Brainstorming refinements to Option 3 of Woodward Boundary Study

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Anonymous wrote:What is the goal with this plan? I’m not in the loop.

Option 3? That plan? Purportedly its focus is demographics. It appears to try (unsuccessfully) to equalize FARMS rates across the high schools in the Woodward boundary study.

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Anonymous wrote:in looking again at Option 3 in terms of leveling out FARMS rates across at least high schools, is the juice worth the squeeze? The only really big difference in terms of just that one metric (%FARMS) across options looks like Whitman. It goes from 6% FARMS to 20%. It seems like you could just do something far less disruptive in terms of busing kids all over the county to increase the FARMS rate at Whitman.

Example is what has been proposed in this thread -- let FARMS kids lottery into Whitman, provide central bus locations.

That will be an awesome option for some families.

That just takes the most motivated kids with supportive parents out of the high farms schools which then become even worse with less opportuntities

Yeah, for this among other reasons, the lottery thing makes no sense.

Either they should amend option 3, or just lean in on having the most desirable magnets at the poorest schools.

This is what they need to do. Move the desirable magnets to Kennedy. Problem solved.

Isn't there an IB magnet at Kennedy already? Why isn't it as popular as the one at Richard Montgomery? Is it just that people don't want to go to Kennedy, or are there other things that could be changed to make it more desirable?

Kennedy is one of the the rougher schools. Many want ap, not ib. They don’t have a lot of high level classes.

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Anonymous wrote:in looking again at Option 3 in terms of leveling out FARMS rates across at least high schools, is the juice worth the squeeze? The only really big difference in terms of just that one metric (%FARMS) across options looks like Whitman. It goes from 6% FARMS to 20%. It seems like you could just do something far less disruptive in terms of busing kids all over the county to increase the FARMS rate at Whitman.

Example is what has been proposed in this thread -- let FARMS kids lottery into Whitman, provide central bus locations.

That will be an awesome option for some families.

That just takes the most motivated kids with supportive parents out of the high farms schools which then become even worse with less opportuntities

Yeah, for this among other reasons, the lottery thing makes no sense.

Either they should amend option 3, or just lean in on having the most desirable magnets at the poorest schools.

This is what they need to do. Move the desirable magnets to Kennedy. Problem solved.

Isn't there an IB magnet at Kennedy already? Why isn't it as popular as the one at Richard Montgomery? Is it just that people don't want to go to Kennedy, or are there other things that could be changed to make it more desirable?

Kennedy is one of the the rougher schools. Many want ap, not ib. They don’t have a lot of high level classes.

They are trying to “fix” demographics at Kennedy by busing in kids who would go to WJ under current boundaries.