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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also there is no reason why you can't move to the regional model and still keep consortia.  The new regions could be structured as consortia too.  The last time the transportation budget for the consortia was estimated it was quite small, just a tiny drop in the bucket of MCPS's total budget, and the added cost would be even less now since they'll already be paying to run buses all across each region for the regional programs anyway.[/quote]

In no way do I want to live in a consortium. I like the way they are doing it -- people go to their home school unless they want a speciality program. I want to know that my neighbors who choose public will be at our school--and that they kids we went to middle school will be, too--unless they make the choice to apply and then get into a magnet. [/quote]

In a consortium you can still be guaranteed your home school.  So are you saying you don't want.a consortium because you want to force your neighbors' kids into the same school your kids are going to, whether they want to or not? Lovely of you   (And still doesn't even work because all your kid's middle school friends could still choose to go to a regional program at a different school anyway.  So it has all the downsides of a consortia model without the benefits.)[/quote]

Correct. I want my kids to go to a neighborhood school. [/quote]

I feel the same way, and I'm a parent of a child who goes to a middle school magnet nad whose home school is Paint Branch. The commute is unbearable and is affecting my child's social life/activities/etc, in a negative way (though she loves going to the magnet). Make the neighborhood schools better and stop the brain-drain. [/quote]

This. I wish they would do something about middle and elementary. It’s like MCPS only listens to the people who have a positive experience with the magnets, and they ignore all the negative impacts on the local schools from taking kids out of those schools. Why should my kid lose a robust peer cohort at the local school because other kids won a lottery to get into a magnet and my equally qualified kid did not? Plus all the social impacts. Just offer the same classes at the neighborhood school! At all levels from elementary to high school! It's not that hard of a concept. [/quote]

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