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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should leave the DCC and NEC alone and make consortia in the rest of the county.[/quote]

we all get that school choice = self-segregation, right?[/quote]

You also get that the regional program perpetuates that self-segregation, right? Who do you think are the families that are going to sign up and be capable of supporting their kids going to a school other than their home school? Primarily white and Asian families, and to the extent that minority students are in these programs, they will be most likely upper middle-class Black and Hispanic families who can shuttle their kids to and from those schools.[/quote]

Yes, exactly!  I don’t support either the regional model or the consortia.[/quote]

I think we should work hard at having all strong high schools with no school choice, but with that is also an end to the middle school consortium and DCC. [b]I think my frustration over reading some of these entries is that it comes across that people want every school to be identical[/b], which is impossible. Schools cannot run a class for 5 kids! So MCPS is doing the next best thing- making sure that every high school has a core set of advanced courses. What schools choose to do after that is that school's decision and should be based on the interests of the students they are serving and the skills of the teachers. Comparison is the thief of joy. Every school can bring something different to the table, which is a good thing. And every student has access to dual enrollment if they are ready for the most advanced classes. [/quote]

Actually, MCPS is the one that wants every school to be identical. They're the ones who are flattening and dismantling unique programs and making swaps from programs that have thrived in one school to instead be housed in another that has no track record of program success in that area in the name of equity.

MCPS has started saying they want to have strong localized programming at every high school in the latest talking points of this regional program expansion, but they have not articulated in any way what that means and how they would enforce that.[/quote]

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