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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of this matters unless you’re in a Chinese immersion. MCPS confirmed Chinese would be the only WL option in the new Regional Program Services model.[/quote]

That's for high school.

Middle school immersion and all middle school magnet programs are TBD until they figure out whether middle schools are going to have to drop down to only one elective period a year to meet the state requirement for 60 minutes a day of math-- they will reassess after that but I suspect will just cut all the immersion and magnet programs if the state mandate stands. (Or maybe magnets will stay if they can find enough kids willing to skip all foreign language, music, arts, or other electives in order to be in a magnet and use their only elective spot for a magnet elective.  That would probably solve the problem of there being way more interested kids than spaces available...)[/quote]

With the state plan for MS requiring 300 minutes/week I'm not sure that there is time for even 6 equally timed periods.  In that case, elective (or magnet-class) scheduling may be reduced to half periods.[/quote]

Even apart from implications to magnet programs, this seems so crazy I keep thinking surely this won't end up happening.  But maybe that's wishful thinking.[/quote]

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