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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They discuss Young Scholars at my kids school. No one seems to care. The STEM after school offerings fill up in no time flat. There are kids doing various STEM Clubs and events. I think most people are comfortable with the idea that they can afford a better program so that is what they do.

Some folks want to be outraged just to be outraged.[/quote]

My child's school has Young Scholars and we are not aware of any STEM events or clubs after school.[/quote]

I am guessing, and it is only a guess, that the schools that have a larger Young Scholars program in FCPS probably don't have a very large or active PTA. Our school has an active PTA that offers a wide variety of extra curricular activities, although it has been slow to restart after COVID. My kid had the option to join coding club, robotics club, chess club, and the like as an after school activity. There are other STEM options that are regularly announced and advertised in the area. Kids who are interested in STEM have a ton of opportunities. I don't even know if our school has a Young Scholars program. We are not a high FARMs or ESOL school with a high white and Asian population. One parent asked about Young Scholars at the AAP meeting when my kid was n second grade but the AART said that the school did not have a program since do few of the kids would meet the criteria for inclusion based on how the County runs the program.

DS participates in math and science enrichment. He has plenty of friends who do the same thing. I would bet that what he does is a higher quality program then what the county could provide.

I would guess that the Young Scholars program is active at the Title 1 schools, were there are fewer opportunities for all of the kids, and at the near Title 1 schools. It sounds like the program is open to a wide variety of kids so ask about it. [/quote]

You would be right.  My DC was in YS at a Title 1 school.  Because we were Title 1, there was a full time AART.  Because there wasn't a LLIV program, the AART had a robust YS program to compensate.  I don't think YS is a one size fits all program.  We had a Summer Science Academy that was awesome.  That was funded through a grant of some sort that I think came from a private company in the area.

I guess my point is that depending on the situation at each school, YS can be very different, but the admission criteria is standard.

At the risk of sounding smug, I'll say that we are not low income but a biracial family.  It was really nice to see my kid hanging out with other inquisitive minds, doing a fun project in the community, and learning from a very young age that great people come from all different walks of life.  Fun fact:  DC didn't experience racism until later on at a high SES elementary school.  Turns out a higher income school population with more access to just about everything didn't result in a better education.  It was worse.  [/quote]

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