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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On this, I think parent buy-in is irrelevant to MCPS. By the looks of it, MCPS is going to steamroll over everyone to get this done.

And I'm realizing the terminology itself is confusing. MCPS calls it "Program Analysis" while everyone else seems to be calling it "6 Region Model" or similar. [/quote]

They have basically said they are ending the DCC and NEC and countywide magnets and putting :something: in their place so this certainly isn't just an "analysis" (I WISH someone at MCPS knew how to do an analysis) [b]but they can never say what they are actually doing[/b]. This is why parents get angry MCPS CO - you are not honest people.[/quote]

I think they are saying what they are actually doing--the six region model with the common-themed programs in each region. But they haven't explained [i]how[/i] they will be able to do it.[/quote]

We don't actually know what any of the programs will look like or where they will be yet. They have made initial half baked proposals for how to distribute the programs but I sense they are revising that based on how horrifically terrible their choices were.[/quote]

Nah, they're not going to make big changes on how to distribute the programs, both because they don't have time to and because they don't really care about whether their choices are terrible.  (They'll probably make a couple minor changes, brag about how it shows they are considering community feedback and this isn't top-down, and leave everything else the same.)   And because they're not really trying to figure out which programs actually make sense to host at each school-- they're just trying to figure out what's easiest to launch at each school on a short timeline, which is often a really inequitable way of doing things.

The ironic and frankly kind of tragic thing is that their initial case for this program analysis made so much sense-- that the current set of programs were developed over time for a variety of reasons and ended up as a complicated and inequitable hodge-podge, and so MCPS should pause and make some thoughtful and intentional choices about what programs should look like and where they should be located, so they can then make some changes and move towards a new, better, fairer system.

But then they promptly threw all that out the window in favor of "What can we pull together in 6 months and implement in a year under tight budget constraints?"  Which of course is going to result in boatloads of unintended/negative consequences, most of which are highly foreseeable and could be easily avoided if they just slowed down, spent some time really figuring out what it takes to launch new programs and what's realistic, and were willing to solicit and seriously consider feedback from teachers, admin, parents, and students.  Instead the change is just from "old set of programs developed over time and not carefully thought out to make sure programs are strong, access is fair, and the programs are worth their cost and make MCPS stronger rather than weaker" to "new set of programs developed all at once but not carefully thought out to make sure that programs are strong, access is fair, and the programs are worth their cost and make MCPS stronger rather than weaker."  And they don't care who gets hurt as a result or how much money it costs because for some reason they think that's a big enough upgrade to be worth it. [/quote]

What happens when there isn't enough interest in the education program at Einstein? What happens when the SMCS and VAC teachers get poached to other regions? Parents dgaf about what programs are called. They care about whether they actually are delivering what their kids need.[/quote]

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