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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any DCC people/orgs starting to pull things together?  People we should contact if we want to get involved?  Facebook groups or listservs where we can communicate about this?  (If folks are creating new ones, probably makes sense for it to be focused on looking out for the DCC's interests both around the boundary study and program analysis/proposed DCC abolishment?  Or just a broader DCC-families-united type group that can include but not be limited to advocacy for those goals?)  Sign-on letters being drafted and circulated?

I don't have the capacity to start any of them myself but would love to plug in if they're moving elsewhere.  And I think if we don't start organizing and coordinating ourselves in those ways we're not going to succeed.[/quote]

What issues do you see as common for the "DCC Community" to advocate around in regards to the boundary study and program analysis? The reality is the DCC is large with a lot of economic diversity. My home is in-bounds for Einstein. I've had kids at Blair and Einstein and of course know families with kids at other DCC schools. These are middle class and upper middle class families (the most likely to know about these issues and to advocate), and I'm not sure there would be a lot of agreement amongst them about what we should be advocating for in terms of the DCC community.[/quote]

The whole point is solidarity.  Why are DCC schools still dealing with overcrowding under these options and the richer schools aren't?   Why wasn't there any effort made to make things a little easier on DCC schools by shifting some of the demographics a bit (and before you say it, this has nothing to do with not wanting poorer kids in our schools and everything to do with the challenges of running a high FARMS school and the way those challenges are unequally distributed)?  Why are tons of our kids having to deal with split articulation and almost none of the rich schools' kids?

We are not all going to be dealing with all of these issues.  Some of us may not be dealing with any of them.  But coming together to look beyond our narrow interest towards the broader unfairness here, and supporting our neighbors on their issues as they support us in ours, is the whole point.[/quote]

Northwood is getting a brand new school (that likely can be built out more for future growth) that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Wheaton was rebuilt several years ago.[/quote]

A remind me again when was the last time Whitman had a major renovation? Oh that’s right - a $25 million minor addition in 2019-2021. Before that, you’d have to go back to the early 1990s for a major renovation. And yet you all complain of inequality between schools. It’s not about the facility but the students and community support. No reasonable amount of money is going to change that short of moving to a more socialized economic system. [/quote]

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