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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They highlight Kennedy. The demographics skew low-income minorities—including newly arrived Latino young men who come to the US without parents to live/work. Plus a high number of black young men who simply don’t want to be in school. That school is surrounded by apartments and other rentals.

Mcps policy should not be driven by anomalies.

Rice used to talk about creating more non-traditional school programs for blue collar trades, etc. Try that.

Plus, the county has poured millions into gang prevention, etc. [/quote]

Kennedy has among the highest chronic absenteeism but other MCPS high schools have notably higher than pre-pandemic chronic absenteeism rates too. So no, this is not some anomaly. It is a systemwide issue, with Kennedy just being the most extreme end of that issue.

Just to compare within the DCC:

Wheaton: 30%
Northwood: 39%
Blair: 34%
Einstein: 30%

And for other high FARMS schools, Kennedy is on par:

Watkins Mill: 48%
Gaithersburg High: 43%[/quote]

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