Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

No they don't. These are elective courses.

Schools can only offer so many classes. So, they are trading one class for another. We are told we have to go to MC and we have to provide transportation come junior year. Not happening.

The pull quote was very short and you still didn't read it. These are electives and no additional funding is provided, plus the course is dependent on enrollment.

They are not treating some hypothetical multivariable calculus class for history of the Jewish peoples. Those are separate classes taught in separate departments and almost certainly by very separate teachers.

These classes sound cool and interesting, and I'm glad there's some sort of mechanism for schools to pilot different electives based on the interests of their student bodies.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

No they don't. These are elective courses.

Schools can only offer so many classes. So, they are trading one class for another. We are told we have to go to MC and we have to provide transportation come junior year. Not happening.

Schools cannot trade out core courses for elective courses. And they can’t force a student to go to MC. AP classes are not core courses. Various electives are not core courses. Core classes are those like English 10,11,12, Alg 2,etc. So while they are trading elective classes it’s likely the ones for which there are the most interest.

Also for DE courses at NC, they provide transportation to the MC campuses.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

No they don't. These are elective courses.

Schools can only offer so many classes. So, they are trading one class for another. We are told we have to go to MC and we have to provide transportation come junior year. Not happening.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

No they don't. These are elective courses.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

No, they don't.

Yes, they do. Pay attention.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What course do you want to see offered in MCPS?

Higher level classes for math, science, English, arts. Our school stops at calculus.

How many students finish Algebra 2 in 9th at your school?

Plenty as well as several students in pre-caculus in 9th. They force kids to take calculus ab then bc then statistics.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

No, they don't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What course do you want to see offered in MCPS?

Higher level classes for math, science, English, arts. Our school stops at calculus.

How many students finish Algebra 2 in 9th at your school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

Right, so MC can stay open.

They get a lot of funding from MCPS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

Right, so MC can stay open.

Anonymous wrote:Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

No, they cut essential ones instead and send kids to Mc.

Anonymous wrote:What course do you want to see offered in MCPS?

Higher level classes for math, science, English, arts. Our school stops at calculus.

Won't lack of funding cut non essential courses?

What course do you want to see offered in MCPS?

Read more here
by A. Campbell, Moco360

[School board approved student-initiated classes.

"Pilot courses and topics are driven by student interests and supported by teachers,"

Pilot course development timeline is a two-to four-year process with the goal of a pilot becoming an official class that can be offered at other schools. No additional funding is provided for schools that offer pilot courses. The courses are electives, so staffing is determined by enrollment, schools can offer a pilot course only if it has sufficient enrollment, so the course doesn’t “pull staffing resources from other noncore elective classes,"

The school board approved three pilot classes for the 2025-2026 school year.

“Hip-Hop Poetics and Rhetoric: Exploring the Golden Age of Hip Hop” to be offered at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring for its first year in the pilot program.

“Jewish Peoplehood Throughout History” at Blair(??).

“Social Justice Through Public Policy” at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda will be in their second year of the pilot process. Those two courses are currently available to students.

The school board also gave final approval for several courses that have already successfully completed the pilot proces.
Includes:
ethnic studies at Poolesville High School

Global Climate Change at Northwood and Walter Johnson high schools

Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality Design (AIVR) at Northwood]