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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"They should cluster schools longitudinally. Would Potomac be inline with Wheaton or Glenmont "

ha! that'll be the day! Pigs would fly sooner than Potomac would permit that. :)

Agree with an earlier PP that the way to "save" the schools in the DCCC is to focus on reattracting and reassuring the middle class parents - of whatever race of course - about how their kids will do. The Blair magnet is so successful because it does just that - creates an environment where they can thrive and in turn captures those kids into the student body where they must interact with others in extracurriculars or specials classes presumably and their parents become part of the PTA. I live in a part of SS with a school that's roughly 2/3 FARM but there are MANY middle class homes around - they must either be sprinkled into other school clusters or else mostly using private or getting county waivers (a few of those in my neighborhood alone) though. If they were at our school instead it would help all the kids there. I say that as someone happy with the school so far but that realizes that more kids from middle class homes would be helpful too.[/quote]

I feel for families in silver spring schools with high farms. Silver spring clustering seems to want to group kids in schools by ses. Other silver spring schools are going from strength to strength.
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This is absolutely true at the ES level - grouped by SES with certain schools carrying the burden of low performing students at a higher rate.  [/quote]

Families at these school are having to pay through their noses for private schools or stressed out about immersion or magnet[/quote]

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