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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spanish immersion is one idea and a good one. I just don’t think expanding buildings and revisiting boundaries is enough. MCPS needs to be innovative here to compete with the private schools. They are losing - at least in the DCC.

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Do you have any proof of that? My kids are at DCC schools and I can count on one hand the number of kids in the whole neighborhood who are in private schools. Of those who are, two have parents who work at that school, and one has special needs that MCPS couldn't accommodate. I guess there's one other family that homeschools, but I get the impression they would homeschool no matter where they live, as it is a pretty integral part of their self-conception.

I mean, genuinely, what gives you the impression that families in DCC neighborhoods are, en masse, using private schools? [/quote]

I think the consultant should look at that. It’s relevant. And I personally know a lot of families in the Catholic schools from Silver Spring.[/quote]

As a geographic area, Silver Spring is huge. So it would make perfect sense that some parts of Silver Spring, namely those parts that are heavily Catholic, would be full of families using parish schools. It also makes sense that other parts would not, and that most of the kids would be in their local public schools.

However, the same can be said of any other part of the county or region. There are parts of Bethesda where people moved so they could be close to a specific parochial school. That doesn't mean the Bethesda schools are bad - it means people are choosing to live near specific schools because they are committed to a specific educational model. [/quote]

Well, it’s relevant data for the consultant to consider in the boundary survey. Silver Spring is wonderfully diverse and mostly middle class. That could/should be better reflected in the public schools. It’s a cycle - people think the schools are bad, so they send them to private/Catholic, then at some point, you lose that middle class base that makes for a strong public school. [/quote]

Well this is your chance to provide input on the scope of the consultants work, right? For as many times as you’ve brought it up on this thread I sure hope you bring it up at an actual meeting.[/quote]

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