Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would some schools only offer 2 programs, while other schools have like 6 programs?

I think those schools will be fine because they have a ton of local programs.

My concern is actually that schools with many different programs will be stretched too thin. Jack of all trades, master of none type thing.

Anonymous wrote:Why do regions 1 and 6 separate theatre and music? There are so many kids who do both and school musicals benefit from having strong musicians in the school.

+1

Anonymous wrote:Why do regions 1 and 6 separate theatre and music? There are so many kids who do both and school musicals benefit from having strong musicians in the school.

Fashion design will be jammed.

Why do regions 1 and 6 separate theatre and music? There are so many kids who do both and school musicals benefit from having strong musicians in the school.

Anonymous wrote:Hoping someone can link me to a table showing the specific academic programs designated for each school under the new regional model. Thanks! I found an outline from October 2025, but I think the plans have been revised since then.

This honestly doesn’t make sense to me. Why is Einstein being given random medical and healthcare programs instead of fully investing in the arts the way Blake and Woodward are? If these programs are receiving additional funding, why not put that money into areas that are already proven to succeed?

Einstein’s dance program made it to regionals and is now struggling just to fund continued participation. Why introduce brand-new programs while established, high-performing ones are being left to scrape by?

And more importantly, where is MCPS getting the money for transportation and staffing to support separate regional magnet programs at every school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Region 1 both BCC and Northwood show up as having engineering. Is that a typo?

No. BCC has PLTW and I think anyone can do it. Do that would be the “interest based” one, maybe fleshed out a little more. Northwood would have a criteria based one like Wheaton’s current magnet.

Are you sure about that? I don't recall seeing the engineering program listed at Northwood before. And Wheaton is the only school that has a criteria based engineering program.

Things program model makes no sense. Some schools have 4&5 programs others schools have 2. And them including the note “ doesn’t include local programs” tells me that there are ot seriously understanding what it takes to make programs successful.

Anonymous wrote:None of this matters if Taylor follows through saying that all kids who meet the criteria get into the criteria magnet and all kids who apply to an interest magnet get in. No more lotteries. But what a headache for staffing, transportation and resources. School populations will be way different than his charts predict. Any kid currently in compacted math will have to go to their region’s stem magnet to fill the required 4 years of math under the new IM pathway that MCPS refuses to do in 3 years as MSDE suggests.

What are you talking about? It’s MSDE requiring the new 2yr IM pathway. A 3yr would be much easier to implement because vendors already had that.

None of this matters if Taylor follows through saying that all kids who meet the criteria get into the criteria magnet and all kids who apply to an interest magnet get in. No more lotteries. But what a headache for staffing, transportation and resources. School populations will be way different than his charts predict. Any kid currently in compacted math will have to go to their region’s stem magnet to fill the required 4 years of math under the new IM pathway that MCPS refuses to do in 3 years as MSDE suggests.

Anonymous wrote:In Region 1 both BCC and Northwood show up as having engineering. Is that a typo?

No. BCC has PLTW and I think anyone can do it. Do that would be the “interest based” one, maybe fleshed out a little more. Northwood would have a criteria based one like Wheaton’s current magnet.

In Region 1 both BCC and Northwood show up as having engineering. Is that a typo?

Anonymous wrote:Why would some schools only offer 2 programs, while other schools have like 6 programs?

I think those schools will be fine because they have a ton of local programs.

Why would some schools only offer 2 programs, while other schools have like 6 programs?

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DQZPAX63BCF7/$file/Rec%20Secondary%20Prog%20Analysis%20Boundary%20Studies%20260205%20PPT.pdf

Slide #6, 7, 8, 9

Hoping someone can link me to a table showing the specific academic programs designated for each school under the new regional model. Thanks! I found an outline from October 2025, but I think the plans have been revised since then.