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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What needs to be mentioned is the challenge for the school district.   I get it, we all want our child to be challenged at their highest level and supported.  However, a school district and one with 160K students, has to offer its programming and support at scale.  This is the exact problem with Special Education. People get IEP plans, which while valid and likely would help, have nothing to do with the personnel or operations to implement them.

What do I mean by this? Imagine your kid is math advanced and will take MV by junior year. You want them to keep moving forward and so do they.  Next stop Linear Algebra. But only a very small number of kids need to take this course. Meanwhile a much larger number of kids need to take Alg2. So a LA course with 12 people is offered meanwhile all the Alg2 classes have 30 kids. Next stop folks complaining about class sizes.  The district agrees that smaller class sizes would be helpful all around; for kids, teachers, for outcomes. But, the constraints are the constraints. There’s the real budget, there’s a set salary scale for all teachers, there’s a non ideal teaching situation limiting the hiring pool. And to top it off, parents can’t be reasoned with that LA doesn’t need to be a highschool course offering and students should take it at the university.

How do you solve that problem?  Either you just stop offering LA and/or you stop offering or severely limit Alg1 in 6th which stops the pipeline of students needing the course.  This is the reality. You all are arguing and fighting the wrong problem with the wrong people. Go talk to politicians to get them to support real true education and family life reform and innovation, both in concept and dollars.

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Hence why we need to continue county-wide magnet programs for these small number of high achievers to not ending up reversing the path (MC is a worse choice in terms of logistics, and virtual academy might be a viable way, but since it's has already been cut....). [/quote]

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