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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need a critical mass of highly able students in the same classroom, a good program, and good teachers for this to be successful. Montgomery county benefited from the national awards won by Blair, Poolesville, and RM students, by increased tax revenue for instance. It is simply not possible to achieve the same level of success with regional programs. There won't be enough interested and capable students to justify the same level of classes at the same number of classes. There won't be enough teachers capable of teaching these classes at the same level they are taught today. For all practical purposes, this is the end of a very successful program. Sad.[/quote]

Totally agree. It’s just impossible to duplicate those highly successful programs across all six regions. Eventually, the so-called magnet programs in each region will become just regular programs with a few advanced classes.

But I guess no one cares. [/quote]

Please explain what you mean by "highly successful" and why they need to stay at their current locations and not be expanded. Will the current students not do well at other locations?[/quote]

Different person by the way.

Blair SMCS has courses that are "more advanced," but are actually unique and taught by very skilled teachers. Spreading the program thin into 5 regions would kill it. It would just be an illusion of "expanding opportunity." The program would just end up being like honors for all.

Also, these magnets are successful because they have many highly motivated and high achieving students in 1 program. That is why Blair has consistently been at the top of the nation in terms of academics and competitions. It is also why Blair's students are able to organize clubs and tournaments for the community, like their math tournament, which gets a few hundred participants every year. [/quote].

The program as it existed at Blair 10-20 years ago is dead now as well. With the lottery. It won't exist anymore now. Sad to see losing it but it will be something else, maybe lesser and not just for the 200 kids across the county that got seats. There are 160,000 kids in MCPS, 55k high schoolers. Split into the 6 regions that's just under 10k high schoolers per region. Enough to get a good number of high achieving kids for a regional program with 100 seats. The super super exceptional kids can dual enroll at MC. [/quote]

FFS! What is it with this persistent fallacy? It gets repeated here again and again. THERE IS NO LOTTERY FOR BLAIR MAGNET. Do you get that this time? The Blair magnet (currently) is just as rigorous as it’s ever been.[/quote]

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