Takoma Park residents, where do your kids go to HS?

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Blair was originally in Takoma Park but was relocated to downtown SS in the 1930s and to its current location in 1998. The reason it is where it is now is because that's where the county could get sufficient land to build a new HS. The bus ride isn't that bad, at least compared to the other magnet kids who come from much further away.

It's really too bad, given the population boom since 1998, that MCPS wasn't able to keep a high school in DTSS in addition to the new Blair location. We need another downcounty high school.

This is absolutely true. I think the Board needs to demonstrate some problem solving skills here. Be creative! Be solution oriented!

They could use the former Adventist elementary school, which is only a few miles from Blair, to siphon some kids off for part of the day. For example, CAP kids have their classes in half-day blocks. Are magnet kids the same? If you took half the CAP kids and half the magnet kids out for a half day, that's 400 kids out of the school at a time.

Or you don't focus on the CAP and magnet kids, and run some other program half day. With an hour lunch, you can transport the kids back (and then the new group to the campus) during lunch.

Or you don't link it to Blair at all, and set up an entire small HS serving a specific community and they can share extracurriculars with the big high school.

The point would be to get the number of kids on campus a little closer to 2000 and alleviate some of the burden on the infrastructure.

Close in east county just isn't a high priority for the board. They mostly cater to the wealthy west county liberals.

Evidence? Or just your bias showing though?

The evidence is as plain as day. There is NO high school located in that part of Montgomery County. This is different than every other area and demonstrates a clear bias. It is not unlike the county putting the bulk of the low-income housing in the same area for decades.

Which part of MoCo are you talking about? There are several high schools in "close in east county". Perhaps not south of the beltway - the real estate is too expensive there.

There are 0 high-schools close in (inside the beltway and east of the park), but maybe your idea of close in is upper malborro or poolesville.

Where, in the 2 1/2 miles (at its widest) between the beltway and DC/PG lines, do you have 40 acres for a new HS?

They seem to have no problem providing high schools in the wealthy part of the county but always come up short in the less affluent areas.

I suppose they could turn the current SSIMS back into a high school. But then SSIMS would have to go somewhere.

SCES too.

SSIMS could occupy one of the sites they rejected for a HS. A full-sized SCES could occupy the full old Parkside site if the county didn't keep leasing a third of the land to the private, small Acorn Hill Waldorf preschool. Or vice versa.

Equity Memorial HS would be on the new Purple Line. It would need visioneering to go vertical/"use the landscape" (a favorite MCPS construction tetn when convenient)/etc. It would also need an athletic facility and an auditorium. Oh, wait...[facepalm]

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Blair was originally in Takoma Park but was relocated to downtown SS in the 1930s and to its current location in 1998. The reason it is where it is now is because that's where the county could get sufficient land to build a new HS. The bus ride isn't that bad, at least compared to the other magnet kids who come from much further away.

It's really too bad, given the population boom since 1998, that MCPS wasn't able to keep a high school in DTSS in addition to the new Blair location. We need another downcounty high school.

This is absolutely true. I think the Board needs to demonstrate some problem solving skills here. Be creative! Be solution oriented!

They could use the former Adventist elementary school, which is only a few miles from Blair, to siphon some kids off for part of the day. For example, CAP kids have their classes in half-day blocks. Are magnet kids the same? If you took half the CAP kids and half the magnet kids out for a half day, that's 400 kids out of the school at a time.

Or you don't focus on the CAP and magnet kids, and run some other program half day. With an hour lunch, you can transport the kids back (and then the new group to the campus) during lunch.

Or you don't link it to Blair at all, and set up an entire small HS serving a specific community and they can share extracurriculars with the big high school.

The point would be to get the number of kids on campus a little closer to 2000 and alleviate some of the burden on the infrastructure.

Close in east county just isn't a high priority for the board. They mostly cater to the wealthy west county liberals.

Evidence? Or just your bias showing though?

The evidence is as plain as day. There is NO high school located in that part of Montgomery County. This is different than every other area and demonstrates a clear bias. It is not unlike the county putting the bulk of the low-income housing in the same area for decades.

Which part of MoCo are you talking about? There are several high schools in "close in east county". Perhaps not south of the beltway - the real estate is too expensive there.

There are 0 high-schools close in (inside the beltway and east of the park), but maybe your idea of close in is upper malborro or poolesville.

I would count Blair as close-in east county. It literally abuts the beltway. What difference would it make if it were just inside the belway vs outside.

Meanwhile parents who live across the street complain their kids are bused elsewhere since its boundary has nothing to do with its location.

They're not bused elsewhere. They can walk to Northwood too.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

I live in Takoma Park and my son went to Blair. It's a 20 minute car ride. The biggest problem with Blair is that it is adjacent to the beltway and the air pollution over time is a health hazard. For some reason, the issue of schools being located adjacent to interstates/major roads has not been controversial in MoCo. In California, it is highly controversial to locate schools next to interstates/major roads.

https://publicintegrity.org/environment/energy/carbon-wars/the-invisible-hazard-afflicting-thousands-of-schools/

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

I live in Takoma Park and my son went to Blair. It's a 20 minute car ride. The biggest problem with Blair is that it is adjacent to the beltway and the air pollution over time is a health hazard. For some reason, the issue of schools being located adjacent to interstates/major roads has not been controversial in MoCo. In California, it is highly controversial to locate schools next to interstates/major roads.

https://publicintegrity.org/environment/energy/carbon-wars/the-invisible-hazard-afflicting-thousands-of-schools/

I guess MoCo just isn't "woke" enough yet.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Do yourself a favor and live outside the actual city of Takoma Park - you'll save a lot of money by not duplicating tax payment to the City of Takoma Park when you get the same service from Montgomery County. Look at the school catchment areas for the schools you want. You might not need to live in the actual city of Takoma Park.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Blair was originally in Takoma Park but was relocated to downtown SS in the 1930s and to its current location in 1998. The reason it is where it is now is because that's where the county could get sufficient land to build a new HS. The bus ride isn't that bad, at least compared to the other magnet kids who come from much further away.

It's really too bad, given the population boom since 1998, that MCPS wasn't able to keep a high school in DTSS in addition to the new Blair location. We need another downcounty high school.

This is absolutely true. I think the Board needs to demonstrate some problem solving skills here. Be creative! Be solution oriented!

They could use the former Adventist elementary school, which is only a few miles from Blair, to siphon some kids off for part of the day. For example, CAP kids have their classes in half-day blocks. Are magnet kids the same? If you took half the CAP kids and half the magnet kids out for a half day, that's 400 kids out of the school at a time.

Or you don't focus on the CAP and magnet kids, and run some other program half day. With an hour lunch, you can transport the kids back (and then the new group to the campus) during lunch.

Or you don't link it to Blair at all, and set up an entire small HS serving a specific community and they can share extracurriculars with the big high school.

The point would be to get the number of kids on campus a little closer to 2000 and alleviate some of the burden on the infrastructure.

Blair's CAP program is moving to the newly built Woodward High School once Woodward completes its run as a holding school in the near future. I don't care what "study" about this that is now being launched - the early discussions about reopening Woodward included the "benefit" of easing overcrowding at Blair by taking some of Blair's students. How do they do that? By taking a specific, exact number of students - the CAP program -- out of Blair and placing it at Woodward. Don't believe me? Watch. Just what DCC needs - to lose an academic program to west county.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

I live in Takoma Park and my son went to Blair. It's a 20 minute car ride. The biggest problem with Blair is that it is adjacent to the beltway and the air pollution over time is a health hazard. For some reason, the issue of schools being located adjacent to interstates/major roads has not been controversial in MoCo. In California, it is highly controversial to locate schools next to interstates/major roads.

https://publicintegrity.org/environment/energy/carbon-wars/the-invisible-hazard-afflicting-thousands-of-schools/

I guess MoCo just isn't "woke" enough yet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

I live in Takoma Park and my son went to Blair. It's a 20 minute car ride. The biggest problem with Blair is that it is adjacent to the beltway and the air pollution over time is a health hazard. For some reason, the issue of schools being located adjacent to interstates/major roads has not been controversial in MoCo. In California, it is highly controversial to locate schools next to interstates/major roads.

https://publicintegrity.org/environment/energy/carbon-wars/the-invisible-hazard-afflicting-thousands-of-schools/

I guess MoCo just isn't "woke" enough yet.

Maybe you need to take a deep breath.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

I live in Takoma Park and my son went to Blair. It's a 20 minute car ride. The biggest problem with Blair is that it is adjacent to the beltway and the air pollution over time is a health hazard. For some reason, the issue of schools being located adjacent to interstates/major roads has not been controversial in MoCo. In California, it is highly controversial to locate schools next to interstates/major roads.

https://publicintegrity.org/environment/energy/carbon-wars/the-invisible-hazard-afflicting-thousands-of-schools/

I guess MoCo just isn't "woke" enough yet.

So woke is a synonym for informed?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Do yourself a favor and live outside the actual city of Takoma Park - you'll save a lot of money by not duplicating tax payment to the City of Takoma Park when you get the same service from Montgomery County. Look at the school catchment areas for the schools you want. You might not need to live in the actual city of Takoma Park.

Remember that you get a higher chance of being inthe TPMS magnet because the seats reserved for the catchment are disproportionately large in relation to the in-catchment student population when compared with the seats afforded to the rest of the TPMS magnet service area.

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We go to Sidwell.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Blair was originally in Takoma Park but was relocated to downtown SS in the 1930s and to its current location in 1998. The reason it is where it is now is because that's where the county could get sufficient land to build a new HS. The bus ride isn't that bad, at least compared to the other magnet kids who come from much further away.

It's really too bad, given the population boom since 1998, that MCPS wasn't able to keep a high school in DTSS in addition to the new Blair location. We need another downcounty high school.

This is absolutely true. I think the Board needs to demonstrate some problem solving skills here. Be creative! Be solution oriented!

They could use the former Adventist elementary school, which is only a few miles from Blair, to siphon some kids off for part of the day. For example, CAP kids have their classes in half-day blocks. Are magnet kids the same? If you took half the CAP kids and half the magnet kids out for a half day, that's 400 kids out of the school at a time.

Or you don't focus on the CAP and magnet kids, and run some other program half day. With an hour lunch, you can transport the kids back (and then the new group to the campus) during lunch.

Or you don't link it to Blair at all, and set up an entire small HS serving a specific community and they can share extracurriculars with the big high school.

The point would be to get the number of kids on campus a little closer to 2000 and alleviate some of the burden on the infrastructure.

Blair's CAP program is moving to the newly built Woodward High School once Woodward completes its run as a holding school in the near future. I don't care what "study" about this that is now being launched - the early discussions about reopening Woodward included the "benefit" of easing overcrowding at Blair by taking some of Blair's students. How do they do that? By taking a specific, exact number of students - the CAP program -- out of Blair and placing it at Woodward. Don't believe me? Watch. Just what DCC needs - to lose an academic program to west county.

Remove the tinfoil.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Blair was originally in Takoma Park but was relocated to downtown SS in the 1930s and to its current location in 1998. The reason it is where it is now is because that's where the county could get sufficient land to build a new HS. The bus ride isn't that bad, at least compared to the other magnet kids who come from much further away.

It's really too bad, given the population boom since 1998, that MCPS wasn't able to keep a high school in DTSS in addition to the new Blair location. We need another downcounty high school.

This is absolutely true. I think the Board needs to demonstrate some problem solving skills here. Be creative! Be solution oriented!

They could use the former Adventist elementary school, which is only a few miles from Blair, to siphon some kids off for part of the day. For example, CAP kids have their classes in half-day blocks. Are magnet kids the same? If you took half the CAP kids and half the magnet kids out for a half day, that's 400 kids out of the school at a time.

Or you don't focus on the CAP and magnet kids, and run some other program half day. With an hour lunch, you can transport the kids back (and then the new group to the campus) during lunch.

Or you don't link it to Blair at all, and set up an entire small HS serving a specific community and they can share extracurriculars with the big high school.

The point would be to get the number of kids on campus a little closer to 2000 and alleviate some of the burden on the infrastructure.

Blair's CAP program is moving to the newly built Woodward High School once Woodward completes its run as a holding school in the near future. I don't care what "study" about this that is now being launched - the early discussions about reopening Woodward included the "benefit" of easing overcrowding at Blair by taking some of Blair's students. How do they do that? By taking a specific, exact number of students - the CAP program -- out of Blair and placing it at Woodward. Don't believe me? Watch. Just what DCC needs - to lose an academic program to west county.

That will never happen. I heard they would add a vocational magnet @Woodward to attract lower-SES students to improve diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Blair was originally in Takoma Park but was relocated to downtown SS in the 1930s and to its current location in 1998. The reason it is where it is now is because that's where the county could get sufficient land to build a new HS. The bus ride isn't that bad, at least compared to the other magnet kids who come from much further away.

It's really too bad, given the population boom since 1998, that MCPS wasn't able to keep a high school in DTSS in addition to the new Blair location. We need another downcounty high school.

This is absolutely true. I think the Board needs to demonstrate some problem solving skills here. Be creative! Be solution oriented!

They could use the former Adventist elementary school, which is only a few miles from Blair, to siphon some kids off for part of the day. For example, CAP kids have their classes in half-day blocks. Are magnet kids the same? If you took half the CAP kids and half the magnet kids out for a half day, that's 400 kids out of the school at a time.

Or you don't focus on the CAP and magnet kids, and run some other program half day. With an hour lunch, you can transport the kids back (and then the new group to the campus) during lunch.

Or you don't link it to Blair at all, and set up an entire small HS serving a specific community and they can share extracurriculars with the big high school.

The point would be to get the number of kids on campus a little closer to 2000 and alleviate some of the burden on the infrastructure.

Blair's CAP program is moving to the newly built Woodward High School once Woodward completes its run as a holding school in the near future. I don't care what "study" about this that is now being launched - the early discussions about reopening Woodward included the "benefit" of easing overcrowding at Blair by taking some of Blair's students. How do they do that? By taking a specific, exact number of students - the CAP program -- out of Blair and placing it at Woodward. Don't believe me? Watch. Just what DCC needs - to lose an academic program to west county.

That will never happen. I heard they would add a vocational magnet @Woodward to attract lower-SES students to improve diversity.

That's brilliant! They could draw lower-income students with vocational aspirations from the DCC relieving overcrowding while improving west county diversity!

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Anonymous wrote:We live in the city and are exploring neighborhoods in Maryland to move to with our Elementary age kids. Takoma Park is very high on my list.

One issue I can't get past though, is how far away Montgomery Blair is. It's outside the beltway! Is that where most high schoolers go to school? Does it get annoying to have to drive so far every day, for activities, etc? I was hoping to live somewhere where the local schools are really a part of the community, but I'm afraid it will feel disconnected in TP. What has your experience been?

Thanks so much! I'd also love any other points of view on TP, but this is the issue weighing most on my mind.

Blair was originally in Takoma Park but was relocated to downtown SS in the 1930s and to its current location in 1998. The reason it is where it is now is because that's where the county could get sufficient land to build a new HS. The bus ride isn't that bad, at least compared to the other magnet kids who come from much further away.

It's really too bad, given the population boom since 1998, that MCPS wasn't able to keep a high school in DTSS in addition to the new Blair location. We need another downcounty high school.

This is absolutely true. I think the Board needs to demonstrate some problem solving skills here. Be creative! Be solution oriented!

They could use the former Adventist elementary school, which is only a few miles from Blair, to siphon some kids off for part of the day. For example, CAP kids have their classes in half-day blocks. Are magnet kids the same? If you took half the CAP kids and half the magnet kids out for a half day, that's 400 kids out of the school at a time.

Or you don't focus on the CAP and magnet kids, and run some other program half day. With an hour lunch, you can transport the kids back (and then the new group to the campus) during lunch.

Or you don't link it to Blair at all, and set up an entire small HS serving a specific community and they can share extracurriculars with the big high school.

The point would be to get the number of kids on campus a little closer to 2000 and alleviate some of the burden on the infrastructure.

Blair's CAP program is moving to the newly built Woodward High School once Woodward completes its run as a holding school in the near future. I don't care what "study" about this that is now being launched - the early discussions about reopening Woodward included the "benefit" of easing overcrowding at Blair by taking some of Blair's students. How do they do that? By taking a specific, exact number of students - the CAP program -- out of Blair and placing it at Woodward. Don't believe me? Watch. Just what DCC needs - to lose an academic program to west county.

That will never happen. I heard they would add a vocational magnet @Woodward to attract lower-SES students to improve diversity.

That's brilliant! They could draw lower-income students with vocational aspirations from the DCC relieving overcrowding while improving west county diversity!

Oh yes, let's spend taxpayer money to send low income students to segregated programs in rich areas. So smart!