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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sherwood may be marginally better than Blair, but for twice the commute it isn't worth it to us. If we had horses or worked from home maybe.

People here are very happy with elem options and Blair. I can't speak to the other DCC schools.[/quote]

marginally better?

lol!

The only plus to Blair is magnet/CAP.  That's what gives Blair its reputation.  It's a school w/in a school, and b/c of the magnet - and now with the DCC (aka - school "choice") - there's no community.  That's what happened to PB and Springbrook.  The consortium destroyed the neighborhoods, especially with the addition of Blake, which has NO true home base.

Sherwood opted out of the consortium b/c they knew it would create fragmentation. It's bad enough that Rosa Parks has split articulation - as does Farquhar to some extent.  But it has a better community than the NEC and DCC, which is what helps schools function.

So you can compare all you want about test scores and this and that.  I prefer that my children feel as though they're part of a community.  And having lived in the NEC and worked in an NEC "cluster," we realized that community just wasn't there.

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So families living in Silver Spring aren't part of a "community?" I guess you haven't been back to Silver Spring in the last 25 years.

Yes, Sherwood opted out of a consortium, as did BCC. You can try to justify the reasons as anything other than race, but you'll lose. I have nothing against the greater Olney area, and Sherwood is a fine school, but when you need to attack something else to pull yourself up, you've already lost the argument. And don't kid yourself, Blair and Einstein are every bit as well regarded as Sherwood academically.[/quote]

Blair has the magnets.  Schools w/in a school - I know firsthand how that worked.  There was NO integration.

Einstein?  Compare its test scores to Sherwood's. There is no comparison academically.

I grew up in SS.  My mother lives in SS.  Two good friends live in SS.  I know the area, honey bun.  Community and school choice do not go hand in hand.  Neighborhoods should be able to support their cluster - their elementary schools, their middle schools and their high school.

You do realize where these "choices" are, right?  in the low SES areas

Do you see school choice with Whitman and Churchill?  lol!  no . . .

The county hopes that by allowing choice, it will create competition among the schools in an effort to beef up rigor.  So you have lots of academies and magnets.  lots of bells and whistles

nice, right?  "I hope MY school beats out YOUR school b/c YOUR school sucks!"  That's the game.  And in a competition, someone's ALWAYS a loser!  Who gets third choice in the NEC? I know that answer.  And guess what? So do the parents and kids connected to that high school.  not a good feeling, right?

all in the name of equity?

So before you slam me, do your homework.  UNDERSTAND WHY the system created choice and how it has destroyed the reputations of schools.

I'm eager to read your response.  I'll be waiting.[/quote]

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