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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will not sign, and my kids have both been in a magnet. One graduated in 2025, and the other is in HS.

It's been a good experience for them, but there's far too much talent in the county to limit the participation to a few hundred students per grade level per year.[/quote]

This. Regional magnet programs are a good idea. [/quote]

+1 The "I got mine" posters are out in force, including hijacking parent chat groups at TPMS.

No. More opportunity is good and if we have to "dilute" classes that only 10 kids per year take in MCPS, so be it.[/quote]
Those classes that only 10 kids take won’t be diluted; they’ll be eliminated because those 10 kids will be distributed among many schools, none of which will have the talent pool to field enough students for these classes. That’s how these STEM programs will be diluted. We’ll have many good programs and no exceptional ones.[/quote]

If the very good programs provide access to 3x the number of students, as long as the delta between exceptional and very good isn't too large, then that is a win from the perspective of maximizing educational benefit across the county.[/quote]
I trust the SMCS teachers to know how big the delta is between very good STEM cohorting and exceptional STEM cohorting.

When we were in a race to develop the atomic bomb first or put a man on the moon first, we needed lots of very smart people to work together and a handful of geniuses to get us across the finish line. It seems like it would be beneficial to cater our educational system to both.[/quote]

LOL. How many high schoolers contributed to the atomic bomb? Perhaps more importantly, how much quicker would we have advanced as a country if we had not been gatekeeping science jobs all those years? Providing a high quality education to every kid in the county, regardless of whether they passed a certain test or got help with a certain essay in 8th grade, is far more important to the future of our nation than maintaining a bubble of privilege for the favored few. [/quote]
But we could have these [i]good[/i] STEM programs for all of the advanced students in each region and keep the [i]exceptional[/i] STEM programs for the very, very advanced students. Why not augment what we already offer to give opportunity to more students without taking away opportunity we already offer?[/quote]

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