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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After looking at so many half-baked pathways on that site, I am beginning to see the strategy.

Classes, teachers, that is all secondary. The idea is to create many mini cohorts of students with similar interests and hope that they will lift each other up. That is why they are adding random magnets with no vision on how to execute them whatsoever. They expect that kids will figure it out.

So people trying to nitpick about specific classes, and why is physics going before calculus, and why is business class in the art magnet, are just wasting their time. The architects of this model don't believe that is important at this stage and expect that kids will figure it out over time and that programs will evolve accordingly.

It is ironic that this approach is what some equity advocates resent the most. Their belief is that their kids are capable but don't have access to right resources. If only they had access to some class with a fancy name, like MVC, the sky would be limit. This model is telling them - the only resource you are gonna get is other smart kids; observe them and learn from them.

It is actually not a bad concept. However, it will not help introvert kids, and parents with no resources, nor energy and time, to supplement weak curriculums through extra activities (AoPS, RSM, ...) will stay frustrated.
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Do you have high school kids in advanced classes?  AP physics is a calc based class and heavy math.  Kids cannot easily figure it out and much of it isn’t offered at the lesser schools which is the bigger issue.  Kids cannot travel to other schools with parents providing transportation.  That alone is a huge divide.  The limited offerings at some schools is a huge divide.  The fact that principals have refused to provide classes listed in this slides at their schools in years past, will make these programs nonexistent.  What it will come down to, like now is the principal.  There is no reason Mcps cannot align the high school schedules and offer advanced classes virtually or have teachers do split days at two nearby schools, if necessary and pay them a transportation stipend and give them one less class to travel back and forth.  So many creative options.  Or, bus the kids between schools that do offer the classes.  Smart kids not at the W schools, BCC, Blair or Wheaton will continue not to get their needs met, like now.  [/quote]

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