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Anonymous wrote: I'm just confused how this will work:

Lets assume High School A currently has 2,000 kids.
Let's just assume for sake of argument they would all want to stay at High School A. Now let's assume that 400 kids from other schools apply to be in the regional program at High School A.

What happens? Are 400 kids from High School A moved to other schools, even though their home school is their first pick? Is there a priority for staying in your neighborhood school?

I'm trying to figure out if this is like the NYC model, where kids have to apply for basically any school and most kids are not at all guaranteed to go to the school closest to their home. Everyone seems to hate that system.

Or is it more like the current magnet system, where you always have a spot at your home school but there's an option to apply for a program at another school if you want.

No, it's basically like the current magnet system. You are assigned to your home school unless you apply for and accept a spot at a different school. So in your scenario, if everyone from school A stays at school A and they also host programs with a capacity of 400, the school would just be overcapacity or they might choose to shrink that program or move it to another school to address the capacity issues.

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Anonymous wrote:Before my kid started MCPS I used to not fully understand all the complaining. But we are only 1.5 years in and I just can't with these people. This is all just a huge, expensive distraction from the reality that they are graduating a large majority of kids not graduate proficient in math and reading.

Yep - how much is this regional disaster going to cost us?

And in the meantime, the school district is writing its own English Language Arts curriculum for high schools. You might have wondered why that refrigerator curriculum looked haphazard and cast such a low bar. Why can't we buy externally developed and externally evaluated curriculum as the Maryland Blueprint requires? Because we are spending untold millions on implementing up to 100 ill-designed regional programs that will also utilize homemade curriculum.

hahahaha.. another 2.0 disaster. My kids started MCPS when they implemented 2.0, and I was willing to give it a chance. I defended it on this forum. What I dummy I was. 2.0 was a freakin disaster and MCPS thinks they can write their own curriculum at the HS level?

So glad we are done with MCPS this spring.

HS level curricula have been MCPS-created, including the Magnets.

Magnet curriculum is created essentially by a handful of talented teachers targeted at the current magnet student body. For example, discrete math follows the AOPS intermediate number theory with adding in a lot of college-level proofing concepts, which is too easy for students who regularly attend various math competitions, but too hard to students who only master AP Calc and AP stat but do not have math competition experience. Now we are talking about implementing this course to 6 programs with largely diluted math competitor student body. This equals to a death announcement for this course basically.

Or a change for the course to accommodate those who don’t do math competitions on the weekend nor whose parents haven’t been math prepping them since ES.

Why should kids who have mastered AP Calc an AP Stars not be qualified to take Discrete math?

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Anonymous wrote:Before my kid started MCPS I used to not fully understand all the complaining. But we are only 1.5 years in and I just can't with these people. This is all just a huge, expensive distraction from the reality that they are graduating a large majority of kids not graduate proficient in math and reading.

Yep - how much is this regional disaster going to cost us?

And in the meantime, the school district is writing its own English Language Arts curriculum for high schools. You might have wondered why that refrigerator curriculum looked haphazard and cast such a low bar. Why can't we buy externally developed and externally evaluated curriculum as the Maryland Blueprint requires? Because we are spending untold millions on implementing up to 100 ill-designed regional programs that will also utilize homemade curriculum.

hahahaha.. another 2.0 disaster. My kids started MCPS when they implemented 2.0, and I was willing to give it a chance. I defended it on this forum. What I dummy I was. 2.0 was a freakin disaster and MCPS thinks they can write their own curriculum at the HS level?

So glad we are done with MCPS this spring.

HS level curricula have been MCPS-created, including the Magnets.

Magnet curriculum is created essentially by a handful of talented teachers targeted at the current magnet student body. For example, discrete math follows the AOPS intermediate number theory with adding in a lot of college-level proofing concepts, which is too easy for students who regularly attend various math competitions, but too hard to students who only master AP Calc and AP stat but do not have math competition experience. Now we are talking about implementing this course to 6 programs with largely diluted math competitor student body. This equals to a death announcement for this course basically.

Anonymous wrote:Do HS kids normally stay at after school to attend activities or do class project?

Anonymous wrote: I'm just confused how this will work:

Lets assume High School A currently has 2,000 kids.
Let's just assume for sake of argument they would all want to stay at High School A. Now let's assume that 400 kids from other schools apply to be in the regional program at High School A.

What happens? Are 400 kids from High School A moved to other schools, even though their home school is their first pick? Is there a priority for staying in your neighborhood school?

I'm trying to figure out if this is like the NYC model, where kids have to apply for basically any school and most kids are not at all guaranteed to go to the school closest to their home. Everyone seems to hate that system.

Or is it more like the current magnet system, where you always have a spot at your home school but there's an option to apply for a program at another school if you want.

Anonymous wrote:Sort of off topic but transportation related.
If my kid does a sport there are only busses on Tues and Thurs. So my kid has to get picked up on the other days.
We can do that somehow, but that makes sports not equitable either if the kid cant get home after practice.

Anonymous wrote: I'm just confused how this will work:

Lets assume High School A currently has 2,000 kids.
Let's just assume for sake of argument they would all want to stay at High School A. Now let's assume that 400 kids from other schools apply to be in the regional program at High School A.

What happens? Are 400 kids from High School A moved to other schools, even though their home school is their first pick? Is there a priority for staying in your neighborhood school?

I'm trying to figure out if this is like the NYC model, where kids have to apply for basically any school and most kids are not at all guaranteed to go to the school closest to their home. Everyone seems to hate that system.

Or is it more like the current magnet system, where you always have a spot at your home school but there's an option to apply for a program at another school if you want.

Anonymous wrote: I'm just confused how this will work:

Lets assume High School A currently has 2,000 kids.
Let's just assume for sake of argument they would all want to stay at High School A. Now let's assume that 400 kids from other schools apply to be in the regional program at High School A.

What happens? Are 400 kids from High School A moved to other schools, even though their home school is their first pick? Is there a priority for staying in your neighborhood school?

I'm trying to figure out if this is like the NYC model, where kids have to apply for basically any school and most kids are not at all guaranteed to go to the school closest to their home. Everyone seems to hate that system.

Or is it more like the current magnet system, where you always have a spot at your home school but there's an option to apply for a program at another school if you want.

Anonymous wrote:Sort of off topic but transportation related.
If my kid does a sport there are only busses on Tues and Thurs. So my kid has to get picked up on the other days.
We can do that somehow, but that makes sports not equitable either if the kid cant get home after practice.

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Anonymous wrote:Im confused
we are in the NE consortium right now
Blake/ PB/Springbrook. I know that Sherwood is getting added to make our region.
Are you saying that if I live in PB area but my kid goes to Blake, there will be no bus from close to my house?
How do you all know this already. It hasnt even started?

The Board is voting to end the NE Consortium and the Down County Consortium in a few weeks. All students will be assigned to their home school, no options to rank/pick a consortium. They have a proposal for launching new regional programs that kids can apply to at the other schools in their regions (your region is the current NEC schools plus Sherwood), but if your child is accepted and wants to go it appears that there will be very limited transportation to those programs.

Anonymous wrote:Im confused
we are in the NE consortium right now
Blake/ PB/Springbrook. I know that Sherwood is getting added to make our region.
Are you saying that if I live in PB area but my kid goes to Blake, there will be no bus from close to my house?
How do you all know this already. It hasnt even started?