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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did they say anything more about timeline?[/quote]

Recommendation on program study and boundary study targeted for December 2025, board approval by Feb 2026 and implementation for the 2026-2027 school year  (ex applications for the new high school programs) if I understood correctly.  [/quote]

Gotcha.  So sounds like the actual changes to programs would then start in the 2027-2028 school year at the earliest?  [/quote]

That’s my understanding-changes will apply for rising 7th graders. [/quote]

So rising 8th graders apply for the existing programs and get to stay in them through the end of high school? I assume they won’t just get kicked out mid way through high school when everything changes? [/quote]

MCPS might let these kids stay as the final countywide magnet class, but it’s a raw deal. With six new regional programs pulling teachers away for better jobs, we’ll likely see staff jumping ship. Competition clubs are going to fizzle out year by year from lack of interest. Resources will dry up , leaving these students stuck in a sinking program. [/quote]

So according to you guys, not only are there supposedly only 100 kids a year in the county who are smart enough to attend the existing magnet before you have to start watering it down with kids who can't handle the curriculum (and who apparently won't be interested in extracurriculars either so all the clubs will disappear?!), but there are also only a handful of teachers in the county good enough to teach at it and none of the other hundreds or thousands of teachers could possibly be trained to?[/quote]

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