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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the heck is this AgroEcolog and sometimes names Environmental Science program and why is it criteria base?  More importantly what is the criteria?

For this to be criteria based it needs to require AP Seminar for 10th grade English, AP Research as an Elective, a data related course for math or tech Ed, and likely an Intro to Sustainability or o Urban planning related engineering/science elective.

They should be sitting down the UN to discuss incorporating the SDGs, FDA/USDA for partnership and internships, etc.

Seriously who is creating these and thinks they equate with rigor.[/quote]

I dunno about the rest, but pretty sure the "why" of why it's criteria-based is that families were complaining that there was no academic criteria-based magnet at Northwood (maybe other schools as well, but that's the one I know about.). So they decided to add this agroecology thing which pretty obviously should be interest-based (and may not have enough interest to operate) but label it criteria-based to try to shut families up and undercut our ability to make the case to the BOE that this is inequitable.  They will probably go ahead and switch it back to interest-based next year after the plan passes [/quote]

Everything in this comment is probably exactly correct, and it is so disheartening.[/quote]

Putting a criteria based program in each school makes sense.  So does including one interest based program.  I would be fine with that.  But now all schools have multiple programs and they are trying to say that the local programs might/should stay, but this makes zero sense.  They should stop pretending there is budget and resources for everything. They should stop pretending they can role out successfully this many programs. Doing one criteria and one interest at each school would be more than enough for them to focus on on getting correct along with improvements to standard HS.

They are making this unnecessarily cumbersome and more complex by trying to please everyone instead of making thoughtful decisions and implementation plans.

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