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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still think it's not happening after the MCCPTA CIP Chair testified for it last year before the Board of Education?  Read the story in the new Bethesda Magazine (not available on line or I'd post a link). They are definitely headed in that direction.

Why? Because they (County Council, Board of Education and Superintemdent Smith) believe it will solve the opportunity gap.[/quote]

It won’t solve any gap, it will just hide poor Latino and black test scores in higher performing schools while subjecting them to being shipped to the corners of the county for the privilege of being “those” kids. If the board gets too aggressive they will have to develop costly magnet or specialized programs to placate the local higher SES parents or risk similar white flight that other parts of the county are experiencing. If they don’t they risk losing the halo schools status as such which will reverberate across the real estate and tax base putting the system in jeopardy of destabilization.

I can see Woodward being included in the DCC as a token but halos Churchill, Whitman and BCC will be left completely alone. [/quote]

It's not halos.  It's geography.  You are either going to have some schools with largely wealthy populations, or you are going to have boundaries that make little sense geographically and have kids busing across the county rather than going to a school nearby.[/quote]

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