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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m always curious how folks believe we can expand access without creating new programs and populating them elsewhere. Blair already has over 3K students. It’s not like we can just add more magnet seats there.   And once we create a similar program elsewhere what is the purpose keeping them countywide?[/quote]

If only it was that simple. Once the Taylor regional system is implemented, Wooten will become the new magnet program. Who knows what Blair educators will follow them there. We don't have that many highly specialized teachers - even Taylor admitted he doesn't know how many teachers want to highly specialize in magnet programming. And what, we are going to turn this on a dime, beginning in 2027? In a school district that is our size?

Wooten Cluster currently provides ~30% of Blair's SCSM magnet student cohort. They will be gone. Blair's Communications Arts Program will be downgraded from a criteria-based program to an interest-based program.

What does all this do to Blair? We likely will be moving Blair back towards the 1980s, when it was the most troubled high school in the county, with the lowest outcomes. And it will remain the largest high school in the system. [/quote]

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