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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how MCPS staff have responded to their anti racist training by deciding being anti racist means being able to dismiss community input on the basis of a person's whitness, continue to avoid genuine outreach and engagement BIPOC communities (like when they announced the regional model is equitable because the two guys that get MCPS funding and run the Black and Brown Coalition were convinced to support it... I wonder how ..), and quietly rig a boundary process to ingrain racial segregation even further.[/quote]

I agree. On the upcounty side they quietly created a Region 5 magnet with 3 High FARMS schools in it. Crown was earlier supposed to be a part of Region 5. Now that Wootton moved there, it goes to Region 4 (unless they change that) and they took away new labs and a new school from the poor side of Gaithersburg. Unfortunately majority of the parents in these schools try to stay under the radar due to immigration policies and they are not speaking up.

And Damascus which should have been in Region 5, and has a largely low FARMS population, even if they are so far away, are zoned to Region 6 with access to the Poolesville program, the NorthWest Ulysses program, Clarksburg P-Tech program, while QO which is closest to Poolesville is zoned to Region 5.

Money talks.

If MCPS was being fair, they would make sure Wootton is in Region 5, move Damascus to Region 5, move QO to Region 6 and Magruder to Region 4 to balance it out.[/quote]
+1 before modified H, FARMS rate in region 5 (where QO is) was over 10 points higher than 4 and 6. Reducing QO’s FARMS rate so region 5’s FARMS rate is more equitable with its neighboring regions was the least they could do.[/quote]

Now they conveniently get to say Region 5 is still good the way it is because QO has less FARMS. But all the other 3 schools are High FARMS - never mind they took away Crown from Gaithersburg families and put Wootton there.

They really need to do something about Region 5. I don't see any strong cohorts for that region.

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Then they need to entirely rework regions 4 5 and 6 so every HS has an equal distribution of FARMS.[/quote]

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