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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also it’s my understanding regional magnets have significant set asides for kids in the host school. So if both criteria based magnets are at BCC it makes it easier for BCC kids to get in (since ~30% spots reserved for them whereas remaining 70% spots have to be split among the other schools in the region).[/quote]

Specialized magnets for the rich kids, virtual precalc for middle class kids[/quote]

I heard one ES under Einstein couldn’t even secure a compact math teacher, so the 4th grade compact math class needs to take virtual class with a few other schools (not sure what other ESs are), but this sounds pretty sad.

What are you even talking about? Every school has in-person precalc.[/quote][/quote]

It’s not that the school couldn’t secure a compacted math teacher. It’s that there is no longer funding for a compacted math class that is below the size of a regular class. If there are fewer students who qualify for compacted math than whatever the minimum amount of students needed for a class, they put them in a virtual class with students from other similarly situated schools. I believe this is a direct downstream effect of the CES given the number of students the school sends to the CES and the fact that most if not all of those students would also qualify for compacted math. If MCPS would get rid of the regional CES program and offer the curriculum as an in-school curriculum for all the students who qualify instead of making it a lottery, it would not only be fair to the kids who qualify for the CES but currently don’t have access to it, but it would also solve the problem of stupid things like virtual math. [/quote]

Yeah... the fact that MCPS has *4th graders* taking virtual math, but not 12th graders can't take MV Calculus virtually is just...?![/quote]

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