Anonymous
03/21/2026 20:26
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MCPS has been lying since October.
The Program Deign Team (who MCPS "deigns" to share their designs to) was notified that the criteria programs will be lottery based.
The non-lottery version, announced after parent resistance in October, was a lie to get parents off MCPS's back
Equity and Opportunity in MCPS are cancelled.
Ironically, MCPS middle scholers are studying Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" this week.
A lottery is fine, as long as all entrants actually meet the criteria for admission.
The devil is in the details. What should the criteria be - meeting the lowest bar or the highest bar? Right now, looks like the lowest bar.
Also high/low FARMS school have different bars now. Is it fair?
Correct for current CES and MS magnet. They published the threshold like 2 years ago. High farm threshold is 60% on map-r for CES lottery pool, while low farm threshold threshold is 95%.
Anonymous
03/21/2026 14:05
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor is hellbent on driving our school district to the bottom.
It's almost there now.
Please, you don’t know what a bad district looks like. So what a few marginal schools lose prop up programs that serve a few hundred kids. The district serves almost 160k students. There are still plenty of strong schools and strong students will still get a strong education.
I’m sure a few weaker schools will get a reality check when they are gauged by only there local cohorts but a couple will emerge as parents flock to what ever is deemed most desirable out of their options. There will always be a rebalancing after a shift and all the whiners are most likely parents of kids who would never make competitive programs but merely salty about their locality losing what ever status they thought they had. Truth is any school that thinks they will take a hit was really already negatively perceived by the masses
You don’t understand the disparities within the schools and how many kids go without so adding more magnets and upper level courses is a good thing. We either have to move or go private while you still get everything and yet we all pay the same in taxes.
I totally agree that increasing access to high-level courses is definitely a positive thing that I support 100%, the current regional program layout and roll-out plan is nothing closer to move that that direction, but quite opposite direction. I think most people are against the regional program because of this disastrous plan.
It will benefit the wealthy schools and create a bigger divide as many of us cannot do the transportation nor want our kids at the schools with the programs our kids need.
Anonymous
03/21/2026 14:04
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MCPS has been lying since October.
The Program Deign Team (who MCPS "deigns" to share their designs to) was notified that the criteria programs will be lottery based.
The non-lottery version, announced after parent resistance in October, was a lie to get parents off MCPS's back
Equity and Opportunity in MCPS are cancelled.
Ironically, MCPS middle scholers are studying Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" this week.
A lottery is fine, as long as all entrants actually meet the criteria for admission.
The devil is in the details. What should the criteria be - meeting the lowest bar or the highest bar? Right now, looks like the lowest bar.
Also high/low FARMS school have different bars now. Is it fair?
The schools don't have the same educational opportunities like accelerated math and english. We got nothing but compacted math. What did your kids get?
Anonymous
03/21/2026 13:41
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MCPS has been lying since October.
The Program Deign Team (who MCPS "deigns" to share their designs to) was notified that the criteria programs will be lottery based.
The non-lottery version, announced after parent resistance in October, was a lie to get parents off MCPS's back
Equity and Opportunity in MCPS are cancelled.
Ironically, MCPS middle scholers are studying Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" this week.
A lottery is fine, as long as all entrants actually meet the criteria for admission.
The devil is in the details. What should the criteria be - meeting the lowest bar or the highest bar? Right now, looks like the lowest bar.
Also high/low FARMS school have different bars now. Is it fair?
Anonymous
03/21/2026 13:13
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MCPS has been lying since October.
The Program Deign Team (who MCPS "deigns" to share their designs to) was notified that the criteria programs will be lottery based.
The non-lottery version, announced after parent resistance in October, was a lie to get parents off MCPS's back
Equity and Opportunity in MCPS are cancelled.
Ironically, MCPS middle scholers are studying Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" this week.
A lottery is fine, as long as all entrants actually meet the criteria for admission.
The devil is in the details. What should the criteria be - meeting the lowest bar or the highest bar? Right now, looks like the lowest bar.
Anonymous
03/21/2026 10:32
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:MCPS has been lying since October.
The Program Deign Team (who MCPS "deigns" to share their designs to) was notified that the criteria programs will be lottery based.
The non-lottery version, announced after parent resistance in October, was a lie to get parents off MCPS's back
Equity and Opportunity in MCPS are cancelled.
Ironically, MCPS middle scholers are studying Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" this week.
A lottery is fine, as long as all entrants actually meet the criteria for admission.
Anonymous
03/21/2026 09:59
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
The regional program is meaningless without policies, accountability and consequences for principals.
Anonymous
03/21/2026 09:21
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor is hellbent on driving our school district to the bottom.
It's almost there now.
Please, you don’t know what a bad district looks like. So what a few marginal schools lose prop up programs that serve a few hundred kids. The district serves almost 160k students. There are still plenty of strong schools and strong students will still get a strong education.
I’m sure a few weaker schools will get a reality check when they are gauged by only there local cohorts but a couple will emerge as parents flock to what ever is deemed most desirable out of their options. There will always be a rebalancing after a shift and all the whiners are most likely parents of kids who would never make competitive programs but merely salty about their locality losing what ever status they thought they had. Truth is any school that thinks they will take a hit was really already negatively perceived by the masses
You don’t understand the disparities within the schools and how many kids go without so adding more magnets and upper level courses is a good thing. We either have to move or go private while you still get everything and yet we all pay the same in taxes.
I totally agree that increasing access to high-level courses is definitely a positive thing that I support 100%, the current regional program layout and roll-out plan is nothing closer to move that that direction, but quite opposite direction. I think most people are against the regional program because of this disastrous plan.
The regional plan creates more disparities as there will not be a lot of slots and transportation issues. We cannot make the transportation work.
Anonymous
03/21/2026 01:28
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor is hellbent on driving our school district to the bottom.
It's almost there now.
Please, you don’t know what a bad district looks like. So what a few marginal schools lose prop up programs that serve a few hundred kids. The district serves almost 160k students. There are still plenty of strong schools and strong students will still get a strong education.
I’m sure a few weaker schools will get a reality check when they are gauged by only there local cohorts but a couple will emerge as parents flock to what ever is deemed most desirable out of their options. There will always be a rebalancing after a shift and all the whiners are most likely parents of kids who would never make competitive programs but merely salty about their locality losing what ever status they thought they had. Truth is any school that thinks they will take a hit was really already negatively perceived by the masses
You don’t understand the disparities within the schools and how many kids go without so adding more magnets and upper level courses is a good thing. We either have to move or go private while you still get everything and yet we all pay the same in taxes.
I totally agree that increasing access to high-level courses is definitely a positive thing that I support 100%, the current regional program layout and roll-out plan is nothing closer to move that that direction, but quite opposite direction. I think most people are against the regional program because of this disastrous plan.
Anonymous
03/21/2026 00:48
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor is hellbent on driving our school district to the bottom.
It's almost there now.
Please, you don’t know what a bad district looks like. So what a few marginal schools lose prop up programs that serve a few hundred kids. The district serves almost 160k students. There are still plenty of strong schools and strong students will still get a strong education.
I’m sure a few weaker schools will get a reality check when they are gauged by only there local cohorts but a couple will emerge as parents flock to what ever is deemed most desirable out of their options. There will always be a rebalancing after a shift and all the whiners are most likely parents of kids who would never make competitive programs but merely salty about their locality losing what ever status they thought they had. Truth is any school that thinks they will take a hit was really already negatively perceived by the masses
You don’t understand the disparities within the schools and how many kids go without so adding more magnets and upper level courses is a good thing. We either have to move or go private while you still get everything and yet we all pay the same in taxes.
Anonymous
03/20/2026 21:45
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Taylor is hellbent on driving our school district to the bottom.
It's almost there now.
Please, you don’t know what a bad district looks like. So what a few marginal schools lose prop up programs that serve a few hundred kids. The district serves almost 160k students. There are still plenty of strong schools and strong students will still get a strong education.
I’m sure a few weaker schools will get a reality check when they are gauged by only there local cohorts but a couple will emerge as parents flock to what ever is deemed most desirable out of their options. There will always be a rebalancing after a shift and all the whiners are most likely parents of kids who would never make competitive programs but merely salty about their locality losing what ever status they thought they had. Truth is any school that thinks they will take a hit was really already negatively perceived by the masses
Anonymous
03/20/2026 20:18
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Taylor is hellbent on driving our school district to the bottom.
It's almost there now.
Anonymous
03/20/2026 20:18
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curriculum 2.0 (is that what it was called?) was such a complete disaster.
I hope MCPS learns from that…
No, it didn't. MCPS is still developing homemade curriculum, e.g., high school English.
HS, for some classes have textbooks but there is no requirement for the teachers to use them so few do. We've ask for the textbook and the teachers specifically say they don't use them. Some of it is on MCPS for not requiring it and some of it is on the teachers for refusing to use them, even for AP classes.
Anonymous
03/20/2026 20:10
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Anonymous wrote:Taylor is hellbent on driving our school district to the bottom.
He is REALLY good at that aspect of his job.
Anonymous
03/20/2026 20:05
Subject: Blind item: Regional criteria "magnets" will be lottery
Taylor is hellbent on driving our school district to the bottom.