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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Virtual middle college and middle college were designed to funnel more students into MC as community college enrollment has been declining.
The goal is to help MC stay afloat more than it is to benefit students [/quote]

Hopefully you’re aware that MC is a nonprofit.[/quote]

If MC provides classes that MCPS won't, or provides them cheaper, and money moves from MCPS budget to MC budget to make MC look better to the Legislature, it's a win-win that defends MC from being shut down for cost-efficiency reasons.[/quote]

You nailed it. MCPS students and resources are continuously being used to prop up Montgomery College's existence. I'm not a fan, not because I don't think MC shouldn't exist. But the community college should exist on its own merits, not by leaching and replacing with MCPS should be doing.[/quote]
The DE program is one of MC's merits. MCPS shouldn't be doing dual enrollment on it's own because it's not a regionally accredited university and therefore can't issue college credit for classes.[/quote]

My qualm with DE is them having kids take high school classes on college campuses. If you're dual-enrolled and taking college classes on college campus, fine. But they're literally yanking kids out of high school to throw them into a college environment early, which is not developmentally healthy, IMO, because as others point out, K-12 education is also about social and emotional development.

DE either extracts them from their high school environment and puts that cohort of kids in an isolated bubble, or forces them to split that time in half with some time spent on campus and some time spent in their home high school.

Of the two methods, I think the latter model, where DE students visit the college campus but are still anchored in their high school, is better. But the former model does replace what MCPS offers, and I don't think that's healthy for kids.[/quote]

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