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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this is just consortiums for all?  But with less busing?[/quote]

LOL, no. Consortiums involve students making choices for themselves. This proposal is all application programs, where MCPS will control who gets into magnets. See, when kids choose for themselves, they don't pick career training pathways. They pick arts and humanities. MCPS is trying to shut that down.

About 80% of the new programs are designed to help MCPS meet the Blueprint goal of 45% percent of kids graduating with an apprenticeship or professional certification. The only programs designed to be purely for academic enrichment are humanities, SMCS, and IB. That's why the humanities programs are at the richest school in each region. [/quote]

Not true at all.  Many also choose stem.  [/quote]

But not the right kind of STEM. They want to take cool AP science classes, not classes to get certified in safe handling of laboratory equipment or becoming a pharmacy tech.

Not that lab and pharmacy techs aren't great careers. I just think it's unreasonable to expect 13 year old 8th graders to choose those career pathways and stick with them through all four years of high school. [/quote]

It's hilarious that you believe that AP science class are cool ones and not the ones that offer practical skill like safe handling of laboratory equipment or becoming a pharmacy tech. .  Also you neglect to understand that kids that go on to work at NIH, become PharmDs, or even MDs can actually use these classes and skills to both help them get into college and pay for college.[/quote]

Here’s wheaton’s current biomed program:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/wheatonhs/academies/Applicationprograms/

MCPS’s biomedical pathway is in this slide deck.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMJHXR4AA9BD/$file/Boundary%20Studies%20Program%20Analysis%20Update%20251016%20PPT%20REV.pdf

This is the state-approved biomedical pathway.

https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Documents/CTE/standards/HHS_Biomedical_Science-A.pdf

These are the descriptions for AP chem and bio.

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-chemistry

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-biology

MCPS trying to replicate good programs. They’re trying to get kids to take certification exams. That’s the whole goal. [/quote]

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