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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need a critical mass of highly able students in the same classroom, a good program, and good teachers for this to be successful. Montgomery county benefited from the national awards won by Blair, Poolesville, and RM students, by increased tax revenue for instance. It is simply not possible to achieve the same level of success with regional programs. There won't be enough interested and capable students to justify the same level of classes at the same number of classes. There won't be enough teachers capable of teaching these classes at the same level they are taught today. For all practical purposes, this is the end of a very successful program. Sad.[/quote]

Totally agree. It’s just impossible to duplicate those highly successful programs across all six regions. Eventually, the so-called magnet programs in each region will become just regular programs with a few advanced classes.

But I guess no one cares. [/quote]

People don't care because the few magnets slots are placed in the far eastern part of the county or upper Northwest part of the county. For the vast majority of us, our kids either didn't qualify because we haven't been prepping them since the age of 5 AND/OR we live far away and travel time isn't worth it. What is the plan for middle school magnets? IMO, that is the level where we most need reform.[/quote]

Enough with the prepping them garbage.  What a myth you tell yourself.   Smart kids are smart kids.   [/quote]

And smart kids exist all throughout the county.  We're not going to continue to pretend like only 90 kids out of a class of 10K+ are the only ones that deserves access to opportunity.[/quote]

The big difference is the W and a few other schools have lots of opportunities for smart kids whereas other schools offer very little.  Instead of this non-sense they should offer classes at other schools, bus those kids for classes at other schools or offer it virtually so all kids who need/want higher level classes have the opportunities to take them.[/quote]

Looks like they are planning to offer classes at others schools, via a new region model and proposing DE/Distance and Virtual Learning for some higher level.  So looks like they are doing exactly what you suggest.[/quote]

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