All the boundary options are bad for the DCC-- how do we organize against that? (Any ideas for alternative options?)

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Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.

[Anonymous]

Why do kids at a school need to “demand” course offerings? Why can’t these things just be standard!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do kids at a school need to “demand” course offerings? Why can’t these things just be standard!

Funding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.

That’s about overall numbers not about demand for advanced coursework. The whole purpose of the DCC was so that kids interested in a thing could go to a different school. Ergo it seems, based on the statements here, that the critical mass of students needed to support a class is lotterying to a different school.

Whatever draw Einstein had in the DcC did not appear to be the offering of advanced class work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.

That’s about overall numbers not about demand for advanced coursework. The whole purpose of the DCC was so that kids interested in a thing could go to a different school. Ergo it seems, based on the statements here, that the critical mass of students needed to support a class is lotterying to a different school.

Whatever draw Einstein had in the DcC did not appear to be the offering of advanced class work.

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It seems like the DCC gives more resourced students nice options and leaves less resourced students at an unbalanced school where a 3rd of students have left and the ones that come in their place are all focused on what Einstein has, not what it lacks

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.

That’s about overall numbers not about demand for advanced coursework. The whole purpose of the DCC was so that kids interested in a thing could go to a different school. Ergo it seems, based on the statements here, that the critical mass of students needed to support a class is lotterying to a different school.

Whatever draw Einstein had in the DcC did not appear to be the offering of advanced class work.

The DCC academies weren't focused on advanced class work, they were focused on themed elective tracks.

[Anonymous]

They will add the neighborhoods that scream the loudest to WJ and Woodward. That will alleviate crowding at the less desirable schools. End of story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.

That’s about overall numbers not about demand for advanced coursework. The whole purpose of the DCC was so that kids interested in a thing could go to a different school. Ergo it seems, based on the statements here, that the critical mass of students needed to support a class is lotterying to a different school.

Whatever draw Einstein had in the DcC did not appear to be the offering of advanced class work.

The DCC academies weren't focused on advanced class work, they were focused on themed elective tracks.

Understood. Do other schools in the DCC offer the advanced coursework that Einstein lacks? Would a student interested in that advanced coursework lottery into the other school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They will add the neighborhoods that scream the loudest to WJ and Woodward. That will alleviate crowding at the less desirable schools. End of story.

You're not looking at the options they produced. "The less desirable schools" remain overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.

That’s about overall numbers not about demand for advanced coursework. The whole purpose of the DCC was so that kids interested in a thing could go to a different school. Ergo it seems, based on the statements here, that the critical mass of students needed to support a class is lotterying to a different school.

Whatever draw Einstein had in the DcC did not appear to be the offering of advanced class work.

The DCC academies weren't focused on advanced class work, they were focused on themed elective tracks.

Understood. Do other schools in the DCC offer the advanced coursework that Einstein lacks? Would a student interested in that advanced coursework lottery into the other school?

Yes, Blair and Wheaton would be the STEM-oriented schools which Einstein students might try to lottery into. But there are only a limited number of spots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They will add the neighborhoods that scream the loudest to WJ and Woodward. That will alleviate crowding at the less desirable schools. End of story.

You're not looking at the options they produced. "The less desirable schools" remain overcrowded.

I think you are missing PP's point that MCPS is outsourcing analysis and decision-making to communities based on who makes the biggest fuss. Because MCPS central office is pure trash.

[Anonymous]

Move if you don't like it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.

That’s about overall numbers not about demand for advanced coursework. The whole purpose of the DCC was so that kids interested in a thing could go to a different school. Ergo it seems, based on the statements here, that the critical mass of students needed to support a class is lotterying to a different school.

Whatever draw Einstein had in the DcC did not appear to be the offering of advanced class work.

The DCC academies weren't focused on advanced class work, they were focused on themed elective tracks.

Some are which is why Wheaton and Blair have advanced classes. Seperate but equal is fine but it’s not equal right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move if you don't like it.

No.