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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has turned into a total circus with these regions.

Arts magnets? Seriously? Do they not understand the modern economy

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/22/mcps-programming-changes/[/quote]

I think an arts program is fine, if done well. But my takeaway from today’s presentation is how many programs/ideas the district is proposing, and I struggle to understand how so many things can be done well. Meanwhile, are the basics done well? I’m fairly new to MCPS and my kid is still in elementary but even from that minimal experience, it doesn’t seem that way. [/quote]

+1 the absolute obsession with the specialty programs on DCUM is really something.[/quote]

If your kid was in 7th grade, losing access to the existing magnet programs, your high school was dumped with all the high Farms schools, and giving the host school seats, with a very very watered down magnet in a poorly performing high school, you will say something different.

My kid is zoned for QO, wants to do STEM - Kid will be with Watkins Mills (81.8% Farms), Gaithersburg (76.6 Farms), Magruder (62.6% Farms),  and probably just as high Farms rate with the new Crown HS, with the STEM program in Gaithersburg. How do you think that will work out? Do you think the Watkins Mills IB program is a success? Kid would just have to stay in QO and do AP courses even if they are interested in STEM because it will not be worth it to go to a poorly performing school with a brand new magnet program.

QO is closest to Poolesville and we lose access to it while Damascus gets in. See how they keep all the "right" demographics together? QO would have been like that if they had not bussed the FARMS kids to the ES serving it.

Humanities and Arts in QO and STEM in Gaithersburg. SMH.

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