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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute.  Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein? [/quote]

Of course students can stay in their home schools and not specialize in anything. The majority of students will be like that.[/quote]

The fact that people are confused about this shows just how bad MCPS comms are.[/quote]

Thanks, I'm the poster of that question and felt gaslit that the answer wasn't on the MCPS website- the ParentVue/Email we got yesterday made it seem like you had to pick a program![/quote]

It seems like MCPS is over-estimating the number of 8th-graders who have a specific academic/career plan and are ready to specialize. [/quote]

For stem and humanities there is an interest but not in things like the teaching programs.  But it’s school dependent and they did not ask the students.  [/quote]

I found even the Humanities program pretty niche-seeming and limiting. You're committing to taking certain classes like Art History, Media Criticism, etc that some kids who are lit/history buffs may not be interested in necessarily. For 90% of kids, staying at your home school is more flexible and is probably better than one of these programs.[/quote]

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