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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if they could pair two regions together for certain programs where it would make more sense to have 3 programs countywide than 6?   How well would that work with this set of regions, or would you need to change the regions to make that work?  Which regions would you pair together?  5&6 is already pretty close to the existing sending schools for upcounty programs, right? [/quote]

What about 1 with 2, 3 with 4, 5 with 6?  Could do three high-level SMCS magnets-- keep Poolesville (for 5 & 6) and Blair (for 1 & 2) and then add one new one for the schools in regions 3 & 4.  [/quote]

That actually doesn't look too bad.  So it's kind of divided by lower county, with Whitman being kind of the outlier but not too different from how Poolesville is usually on the outer edge, miiddle county and upper county.

Even if they keep the current proposed six regions, I think they can mix up regions five and six a little bit to balance it out.  The large part of Crown basically used to go to Quince Orchard.  And Quince Orchard is often grouped with Northwest.  So they'd probably be able to swap some schools between the two regions and still make them contiguous areas with no islands.

But it still goes back to I don't think these groupings will really matter.  Where unless they put some really outstanding programs in a school, I don't really see many students leaving their home school for that program.  For example is Argyle the middle school in Silver Spring with a magnet program?  I remember several families looking into it and visiting it during it's open house.  But decided it wasn't worth going to over their home school.  Then the number of students that do choose to go to another school for a special program, won't really make that much of a change in anything at the school.  Like maybe one or two classrooms of students in a high school?[/quote]

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