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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the “special programs” are used to pull kids from the rich (W schools) into the less funded schools. They are the last vestiges of integration and busing programs, made attractive.[/quote]

This, magnets, consortiums and the lot are used not for enrichment but as reverse bussing programs to help prop up schools with slipping attendance like Poolesville or Blair’s changing demographics. It’s a perception and student balancing act. When whole areas have a stigma they created the consortiums so that the middle class could still sell their houses even if zoned for a Kennedy or Einstein since the new owners would default to a “choice”.

They don’t have the sweeten pot for the W’s, the peer group does it for them. They have the opposite problem of keeping people out and don’t want to create too many ways in save for large mortgages. BCC fought like hell to stay out of the consortium and for other proposals over the years like closing Rosemary Hills back in the 80s that allowed poor silver spring kids to go to BCC. The program at Whitman is a token to introduce a few high achieving Spanish and Black kids to the richest and least diverse school in the county to combat the Whiteman stigma and prop up that schools diversity achievement scores which are now used in rankings. Again central office engineering[/quote]

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