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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh and the assumption that equal shares of kids from each school will leave for programs at other schools is laughable and embarrassing[/quote]

OMG you must be kidding. [/quote]

They've been saying this from the beginning. Their own historical data shows a lot more kids leave some schools than others, but they seem to think that will magically change. They still haven't bothered to survey 4th-7th grade families to see what programs their students are interested in. Supposedly the survey will come out next week. Obviously way too late to make program changes using actual data instead of fantasy projections. Please keep emailing the board with your concerns. [/quote]

It's not too late to make program changes. I'm sure there will continue to be changes in programs long after the board votes. [/quote]

With Mr. O there and the fact that Jessie and Mr. O are good friends, I think he can fine-tune the program allocation in the next year, making more sense of utilization and/or equity. I personally trust Mr. O. But I trusted Julie Yang before, so let's see how long he can sustain in CO without becoming part of the corrupted ones. [/quote]

Who's Jessie?[/quote]
Jessie Franklin, the female sitting on the right-hand side of Mr. O yesterday. She is the lead designer of the entire regional program, and the one told us that it's easy to change a game design program to fashion design program if the former fails. [/quote]

Jeannie Franklin[/quote]

So she is the one who, after facing the complaint from the Woodward community that the art magnet will make the school weak, quickly constructed the AI and data science magnet. I suggest also adding quantum physics and evolutionary biology magnet to sweeten the deal.

I was hopping that Mr. O will make a positive impact on the magnet model design. But it seems that they brought him in only for logistics and that they will go with their 'the more magnets with fancy names the better' philosophy full speed ahead.[/quote]

Every time Jeannie Franklin pats herself on the back for making sure engineering is in all regions, I want to scream.

In the past couple of cycles, 160-200 DCC students were admitted to Wheaton via choice, and all of them have access to the engineering academy there. That's on top of the students who get into the engineering magnet.

In the new model, the engineering program at BCC will have up to 30 seats for non-BCC students per year.

So yes, engineering will be available, but it won't be "abundant" for Blair, Einstein and Northwood students. In fact, if will be dramatically LESS abundant than it is now. 
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To confirm will engineering be only at BCC? There was a set of slides that had it at both BCC and Northwood[/quote]

True, according to the Feb 5 slides, Northwood has Engineering too.[/quote]

I think it will be part of the Middle College program. Students would take engineering at MC. [/quote]

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