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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WTF?? My kids are K and 2 nd but MCPS is actually busing students around for one subject??? Why don't they just offer a better math curriculum and allow compacted accelerated math in the home school. Its an incredible waste of time for the students and expense to the tax payers to be busing kids around when this could be done in the home school. [/quote]

Why can't they set up a couple of webcams if the class size doesn't merit an onsite teacher?  Each bus trip must be more than the cost of the technology. [/quote]

As I am talking to more families, I think the plan is to pick up elementary kids at the same stops/times as the bus is already traveling for HCG middle school.  So it is not an extra expense to take kids to their compacted 4/5 early morning class.  It is an extra expense, though, to bus them back to their regular school.

Back in the old days, teachers just sent advanced kids to the next grade up.  So simple but good enough!!  I like the idea of a webcam, too, back at the home school.  Will be interesting to see how this evolves!![/quote]

If that is true, it is even worse for the kids. Those buses come very early (b/c they pick up at a variety of elementary schools and the routes are quite long).  To make an elementary aged child go through all of that is wrong.  Just wrong.  What was so bad about simply differentiating the the schools again?  Could this be the old "law of unintended consequences" at work again?[/quote]

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