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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This rushed operation to pass this massive proposal is suspicious. It is bad faith to have unveiled the proposal at the end of the school year when everyone is getting ready for summer, and to try to pass it in December.

There is not a robust forum for community feedback, and it is doubtful MCPS can implement this enormous change well. Look at the subpar IB programs at Seneca Valley and Watkins Mill, for instance.

If MCPS’s proposal goes through, the excellent countywide programs will become smaller, staff will be moved to different schools, and you will not get the best of the best students, which is what made the programs great in the first place. Imagine if TJ suddenly limited its  students to be only from city of Fairfax. It would become a husk of its former self. This is what will happen to Blair SMCS.

In addition, Einstein will definitely get the shaft and the great arts hub it developed over many years will be in an instant destroyed by this irresponsible administration.[/quote]

Blair takes 60-80 kids per year in a flawed process of only looking at only a single data point of MAP-M.   Having more programs more accessible to more kids, closer to their home schools is not a bad thing and will help mitigate the flawed selection process currently in place for SMCS. [/quote]

I think people can have different opinions on the merit of the changes and still agree that the process has been terrible and it's not okay to make massive changes like this in a top-down way without getting input either from either parents/students about what they actually want and how they feel about potential changes, or from teachers and staff actually working in existing programs about what they do and what it would take to expand and duplicate programs well.  But they didn't do either of those things, just had staff come up with a plan and now are rolling it out to people and presenting it as a done deal.  And then they'll probably make a couple tiny tweaks and tell the Board it's them being responsive to feedback and the Board will somehow believe them.[/quote]

For folks who had attended the webminars, please keep on emailing BOE and MCPS or do testimonies about how you observe the fact that the communication is one-way. Don’t let them easily slew away.[/quote]

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