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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need a program if only to say that they aren’t excluding kids from other schools.  If they don’t have one it looks exclusionary.[/quote]

This statement implies an equality mindset, not an equity mindset. If they were taking an equity approach, their goal would not be to create a system that looks uniform, because they would be acknowledging that different school communities need different things. Having low income kids travel the Bethesda for criteria based programs is not equity, it's inequity.[/quote]

Well I for one am sick of equity mindset because it means different things to different people and it’s weaponized to pit kids against each other and manipulate decisions. I’m cool with the “give kids what they each need” definition. I’m really not cool with the constant redistribution of opportunities ignoring the needs of actual kids in favor of optics and quotas and treating seeing kids only as members of racial or socioeconomic monoliths. [/quote]

In terms of academic opportunities, which ones do wealthy schools not have that they need? For example Whitman and BCC send very very few kids to Blair or RMIB. Is it because these commutes are so bad or is it because both of these schools have a wealth of advanced math and science classes?[/quote]

It’s both. The commutes are legitimately bad and the magnet bus coverage from those clusters is not super convenient. And if your home school is great and offers enough of what you need, it can be harder to justify making the transportation sacrifice. It’s also a bit of a vibe thing. Many BCC families aren’t science Olympiad types. [/quote]

What's so terrible about those commutes? They go against traffic for both schools. As far as long commutes to magnet programs go these are really not bad[/quote]
Commutes under the proposed model are about the same commute time as the current model. Commute is not a selling point for the proposed regions model.[/quote]

This is objectively false and is a weird thing to be so wrong about.  Also, there are no commute times yet for many of the school to school commutes since many schools don’t have magnets and aren’t in the NEC or DCC.

The person upthread who said this discussion is myopic was right.[/quote]

From Northwood or Einstein to Whitman is not a reasonable commute.[/quote]

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