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[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]

While I agree with you, you absolutely know that would be a complaint leveled against MCPS if they didn’t put a program at all schools.[/quote]

It is incorrect and offensive to imply that Whitman would not have any programs given the wealth of coursework they office, including a local engineering program and many more AP courses than most other schools.

Why is that potential complaint being considered more important than the complaint about the inequity of forcing low income students to travel to access programs that rich students have access to at their home schools?[/quote]

Let me try again, since my point is apparently being lost:  if whitman did not have a program that enabled students at other schools in the region to go to Whitman, there would be a complaint that Whitman is being exclusionary (bc it is a rich white school that doesn’t want unwashed outsiders, or something).  So MCPS needs to avoid that likely complaint and put something there.  I agree that they could put an unwanted, underdeveloped program there such that no one would ACTUALLY go there (and the academic program could go to a higher-FARMS school).

It’s just optics.[/quote]

Whitman already has a countywide program (LASJ) that they will keep except  will become regional. They already have lots of language classes that kids who desperately want uncommon languages can go there to take  and it can be called the languages program.  Why should they need anything else?[/quote]

+1 can someone tell me which genius at CO thinks it looks BETTER for them to put an academic magnet program in the wealthiest MCPS school? It is disgraceful.[/quote]

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