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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be real. Handing out AA/AS degrees to students who are going to move on to 4 year schools as freshmen is a farce.

If you want to go to EC/MC for classes like Criminology or other very specific courses that high schools don't offer, go for it and enjoy. But MCPS promoting MC handing out worthless Associates degrees and promoting a fake status of "you're going to college early because you aren't as lazy or dumb as our basement level expectations for a standard high school diploma" is ridiculous. [/quote]
[b]What is ridiculous is how much you are complaining about an option that you aren’t forced to choose.[/b] There are many reasons why students may find going to MC in the early college program worthwhile. Just because you can’t imagine it doesn’t make it a poor choice for them.[/quote]
Well said. [/quote]

[b]Actually, the problem with your argument is that MCPS is spending money on the program, [/b]when what they should be doing is restoring rigor and gate-keeping in high school courses.  A program like this gets noisy parents to stop advocating for better high schools, lets them think that their children are "advanced," so strokes their egos, and puts kids in classes that are more vo-tec without having an underlying well-rounded foundation.  For kids who want to go straight into the work world, maybe this would be OK.  For college prep students, taking classes like "Intro to Special Education" or "Intro to Behavioral Health Promotion" or even "Accounting" when they should be taking foreign language or world history, etc. is silly. [/quote]
See, you have no idea of what you're talking about. Do us a favor and familiarize yourself with the program [/quote]

World history is part of the mandatory curriculum.  And explain to me please how differential equations in early college is only appropriate for kids that want to go “directly into the work world” when the highest math offered at almost all MCPS schools is limited to MVC.

It seems you are totally unfamiliar with the curriculum.  If it doesn’t make sense for your kid, that fine.  Don’t send them.  But don’t misrepresent the program due to unfamiliarity with the basics or some undisclosed grudge.[/quote]

It seems like you are the one unfamiliar with the options.  If your child takes Diff E, obviously, that is not vo-tech.  But they could have taken that  before this program.[/quote]

Once again, I didn’t claim this was the only option.  Nor did I claim APs couldn’t also get a student a lot of credits.  I’m just seriously perplexed what benefit you get from actively misrepresenting a totally voluntary program that is a great fit for some kids who really seem to enjoy and have good outcomes from the program.[/quote]

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