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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TL;DR - current 7th graders are not affected for MS. They are affected for HS.

[b]Current DCC 7th graders will not go through the DCC choice process in fall of 8th grade but will go through whatever process is set up for the new regional choice programs. 
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If you are currently at Eastern/Takoma or MSMC and your home address is in a different program Region than the current MS, I would expect your child will have to apply to programs in their home region but I have not heard that exact scenario addressed by MCPS yet[/quote]

The bolded is why all current 7th graders and beyond are f*cked[/quote]

I have a current 7th grader and I think this is hyperbole. Yes, next year will likely be a little chaotic, but there are plenty of excellent high schools in MCPS.

The folks I've seen most up in arms about this are (white) folks who bought a house in a school zone with the explicit plan of trying to lottery out. Yes, if your entire plan for HS was predicated on not sending your child to school with their neighbors, you might feel f*cked, but that's a feeling not reality. Your neighbors are fine, and their children are fine, and it will be fine. [/quote]

You probably also think it’s fine that not all high schools in MCPS offer the same classes, extracurriculars, and opportunities. I’d genuinely be happy to send my math-loving kid to our neighborhood school if it had the same higher-level math options as the one five miles away.
That’s what makes this argument so frustrating. It keeps getting framed like we don’t want our kids going to school with their neighbors (with that not-so-subtle implication), when really we’re just trying to make the best decision for our kid based on what’s actually offered.

If every high school truly had comparable academic opportunities, this wouldn’t even be a conversation.[/quote]

+1 the value of the DCC is the choice. DCC schools need that because they don't offer the variety of courses that schools like Whitman and DCC do. [b]This happens because DCC schools serve a population that has much, much higher needs (EML and FARMS) but receives no significant funding to address the educational needs associated with poverty.[/b]

Taylor and the BOE are weaponizing equity and anti-racism discourse while at the same time creating two new highly segregated rich schools (WJ and QO). It's pretty disgusting. No wonder the only families that want to engage with MCPS on these issues are wacky. Who else would want to argue with people in power that pull this BS.[/quote]

This...

...and the rest, unless there is a reveal yet to come that both would provide for that differential funding to address need associated with poverty/language limitation [i]and[/i] would ensure that non-magnet courses offered at [i]any[/i] MCPS school are equivalently offered at [i]all[/i] MCPS schools.[/quote]

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