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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Of course students can stay in their home schools and not specialize in anything. The majority of students will be like that.

The fact that people are confused about this shows just how bad MCPS comms are.

Thanks, I'm the poster of that question and felt gaslit that the answer wasn't on the MCPS website- the ParentVue/Email we got yesterday made it seem like you had to pick a program!

It seems like MCPS is over-estimating the number of 8th-graders who have a specific academic/career plan and are ready to specialize.

For stem and humanities there is an interest but not in things like the teaching programs. But it’s school dependent and they did not ask the students.

I found even the Humanities program pretty niche-seeming and limiting. You're committing to taking certain classes like Art History, Media Criticism, etc that some kids who are lit/history buffs may not be interested in necessarily. For 90% of kids, staying at your home school is more flexible and is probably better than one of these programs.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Of course students can stay in their home schools and not specialize in anything. The majority of students will be like that.

The fact that people are confused about this shows just how bad MCPS comms are.

Thanks, I'm the poster of that question and felt gaslit that the answer wasn't on the MCPS website- the ParentVue/Email we got yesterday made it seem like you had to pick a program!

It seems like MCPS is over-estimating the number of 8th-graders who have a specific academic/career plan and are ready to specialize.

For stem and humanities there is an interest but not in things like the teaching programs. But it’s school dependent and they did not ask the students.

Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Yes, they can stay at their home school. Einstein only has 2-3 ap classes for English. There are not a lot of AP classes at Einstein and the principal is not willing to add more. They may have added one for 10th this year but not sure so they’d have to do IB. They have to apply and be selected to go to Whitman. If they aren’t selected their only choice is Einstein.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Of course students can stay in their home schools and not specialize in anything. The majority of students will be like that.

The fact that people are confused about this shows just how bad MCPS comms are.

Thanks, I'm the poster of that question and felt gaslit that the answer wasn't on the MCPS website- the ParentVue/Email we got yesterday made it seem like you had to pick a program!

It seems like MCPS is over-estimating the number of 8th-graders who have a specific academic/career plan and are ready to specialize.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Of course students can stay in their home schools and not specialize in anything. The majority of students will be like that.

The fact that people are confused about this shows just how bad MCPS comms are.

Thanks, I'm the poster of that question and felt gaslit that the answer wasn't on the MCPS website- the ParentVue/Email we got yesterday made it seem like you had to pick a program!

After looking at so many half-baked pathways on that site, I am beginning to see the strategy.

Classes, teachers, that is all secondary. The idea is to create many mini cohorts of students with similar interests and hope that they will lift each other up. That is why they are adding random magnets with no vision on how to execute them whatsoever. They expect that kids will figure it out.

So people trying to nitpick about specific classes, and why is physics going before calculus, and why is business class in the art magnet, are just wasting their time. The architects of this model don't believe that is important at this stage and expect that kids will figure it out over time and that programs will evolve accordingly.

It is ironic that this approach is what some equity advocates resent the most. Their belief is that their kids are capable but don't have access to right resources. If only they had access to some class with a fancy name, like MVC, the sky would be limit. This model is telling them - the only resource you are gonna get is other smart kids; observe them and learn from them.

It is actually not a bad concept. However, it will not help introvert kids, and parents with no resources, nor energy and time, to supplement weak curriculums through extra activities (AoPS, RSM, ...) will stay frustrated.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Of course students can stay in their home schools and not specialize in anything. The majority of students will be like that.

The fact that people are confused about this shows just how bad MCPS comms are.

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Anonymous wrote:Berated?
Three members spent their time grandstanding on nothing in the hopes of getting a sound bite for their bid for CE. At the end of the day, MCPS did well. $ for turf still on the table. And pressure on depots receded.

You missed a lot. Taylor didn't. He knows what Councilmembers said about his administration of MCPS.

I missed NOTHING. That council meeting and the absolute disorganization made the BOE meetings look like Roberts Rules in action.
As for Taylor? He isn’t going anywhere.

Anonymous wrote:can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Of course students can stay in their home schools and not specialize in anything. The majority of students will be like that.

can someone clarify whether a student has to select one of these programs? Can they enroll in their home school and take a variety of classes including APs but not specialize in anything?

For example, I think my kid would like a humanities program but Whitman is a treacherous commute. Could he just do humanities and AP english classes at Einstein?

Anonymous wrote:Berated?
Three members spent their time grandstanding on nothing in the hopes of getting a sound bite for their bid for CE. At the end of the day, MCPS did well. $ for turf still on the table. And pressure on depots receded.

You missed a lot. Taylor didn't. He knows what Councilmembers said about his administration of MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Wanna have some fun? Look through the new regional program website for all the errors MCPS didn't catch before taking it live. My favorite is the front page on the button for regions where they left template text in so it says "This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action."

"AP Enrollment in Music Theory junior year" is another good one.



https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/program-themes/

Wow. The M.ad M.omm.ies of M.oC.o are really deranged. Imagine being so unbalanced that you would post something like this and expect people to guffaw knowingly.

Thanks Taylor and minions, for checking in. Now ef-off.

Sorry to disappoint you. I'm just a dad in Virginia. Just chuckle at all the Big Mad mommies complaining about Montgomery schools all the time. It's like you're a caricature of yourselves.

Yes, Thomas we know you are from Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:Wanna have some fun? Look through the new regional program website for all the errors MCPS didn't catch before taking it live. My favorite is the front page on the button for regions where they left template text in so it says "This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action."

"AP Enrollment in Music Theory junior year" is another good one.



https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/program-themes/

Wow. The M.ad M.omm.ies of M.oC.o are really deranged. Imagine being so unbalanced that you would post something like this and expect people to guffaw knowingly.

Thanks Taylor and minions, for checking in. Now ef-off.

Sorry to disappoint you. I'm just a dad in Virginia. Just chuckle at all the Big Mad mommies complaining about Montgomery schools all the time. It's like you're a caricature of yourselves.

In other words - a troll with nothing to contribute on the regional model topic

Berated?
Three members spent their time grandstanding on nothing in the hopes of getting a sound bite for their bid for CE. At the end of the day, MCPS did well. $ for turf still on the table. And pressure on depots receded.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wanna have some fun? Look through the new regional program website for all the errors MCPS didn't catch before taking it live. My favorite is the front page on the button for regions where they left template text in so it says "This is a wider card with supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. This card has even longer content than the first to show that equal height action."

"AP Enrollment in Music Theory junior year" is another good one.



https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/regional-programs-and-themes/program-themes/

Wow. The M.ad M.omm.ies of M.oC.o are really deranged. Imagine being so unbalanced that you would post something like this and expect people to guffaw knowingly.

Thanks Taylor and minions, for checking in. Now ef-off.

Sorry to disappoint you. I'm just a dad in Virginia. Just chuckle at all the Big Mad mommies complaining about Montgomery schools all the time. It's like you're a caricature of yourselves.