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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly if they’re not going to offer accelerated or enriched courses in all subjects at the home schools they should take the kids with the top scores and grades and get rid of the lottery system. What they offer at the home schools is neither comparable nor sufficient for any student who needs above grade level instruction. It is unbelievable to me that they’d take kids with lower scores/demonstrated readiness, and then refuse to meet the needs of the students they don’t have enough seats to accommodate. My own two kids never got off the lottery waiting pool lists and completely languished academically in middle school. Such a missed opportunity. [/quote]

Or just cancel the programs.  Our home school needs more smart kids with involved parents desperately but we lose so many to those programs, and it really hurts those left behind in terms of peer group and class offerings.  [/quote]

Unfortunately canceling the programs isn’t going to make the home schools better. I’m the PP whose kids languished. Our school had more than enough bright students left. It did not make up for the unchallenging curriculum (that literally repeated books from elementary school), teachers unwilling and unable to differentiate, and dumbing down of expectations so that on and below grade level students didn’t completely fail in the mixed ability classrooms. Like playing the entire audio book in class over three weeks every day at the expense of complementary instruction because some students couldn’t or wouldn’t read the book. Closing down the magnet would not have changed any of this at the home school. It just would have deprived every single student of appropriate instruction rather than many. [/quote]

But then there would be more mad parents, which might force changes.  Right now everyone just shrugs and says “well there a magnet for the lucky ones”[/quote]

There are plenty of mad parents now-- only a tiny fraction of eligible kids get into the magnets.  The issue is that MCPS doesn't really care about mad parents .. increasing the number of upset parents by like 10% is not going to have the impact you think it is.  [/quote]

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