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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My neighbor's kid was in the Kennedy Leadership program. She told me that there were several kids in the school who were wearing monitoring anklets (for criminal offenses). Her kid has since left. [/quote]
Kennedy parent who previously posted here, I know you're passing on second-hand info but a few things:

1) Kennedy does have a skipping problem. Lots of kids skip. If you skip so much to the point that you get referred to Maryland's Truancy Reduction Program, which does include ankle monitoring. I know of at least one student at Kennedy who is in that situation. So I wouldn't assume ankle monitor = criminal offense.

2) Kennedy is a HIGH FARMS school. It's 80%. It's also a Title I school. So the majority of the kids who go there need aid and support in some way. But the IB program is a bubble within the school. Those kids are mostly middle-class and upper-middle class and they take classes together so it's sort of a cohort within the bigger school system. The LTI program is less exclusive than the IB program, but still, there's a minimum GPA and you generally only get in and stay if you get good grades, do your service hours, show up for meetings, etc. Mr. Frempong is the lead of this program and he has a great impact on the kids and they really admire and respect him.

3) Even if all the kids your neighbor's kid saw were in fact criminals and not just truants, the criminality and significant FARMS student population exists at all the DCC schools (Blair, Wheaton, Einstein and Northwood). So the only way to get around that would be to go to the one of the W schools.[/quote]

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