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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why doesn’t MCPS make a Western Consortium of BCC, Whitman, Woodward and WJ?  Some DCC students could be moved to the Western Consortium. [/quote]

Wasn't B-CC originally part of the DCC until parents complained? It is somewhat ironic that geographically B-CC is the most down county high-school in MCPS.[/quote]
I’ve seen that rumor here, and it’s repeated in the following link, with a link to a Post article that in no way supports that claim. I’ve lived in the B-CC cluster forever and really think I would have heard about this when it supposedly happened, since that was the year after we bought our house and when we started having kids. I’m starting to think it’s an urban legend like “the residents of Georgetown kept out Metro.” [/quote]
Whoops, link here: http://www.justupthepike.com/2013/06/northeast-consortium-example-of-school.html?m=1[/quote]

The Metis report refers to the reason as "community advocacy":

From the outset, the consortium included Montgomery Blair, John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein,
and the re-opened Northwood HS. The Board considered adding a fifth school in the
consortium. At first, Bethesda-Chevy Chase (B-CC) HS was proposed, but in the end the Board
decided to include Wheaton HS in response to community advocacy. In contrast to Wheaton
HS, which had similar student demographics to other DCC schools, B-CC HS would have
provided better opportunities for achieving greater diversity across the consortium because it
had a student population with higher proportions of White and higher income students.[/quote]

So the board caved to parental pressure?[/quote]

But from what I've read on this thread the school board operates in a hermetically sealed vacuum and is unconcerned with politics, is utterly unswayed by outside political pressure and makes decisions that are 100 percent based on what is the right decision for the county's overall student body? 
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