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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses?  Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?[/quote]

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.[/quote]

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools.  The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?[/quote]

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.[/quote]

That’s about overall numbers not about demand for advanced coursework. The whole purpose of the DCC was so that kids interested in a thing could go to a different school.  Ergo it seems, based on the statements here, that the critical mass of students needed to support a class is lotterying to a different school.

Whatever draw Einstein had in the DcC did not appear to be the offering of advanced class work.[/quote]

The DCC academies weren't focused on advanced class work, they were focused on themed elective tracks.[/quote]

Understood.  Do other schools in the DCC offer the advanced coursework that Einstein lacks?  Would a student interested in that advanced coursework lottery into the other school?[/quote]

Yes, Blair and Wheaton would be the STEM-oriented schools which Einstein students might try to lottery into. But there are only a limited number of spots.[/quote]

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