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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the justifications people are giving for why the system has to stay the way it is just sound like gatekeeping to me. People seem to want to benefit from a program and then slam the door behind them and keep access limited. “My kid was smart and had the right combination of skills and genius and prepping to do well, but yours might not!” “If more non-wealthy students have access to what my kids had access to, it will be tragic, the program will go downhill!” I’m all for broadening access. True access for students who qualify for a program. Not more gatekeeping behind lotteries, which is what MCPS has done in recent years and which isn’t any better. Why can’t each high school have the same advanced math classes? Because anonymous posters on dcum say it’s hard to get people with the right background to teach these subjects? It’s public school. People want a fair system, and having your course options limited because of where you live within the school district, or because the county does not create enough seats in a program for the number of students who qualify for the program, does not seem like a fair system. [/quote]

They think kids in the dcc and other schools are not as smart as theirs.  If they offered more at all schools and not just the w schools more families would stay making those schools “better”.  Every school should have the same course offerings.  There is a huge disparity between the schools.  The expectation is you have to pay a million or more for your home to get access and so what happens when these lower cost neighborhoods now have homes that surpass Bethesda and Potomac and other areas?

Bussing dcc kids cross county is unfair as there will only be a few slots and transportation outside school hours.  They could offer the classes virtually.  This is all show and no substance to deflect from what’s really going on.  [/quote]

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