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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the DCC schools have strengths and weaknesses. But realistically, MCPS is doing a program analysis and I wouldn't  be surprised if the choice consortia are on the chopping block after it as [b]they haven't really achieved what they were designed to,[/b] and they are an expense (all the additional bus routes). I also suspect we will begin to see a decrease in the number of academy programs.

So it's pretty much impossible to try to figure out the best fit.

If the DCC choice stays, you may also be surprised by what your child decides to prioritize. After open houses and presentations, my child applied to a couple of programs I had no idea they'd be interested in. [/quote]
They have achieved what they were designed for.[/quote]

Not really. If you look at the history of various integration programs, it is clear that the consortia were considered to be a tool for that and the DCC schools are not any more integrated than they were in the 1990s and outcomes haven't improved with the "smaller learning communities", which is the Clinton-era Department of Education program it was initially funded by.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/info/choice/updatedhistory-context.pdf[/quote]
[quote]In the 2004–05 school year, the Downcounty Consortium (DCC) opened. The SLC grant outlined the following goals for the DCC: 1) provide students with the opportunity to choose an academic or career program that is based on their identified post-secondary aptitudes and interests by creating a system of themed academics within the high schools of this region; 2) address the unique needs of entering freshmen, cause them to persist in their studies, and improve their post-secondary attainment levels by creating a system of programs, supports, and pathways within the freshman programs in each of these high schools; and 3) support increased levels of student performance by creating and sustaining professional learning communities within and across the faculties of DCC high schools.[/quote]
Seems that they have achieved their goals. 
DP[/quote]

Their real goal was to load balance the rapidly slipping economic demographics and prevent areas of the county from being no-man’s land real estate wise. If mom thinks they can opt out of the local high school but is happy with the elementary, vastly larger sections of the county’s real estate maintains it liquidity. The said programs are introduced and metered to engineer the flow of kids to where the central office feels they are needed. It’s an opt-in bussing program. That’s why the consortiums are all in bottom 2/3rds of ranked schools without one exception.  People who think BCC will be added to the DCC are not thinking logically. [/quote]

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