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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right now the vast majority of kids at Blair SMCS come from schools not in the proposed Region 1 so presumably Einstein kids will have a better shot at that program[/quote]

But the problem is that the programs MCPS has assigned to Einstein will not draw students to replace those leaving for other programs.

Kids might have a better chance of getting into Blair but who the hell will come to the design and education magnets at Einstein? Nearly every school in the county has digital art and design classes. Most schools have education programs. Who would get on a bus for classes they can take at home?

Yes, other schools are getting the same design and education magnets as Einstein, but that will simply be additive for those schools. They’ll have a magnet they never had before, and if it doesn’t take off, eh. No harm done.

At Einstein, they are effectively REMOVING magnet-style enrollment in the performing arts academy and replacing it with shitty magnets instead.

Under the DCC system, about 150 kids per year come to Einstein from other schools, many for the performing arts, plus 30 or so kids for the VAC.

In the new system, Einstein will have about 90 magnet seats per year, and no guarantee that anyone will want to fill them.

The school loses kids in the boundary study, loses more kids than it gains in the program study, so it will loses teachers and classes as well.

This proposal sucks for Einstein. Maybe it doesn’t suck for your school and that’s great, but don’t pretend it’s good for every school. [/quote]
Um my family is zoned for Einstein.

My understand is that the school is over capacity and the entire point of the boundary study is to relieve schools like Einstein. So I'm struggling to understand what the problem is. Sounds like you don't like the population that might be zoned for Einstein and don't think we are good enough so you are desperate to bring in kids from other schools. What is so terrible about us?[/quote]

That would be fine if the effects of redistricting were comparable across schools. They are not. Einstein is seeing a much larger cut than other nearby schools.

The initial boundary proposals remove 400-600 kids from Einstein. They remove 200-400 kids apiece from Blair and Wheaton, which have similar crowding problems. Those schools would still be over-capacity under the current maps.

Adding magnet students at BCC will put that school over capacity. Whitman’s enrollment numbers will be largely unaffected.

As for not liking the people near Einstein, I live in the walkable zone for Einstein. I’ve been here for 15 years. I love the neighborhood. I love the school and its programs and I want future kids to have the a comparable experience to what my kid has had there.

The programming change means Einstein will not be able to support its strongest programs anymore, through no fault of its own and without buy-in from the community. It would be different there was an organic reduction in interest in VAPA or IB, and requests for an education program instead.

That’s not what’s happening. There will still be regional demand for VAPA and IB, but MCPS won’t let Einstein meet that demand the way it does in the DCC. Instead, MCPS is is redirecting students interested in those programs to other buildings.  Einstein gets a different menu of programs, that it will have to build from the ground up, but with reduced resources due to being a much smaller school. At the same time, legacy programs like VAPA and IB will be much weaker than they are now.

And again, none of this is being done at the behest of Einstein families or the DCC community. This is an MCPS initiative happening over the objections of local families. [/quote]

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