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[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 think if you dig a little deeper, you'll see that MCPS has abandoned any effort to re-attract and reassure middle class parents in the red zone.  They see the red zone as a lost cause when it comes to making the schools more attractive for middle class families.  From what I've been told, there's a "you knew this about your area when you moved here" attitude in response to red zone parents who think MCPS ought to at least pretend to give a crap about whether any of the middle class families will take a chance on their local schools.  It's really too bad.  I think they feel overwhelmed by the budget and overcrowding and really just pray to scrape by at this point.  Caring what parents think about their assigned schools in the red zone has been bumped to the bottom of the list at this point.  Those parents just get into specialty programs elsewhere in the county or go private.  The problem solves itself, right?[/quote]

I agree, and it's not just in the red zone. In fact, read the County report - it is challenging the schools to make things less segregated, better for the disadvantaged, not better for the middle class. Call your council member.[/quote]

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