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[quote=Anonymous]Believe it or not, the consortium model is not universally beloved by all families in the DCC.

Especially since the DCC is MUCH larger than the NEC.

What students gain in "choice," actually contributes to a Hunger Games-style process where the most popular schools (Blair, Wheaton, Einstein) get filled up quickly while the less popular and less resourced schools (Northwood, Kennedy) end up at the bottom of the barrel. Kids feel rejected and dejected when they don't get accepted into one of the top three and end up at one of the bottom two.

Furthermore, with the consortium model, you lose any sense of a "neighborhood" school feeling, since kids trek to the school from all over Silver Spring. This weakens the community-school bonds as well.

Chalk this up to another one of those things MCPS does that SOUNDS good in theory, but has serious negative tradeoffs in practice.

While Sherwood parents were partially rooted in racism by not wanting to join the NEC, they weren't wrong that adopting the NEC model would have fundamentally changed the character of their neighborhood school in ways that might not be desirable.[/quote]

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