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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all of the comments.  It has nothing to do with what the parents want, it about test scores.  The schools with significant needs often have lower test scores.  To counter that, MCPS put programs for advanced students into those schools to help bring up those test scores. [/quote]

And this doesn’t actually help the majority of kids at the school, just helps to make the problem by having the more resourced kids in a segregated part of the school.

It’s very Nice White Parents.[/quote]

Many of us are fine with no regional programs, just strengthen the home school. Our kids are not in segregated programs. They are in interest based programs that are being put at risk by:
- creating new magnet programs that mimic our interest based programs at other schools and
- Dissolving the DCC which allows kids to select schools based on their interests (it isn't perfect and should probably be dissolved but in a thoughtful way that builds on what schools have built)[/quote]

The new model also allows kids to select schools based on their interest. It just isn't limited to the DCC and instead seeks to make sure all students in MCPS have this option PLUS it seeks to strengthen all home schools, which in the end serve the most students. [/quote]

It's not clear at all to me how they are going to strengthen the home schools.

Also they aren't making access to local programs equal. Whitman and BCC each have their own engineering programs for example. DCC students have accessed engineering at Wheaton. Now under the new proposal DCC students can share the engineering program at Blair while BCC and Whitman students stay at their home schools. Fine, but in the meantime BCC and Whitman will siphon off a bunch of the humanities oriented kids from Einstein, Northwood and Blair to their and humanities magnet programs. So the humanities offerings at those three schools will decrease. Why are they doing this? BCC and Whitman kids don't need this, they already have the course offerings at their home schools.[/quote]

The latest slides changes Blair’s engineering program to technology. There’s not engineering magnet in region 1. So ONLY Whitman and BCC kids get engineering. [/quote]

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