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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not find the parents arguments for keeping the system as is in the Bethesda magazine article convincing at all. One parent mentioned how her kid got to take quantum mechanics at Blair. No one needs to take quantum mechanics in HS and if that is indeed your jam, you can take a college class for it. 
Also, parents of a 4th grader expressing concern that their kid is on track to take multivariable calculus in 9th grade and what will the kid do then. Almost no students are ready to take multivariable calculus in 9th grade. And if they are, then take the next class at MC or UMD or virtual. Public school systems are not designed to serve the tiniest of tiny percentage of outliers. There is a case for regional magnets[/quote]

Public schools can differentiate to meet the needs of a variety of student cohorts. If magnet schooling isn't something you see happening for your student, MCPS has plenty of other choices. The school district doesn't need to stop the current magnets to provide additional programming. Why is this an either/or situation?[/quote]

Exactly. Taylor claims he's moving from a model of scarcity to one of abundance. If that's the case then why not keep the county-wide programs AND create more regional options. Why is this presented as an either/or situation? Why is MCPS cutting down its highest ranking programs to spite itself?

Don't tell me this is about the availability of busses, because what they're proposing is radically expanding transportation needs.

Taylor is dynamiting whatever goodwill or social capital he had coming in as a new superintendent. This plan is totally senseless.[/quote]

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