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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS is still great for top students. But if you are not in that top 10 percent that can take advantage of all the classes and opportunities, it has definitely gone downhill. MCPS and principals made some choices. [/quote]

It WAS great for top students.  If you see some of the discussions in the threads about the regional model, most of the supporters say that the focus shouldn't be on the small subset of high performing students but the majority of the students who may not have access to upper level classes.  Where basically they are saying they are okay if these new programs are the same as a regular honors class currently offered at another school.

And for my own kids we see the change when our kid's school got a new principal who kind of us about this whole new initiative.  Where the focus is on the lower performing students and the curriculum and tracks for all are slowed down.  Not even for the ones in the same school but instruction within the school year (not the end of the school year) stops because the class is ahead of the rest of the school system with the curriculum.

I posted above that I don't think MCPS is a horrible school system.  But families do need to make sure to do extra if they want to keep their students at a certain level.  In some ways it's always been like this.  But I think more recently it's been treated as unfair or wrong that some students are higher performing then others.  Or if they are, they're one dimensional and only focused on studying.[/quote]

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