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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not watch the hearing, but recently heard from a neighbor that there is growing advocacy to push for option B.  Is there truth to this and did it come up in the public meeting?  That option would be terrible for our neighborhood- we are walking sitance to Sligo but kids would be sent to SSIMS- I don't know why that was thrown out there as a potential option to begin with.  So overall I was ok with Taylor's recommendation as it relates to our neighborhood.  It's just hard to keep up with the changes and to anticipate what MCPS will throw out there next.  The options for our neighborhood changed pretty drastically from the first to second round and caught a lot of people off guard.[/quote]

There is some push for original Option B with regard to the now Current WJ cluster (sounds mainly like the Farmland/Luxmanor crew at the BOE mtg), not necessarily rest of map (but clearly would send WW back to Wheaton High).[/quote]

Wasn't there someone from Silver Spring who mentioned it too?  Either way, there were definitely SSiMS folks who wanted to increase the number of kids assigned to SSIMS and wanted to go back to one of the original maps, and I can't imagine the Board would choose the option B map for WJ/Wheaton and a totally different map for Silver Spring...[/quote]

There was also someone who, frankly, seemed pretty unhinged and possibly racist from Flora Singer who testified asking to go back to original Option B because she wanted to stay at Einstein and was mad about being assigned to Northwood which she thought wouldn't have any rigor (she seemed to have very negative views of Northwood which are not backed up at all by anyone I know with kids there.) As someone from Flora Singer myself it was very frustrating because I don't think she's representative of what Singer families want at all but she was the only one who testified so I worry that the Board will think Flora Singer families want option B too.  (Yes, I emailed, but I don't know that it holds the same weight as testimony.)[/quote]

oh wow- is there video of the meeting?  I'm curious who this is because I agree that does not seem representitive of what I've heard from other Flora SInger parents.[/quote]

This was the written testimony she submitted, which to my recollection is fairly close to what she said out loud: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DRLRFU6DD4F1/$file/Dawn%20Brosnan%20Boundary%20Study%20Reaction%20-%20Flora%20Singer%20West%20-%20Feb%202026.pdf

She seems to have some weird idea that IB is the only way you can have rigor so that makes Einstein the most rigorous school, which is funny because I hear many Einstein parents complaining that the school is not rigorous enough-- it gets praised for its arts focus, not for its rigor.  We are on the side of Georgia which would be going to Northwood either way and the kids going to the same school is way more important to me than Einstein vs Northwood which both seem like perfectly fine schools, but honestly I slightly prefer Northwood of the two because parents of non-artsy kids seem happier with it.  Not sure if she really is that obsessed about IB (or the driving distance she mentions, which is actually very similar to Northwood and Einstein) or if it is basically all cover for the fact that right now Northwood has a higher FARMS rate and less white kids than Einstein (although ironically under the Superintendent's recommendations, the future Northwood will have basically the same number of FARMS kids and white kids as Einstein does now, but she probably doesn't realize it.)[/quote]

Is Einstein losing IB?  They don’t have many ap classes, no math past calc, and no so science.  Very limited computer science and engineering.  Arts are hit or miss.  The tester teacher has brought in a renewed energy. It really varies by the teacher, like anything but arts at Einstein are also very limited.  It’s also lacking clubs. They really need new leadership to bring in new and innovative things.  [/quote]

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