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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it so difficult to learn all this background. DCPS should not make it so hard for parents to learn information.
I’m concerned that only students in the IT academy will be allowed to sign up for the AP CS courses. [/quote]

Why not just sign up for the IT academy? You apparently want your kid to take the course, and joining the academy apparently means more money for JR. Win/win. What am I missing?[/quote]

I’m not sure it is a win/win because the funding is more complex than you are assuming.
It is not necessarily extra money for JR. The school gets a set budget and DCPS Central forces the school to allocate the funding into different buckets.
One of the buckets is funding of the academies including academy director positions. 
Presumably if all that money was not going towards the academies, it could be used for something else. 
So if you value the academies, maybe this is a win-win, but if your kid is not part of either the Hospitality, Biomed, IT or Engineering academies, you might be frustrated by all the resources being poured into these specific academies [/quote]

Ok, but the hypothetical kid we’re talking about is already in one academy and wants to join a second. Clearly they do value the academies and are happy to see the money being poured into their kid’s areas of interest. [/quote]

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