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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a dog in this fight because my kids are already for high school. But we are zoned for Einstein kids and both of my kids are taking advantage of programs at different DCC schools. I definitely would want to stay in the DCC and would be super upset if my kid was, say, 10, and I had to worry that he couldn't go to, say, the Wheaton STEM programs. [/quote]

I am right there with you. These conversations are dominated by pearl clutchers from the Ws, but, there is very little discussion of what DCC people want. All the DCC people I know are happy in the DCC and like the different options we have for high school programs. I think there will be a significant number of people upset at the prospect of being pulled out of the DCC only to be put in a smaller cluster with few options for special programs.

I think it makes the most sense to add Woodward to the DCC, with some sort of special program or academy. MOST of the Woodward students will come from the area surrounding Woodward, and then they can fill extra space with kids applying to the special program as well as the DCC lottery. It gives MCPS a lot more flexibility in meeting demographic goals for Woodward individually as well as the DCC. [/quote]

So let's say that they adjust a few DCC neighborhoods to Woodward.  Maybe 100 kids?  Maybe 200, max?  And add a magnet program, maybe drawing another 100?  Even 300 shifted from DCC and the extra capacity of Northwood coming online doesn't come close to addressing the relative overcrowding.

Hoping I'm wrong, and that redrawing more lines will happe -- it's not like there is anything else that's going to be available in the next 5+ years.[/quote]
Given that Einstein is projected to be 500 over capacity by then and Wheaton 400 over, they are going to have to send more than 100-200 DCC students to Woodward. Just adding WJ’s 800 over capacity to Wheaton and Einstein’s numbers puts Woodward already close to its capacity. They allowed these schools to get so overcrowded that minor boundary shifts aren’t enough to fix the problem. [/quote]

Send WJ kids to Wheaton?! Oh hell no.

You can't pull kids from a good school and send them to a struggling school. They need to invest resources into the struggling schools (better admin, more security, better teachers, smaller class sizes, more advanced and AP courses, more support services like tutoring and Saturday school and so on) and bring them up to par vs. moving kids around and bussing them far from home. [/quote]

You misread the PP. They were talking about sending WJ, Wheaton, and Einstein kids to Woodward (which is what most people expect to happen).[/quote]

Thank you. I did misread it. I took it to mean more kids would be sent to overcrowded Wheaton which wouldn't solve anything. [/quote]

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