

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