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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Montoya has her flaws, but I’m super glad she mentioned all the unpopular things MCPS is doing and how it’s affecting enrollment. [/quote]

She’s also the only one that seems to understand board members have a role in this and can break the cycle by intervening where needed. [/quote]

Some people said on this board said she has a kid in compacted math. She has skin in the game, and can see how frustrating some MCPS decisions are first hand.[/quote]

She voted to destroy high school magnets. I wonder if her kid was in HS at the time of the vote, what would have been her vote? Do board members care only about their kids?[/quote]

If her kids are at some schools, its not really a big deal as they will have the opportunities.  The bigger issue is the DCC and NEC.[/quote]

+1  And some of us don't think the changes to the magnets are bad.  It's bad for the 100 ultra-talented kids who won't get their gold-plated STEM opportunities in quite the same way at Blair, but it's better for many other kids are also smart but whose schools had no advanced offerings.[/quote]

It is also bad for thousands of kids in the DCC and NEC who previously had transportation from their neighborhoods to attend schools with offerings that rich kids have at their home schools because that transportation is being taken away. In many cases DCC kids also no longer have access to established programs near their homes and have to travel to a further school to access half baked programs. All because MCPS and the BOE subscribe to a bizarre definition of "equity" that apparently is about bussing highly motivated and well resourced kids from lower income schools to higher income schools.[/quote]

But what about the many thousands more who do not have that currently.  Heck even for the little bit of magnet opportunity that exist for kids outside the DCc/NEC, they don’t have access to it with transportation from their neighborhood.[/quote]

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