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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted above that we are currently Blair but could be rezoned to Northwood (option B or F), which is on the face of it not ideal.

I don’t have a problem with arts but putting the humanities magnet at Northwood would make it a considerably more attractive possibility for my family.[/quote]

With ~2000 students and ~40% FARMS, Northwood has potential to be comparable to Blair in terms of a high-achieving cohort and course offerings... unless tons of kids choose to leave for different schools.[/quote]

Agree.  What’s the rationale for giving humanities to Whitman?
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Because Whitman already has tons of niche classes like AP Art History and sociology and less common languages, and MCPS is trying to do this without allocating or re-allocating any resources.[/quote]

They are somehow trying to combine both cheaping out on this regional program approach and overspending on it, and ending up with the worst of both.

And I wish their noses would start growing like Pinocchio's every time they say this is about "equity" yet move ahead with a plan designed to pull high-achieving and disproportionately higher-income families out of schools like Einstein and Northwood and send them to schools like Whitman if they want the kinds of classes that Whitman has, leaving the remaining kids at those schools worse off, because they can't be bothered to strengthen those schools by hiring one or two new teachers. [/quote]

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