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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What specific boundary changes do you think will help?[/quote]

Take a school like Kennedy which is low performing but high poverty. The school is next to a solidly middle class neighborhood ranging off Randolph Rd toward White Oak. But kids from that neighborhood rarely go to Kennedy. I'd take it out of the DCC so that area kids can't escape to Northwood or Blair. [/quote]

This is the problem with adding more schools to the consortia.  It just gives more options for families to escape poor performing schools instead of working to improve them. [/quote]

[b]What makes the schools poor performing?  The schools or the kids going to them?  If you swapped the kids going to Whitman w/ those going to Wheaton suddenly Wheaton would be the "good" school.  Spreading out the high performing kids will make the schools look more similar on paper but I doubt it will change the performance of many of the kids.[/[/b]quote]

I would agree with this - I went to one of the DCC schools mentioned here that families "choose to leave for other options" and we had a very big mix of students.  There was a nice core of us who went on to be very successful after HS - but there were plenty of kids I'd guess that were just being moved through the system....  We may have averaged up the scores a bit - but it wasn't helping those kids at all.

I do think it's too bad that now even that core of very good students would need/want to completely leave for a different option, however.[/quote]

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