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[quote=Anonymous]https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/SpEdglance/currentyear/schools/04815.pdf

Kennedy

70%+ FARMs

68% Hispanic

Less than 5% White

Nobody should be surprised about truancy at Kennedy. Nobody.

But the hardline approach won’t fix the problem.

The county should be concerned…and not just mcps.

We have a growing population of poorly educated students who may or may not graduate. They aren’t all newcomers; some are first or second generation American citizens. That means they are eligible for public benefits.

That area has transitioned to a majority Latino area coupled with a longtime poor black population (garden apartments). It’s an entire community surrounded by other communities with similar demographic shifts.

Affluent families are moving to the western side of the community or the northern parts. Some are leaving the county altogether…meaning our tax base is shrinking.

Big problems.

I bet you a million bucks if Kennedy and its feeder schools converted to a Cristo Rey holistic education approach (with wrap-around anti-poverty efforts for the families) you would see dramatic results. It would be money well spent.

Someone should get Soros funding for a pilot and study the results. 
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