DCC programs?

[Anonymous]

Why only for DCC kids? Is it like a magnet thing?

[Anonymous]

Cynically, they created the DCC to entice UMC/MC parents not to leave the area for "better" schools.

Happily, the area in-bounds for various DCC high schools is large and diverse and often a great place to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cynically, they created the DCC to entice UMC/MC parents not to leave the area for "better" schools.

Happily, the area in-bounds for various DCC high schools is large and diverse and often a great place to live.

So extra resources has been used and benefits for kids only in this area? And kids in other area in the same county don’t need it?

[Anonymous]

There was a whole report done about the history of this in 2016. You can read all of it here.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/choice/report-archive.aspx

The sections on History and Context and High School Consortia in particular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cynically, they created the DCC to entice UMC/MC parents not to leave the area for "better" schools.

Happily, the area in-bounds for various DCC high schools is large and diverse and often a great place to live.

So extra resources has been used and benefits for kids only in this area? And kids in other area in the same county don’t need it?

Move to the DCC if you want these extra resources and benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cynically, they created the DCC to entice UMC/MC parents not to leave the area for "better" schools.

Happily, the area in-bounds for various DCC high schools is large and diverse and often a great place to live.

So extra resources has been used and benefits for kids only in this area? And kids in other area in the same county don’t need it?

Move to the DCC if you want these extra resources and benefits.

Exactly, as the PP quoted. Move here. It's a large area, and there are plenty of affordable housing options, more so than in-bounds for W schools and BCC.

[Anonymous]

Einstein’s art teachers recently set up an Amazon wish list to get supplies for their Academy classes, and the theater program lacks the equipment to run their lighting software. There aren’t nearly as many resources bring funneled into these DCC Academy programs as one might think.

But I suspect you already know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Einstein’s art teachers recently set up an Amazon wish list to get supplies for their Academy classes, and the theater program lacks the equipment to run their lighting software. There aren’t nearly as many resources bring funneled into these DCC Academy programs as one might think.

But I suspect you already know that.

DCC is an area with wealthy family and they send their kids to private school? MCPS want to attach the students?

There are programs like biomedical and it says helpful for premed, which sounds super advanced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Einstein’s art teachers recently set up an Amazon wish list to get supplies for their Academy classes, and the theater program lacks the equipment to run their lighting software. There aren’t nearly as many resources bring funneled into these DCC Academy programs as one might think.

But I suspect you already know that.

I was kinda surprised a parent didn't donate a computer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cynically, they created the DCC to entice UMC/MC parents not to leave the area for "better" schools.

Happily, the area in-bounds for various DCC high schools is large and diverse and often a great place to live.

So extra resources has been used and benefits for kids only in this area? And kids in other area in the same county don’t need it?

Move to the DCC if you want these extra resources and benefits.

Why extra resources does the DCC get?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cynically, they created the DCC to entice UMC/MC parents not to leave the area for "better" schools.

Happily, the area in-bounds for various DCC high schools is large and diverse and often a great place to live.

So extra resources has been used and benefits for kids only in this area? And kids in other area in the same county don’t need it?

Move to the DCC if you want these extra resources and benefits.

Why extra resources does the DCC get?

None. Title I schools get more funding and resources overall. This is a troll thread. I think one of the people commenting was the same one who wanted to control all PTA contributions centrally by taking money away from "rich school" PTA's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Einstein’s art teachers recently set up an Amazon wish list to get supplies for their Academy classes, and the theater program lacks the equipment to run their lighting software. There aren’t nearly as many resources bring funneled into these DCC Academy programs as one might think.

But I suspect you already know that.

DCC is an area with wealthy family and they send their kids to private school? MCPS want to attach the students?

There are programs like biomedical and it says helpful for premed, which sounds super advanced.

While there are some private families for sure the real reason for the programs was to combat white flight when the DCC became the first area in MoCo to start getting an influx of poorer minorities. It also helped by getting more affluent parents to bus their kids from other areas where the backlash of bussing the poor kids west would have been untenable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cynically, they created the DCC to entice UMC/MC parents not to leave the area for "better" schools.

Happily, the area in-bounds for various DCC high schools is large and diverse and often a great place to live.

So extra resources has been used and benefits for kids only in this area? And kids in other area in the same county don’t need it?

Move to the DCC if you want these extra resources and benefits.

Why extra resources does the DCC get?

None. Title I schools get more funding and resources overall. This is a troll thread. I think one of the people commenting was the same one who wanted to control all PTA contributions centrally by taking money away from "rich school" PTA's.

Its not as much as you think. Not for the extras. In the K-2nd you get smaller class sizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Einstein’s art teachers recently set up an Amazon wish list to get supplies for their Academy classes, and the theater program lacks the equipment to run their lighting software. There aren’t nearly as many resources bring funneled into these DCC Academy programs as one might think.

But I suspect you already know that.

DCC is an area with wealthy family and they send their kids to private school? MCPS want to attach the students?

There are programs like biomedical and it says helpful for premed, which sounds super advanced.

While there are some private families for sure the real reason for the programs was to combat white flight when the DCC became the first area in MoCo to start getting an influx of poorer minorities. It also helped by getting more affluent parents to bus their kids from other areas where the backlash of bussing the poor kids west would have been untenable

The Choice program doesn’t bus anyone from outside the DCC. You’re thinking of the purported reasoning behind the larger magnet programs. If you’re zoned for a DCC high school, you get to indicate which of the DCC high schools you prefer. But kids at Churchill or Walter Johnson don’t get to opt for Northwood or Wheaton if they want to attend a certain program.

But the DCC schools all have similar demographics, and I think the largest numbers of people sending kids to private schools are probably in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. I doubt any of the DCC high schools’ Academy programs are aimed at drawing those families away from their religious schools.

[Anonymous]

Honestly why would anyone not in the DCC care?

If you do, come walk around our neighborhoods and see all the yard signs for Blair/Kennedy/Wheaton or SSFS or Lowell or whatever.