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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The region proposal is concerning special programs. For ordinary classes, you stay at your home school.

Please look at the map (slide 20 from MCPS’s most recent Oct 16 BOE presentation). Damascus is as far away from Poolesville as is Magruder, Richard Montgomery, and BCC, yet Damascus lobbied hard to be in the same region as Poolesville.

So there are communities that, despite being far away, will use their influence to try to make sure they have access to the established and renowned programs at Poolesville. I do not see how MCPS can justify the huge disparity in FARMS and URM between regions 5 and 6, if the school district is for equity and access.[/quote]
Really I think this region proposal is hot a mess and, given the new information about the declining enrollment, the proposal should be paused for a few years, just like Crown HS. There is no sense squabbling about these school assignments some rando administrator dreamed up alongside their special interest groups.[/quote]
I agree. School and program assignments within the proposed regions is not transparent and will increase inequity as students lose access to established programs.

Losing 2600 MCPS students last year and another projected 6000 in the next 6 years means a big budget loss and changing demographic, which means different student needs.

It doesn’t make sense to approve a poorly thought-out plan that will cost taxpayers many additional millions in a weak economy for a decreasing URM population, which is one of the target groups the region proposal is supposed to help.[/quote]

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