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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am also very interested in this question and I wonder if there’s any chance of them being expanded so there’s at least one option per region.  I realize there would be challenges to doing so.[/quote]

I honestly think this is what they would have done (added a middle school immersion program, a middle school math/science magnet, and a middle school humanities magnet in every region) if it weren't for the MSDE math minutes mandate thing.  But the mandate will probably mean that they will drop down to 1 or 1.5 elective periods per student per year starting in 2027-2028, and I don't know that magnet programs and immersion will survive that.  (Heck, I don't know that *foreign language* in middle school will survive that-- probably not any language besides Spanish, anyway, since on average middle schools only have a section or two of French of Chinese and a lot of students will likely pass on foreign language if it means they can't take band/orchestra or other electives they're interested in.)  
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This is part of why I hate the MSDE middle school math mandate and am constantly e-mailing people about it to try to get it rolled back-- no luck yet.  If you agree, contact the MD State Board of Ed, your state legislators, and ask MCPS Board of Ed members and MCPS leadership to lobby the state to roll it back too...[/quote]

Don’t kids who are behind in math already have to take a second math resource class and only one elective?  Seems like they should not need to mandate more math across the board especially at the expense of a well-rounded education. We already wait really late to teach kids a second language compared to other countries.[/quote]

Yeah, it's just MSDE bureaucrats gone wild, and they don't care how it affects our kids.  (And it sounds like there's not even any evidence for it-- see: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1304986.page )

Contact your legislators if you're mad about this and ask them to shut it down.  Otherwise it will fly under the radar until people start freaking out in 2027 when foreign language and elective classes and teachers get cut (and math classes get huge because they try to cram 5 classes worth of students into the 3 or 4 classes a math teacher will be able to teach in a day moving forward.). But by then it'll be too late to change anything.

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