Is St. Mary’s County Schools cheating your child to save face?

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madleo

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St. Mary’s County Schools is starting an engineering program for grade schoolers according to an article that ran in last weeks Enterprise (week of 10-9-06)

It basically features a special technology program for elementary students that focuses on math, science, and technology and is geared for preparing students to enter the field of engineering.

What infuriates me is how our county school system is implementing this program!

They claim that it would be featured in Lexington Park Elementary and Carver I believe?? They stated that the proximity to the Navy base and the supporting contractors was the primary reason. :lalala: And the secondary reason was TO RAISE THE PERFORMANCE SCORES OF THESE SCHOOLS!!!

See this website for our counties elementary school scores:
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_compare/md?area=d&district=20&level=e&sortby=name&tab=over


Wait one minute here! Location has nothing to do with it! Heck plenty of people live all over the county and drive on base. All over the state for that matter. Our school board is really out to make a handful of kids smarter in these schools to raise their poor performance scores is what this is all about!

Why don’t they work on fixing the real problems in these schools instead of putting duct tape on it and denying other children the chance for a program like this. These kinds of programs are not new in case you think they are. It's being done all over the country. But the selective part I'm not sure about.

Should you child be denied a program like this because they go to one of the “better” schools in the county? I tried to find a copy of this article to post a link but could not find it. Maybe someone can find it and get it posted.

Call St. Mary’s County Public Schools and tell them your children deserves a program like this too, and they should not be punished because they are in a better performing school.

http://www.smcps.k12.md.us/offices/boe/aboutus.shtml

Leo
 
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MMDad

MMDad

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madleo said:
Should you child be denied a program like this because they go to one of the “better” schools in the county? I tried to find a copy of this article to post a link but could not find it. Maybe someone can find it and get it posted.

Call St. Mary’s County Public Schools and tell them your children deserves a program like this too, and they should not be punished because they are in a better performing school.
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From the emptyprise:

Still to be determined is a process for choosing students for the academies. Students from throughout the county will have a chance to enroll in the academies.
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You should really read the article. It is very informative, and does not back up your allegations.
 
kwillia

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madleo said:
St. Mary’s County Schools is starting an engineering program for grade schoolers according to an article that ran in last weeks Enterprise (week of 10-9-06)

It basically features a special technology program for elementary students that focuses on math, science, and technology and is geared for preparing students to enter the field of engineering.

What infuriates me is how our county school system is implementing this program!

They claim that it would be featured in Lexington Park Elementary and Carver I believe?? They stated that the proximity to the Navy base and the supporting contractors was the primary reason. :lalala: And the secondary reason was TO RAISE THE PERFORMANCE SCORES OF THESE SCHOOLS!!!

See this website for our counties elementary school scores:
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_compare/md?area=d&district=20&level=e&sortby=name&tab=over


Wait one minute here! Location has nothing to do with it! Heck plenty of people live all over the county and drive on base. All over the state for that matter. Our school board is really out to make a handful of kids smarter in these schools to raise their poor performance scores is what this is all about!

Why don’t they work on fixing the real problems in these schools instead of putting duct tape on it and denying other children the chance for a program like this. These kinds of programs are not new in case you think they are. It's being done all over the country. But the selective part I'm not sure about.

Should you child be denied a program like this because they go to one of the “better” schools in the county? I tried to find a copy of this article to post a link but could not find it. Maybe someone can find it and get it posted.

Call St. Mary’s County Public Schools and tell them your children deserves a program like this too, and they should not be punished because they are in a better performing school.

http://www.smcps.k12.md.us/offices/boe/aboutus.shtml

Leo
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If they have a select few schools in which to start such a program, I have no problem with them chosing a school that statistically scores lower. If the program in fact works as designed just think of increase in productive, educated young adults that could come of such a program. If the students sleected for the program take it seriously and us it to their advantage... I'm all for it...:yay:
 
Vince

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If it's the same program I'm thinking about, Leonardtown High School has had this for years. It's a great program that gears the High School kids, that want to go into the Engineering Field when they graduate, towards that direction while still in High School. Some take college courses while they are Seniors and Engineering courses in the High School. I thought it was a great program. :yay:
 
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Dymphna

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The two schools mentioned are the only Title I schools in the county. Title I schools get more money from the federal government to improve programs. The money has to be used at these schools and cannot be shifted to another school.

Wanna bet the new program costs money? Where do you think the money is coming from? Have you ever noticed that ALL new programs, from all day kindergarten to the 11 month school year are started at these two schools? Why do you think that is?
 
virgovictoria

virgovictoria

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Dymphna said:
The two schools mentioned are the only Title I schools in the county. Title I schools get more money from the federal government to improve programs. The money has to be used at these schools and cannot be shifted to another school.

Wanna bet the new program costs money? Where do you think the money is coming from? Have you ever noticed that ALL new programs, from all day kindergarten to the 11 month school year are started at these two schools? Why do you think that is?
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Higher concentration of :shortbus: riders? :whistle:



j/k!!!
 
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Barnacle

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Vince said:
If it's the same program I'm thinking about, Leonardtown High School has had this for years. It's a great program that gears the High School kids, that want to go into the Engineering Field when they graduate, towards that direction while still in High School. Some take college courses while they are Seniors and Engineering courses in the High School. I thought it was a great program. :yay:
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No, it's different. These will be magnet schools.
 
crabcake

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Barnacle said:
No, it's different. These will be magnet schools.
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Don't blow off the opportunity to have these programs in the school system and available to your kids. Not all kids learn the same, or have the same interests or strengths. Our county school had a lot of different offerings and schedules for kids (traditional schedules, year round, etc.) and it's great. :yay:
 
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