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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like option B. Balances everyone needs. Just go with that one. option B = option best.

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B and C are the wacky ones for us, but I get that this is super local.

We were untouched by the first boundary study.[/quote]

DCC family here.  C is best for us personally, B is worst, A and D are in the middle.  But I don't want us DCC families to get stuck fighting against each other on which one is worst for our particular neighborhood, while the richer schools just get almost everything they want. These options are rigged.[/quote]

They aready have everything.  Instead of funding the schools who have less to have more they are shuffling everyone.  [/quote]

Schools get the same funding per student except for title 1 schools who get more. [/quote]

Exactly and it should be based on need as the dcc schools have more kids struggling and the resources go to catch them up and help them and with one pot of money the principal’s have to make choices and the more academic kids lose out as the other kids have more needs to get them to graduate.  [/quote]

And yet even those extra resources don’t appear to be enough to move the needle on those kids who are struggling. [/quote]

The problem is by the time you do catch up in MS or HS, its too late.  They need to allocate far more resources in elementary schools to make sure every child who can be is on grade level.  Do real evaluations, remediate any disabilities or SN with supports, therapies and reading teachers, have a better curriculum, and bring back the free online tutoring.  By the time you get to high school, often its too late as these kids are struggling and have low self esteem and hate school.   [/quote]

Do you have any idea how expensive that is? There is neither the budget nor the political will do this. Sorry. And all of those “miracle” schools and programs like KIPP or in movies like “Waiting for Superman” are just cream skimming or culling through suspensions or sometimes outright kicking kids out to make the numbers look good. There are no easy fixes. And you’re right, those kids are cooked by that point. [/quote]

There are already so many more resources poured into farms schools.

You are completely diminishing inputs such as the education level of the mother. [/quote]

No, there aren’t.   The funding goes into resource classes and other things.  The smarter high performing kids equal to yours get very little.  [/quote]

Yeah. That isn’t good. Maybe we should give those higher performing kids options to attend better schools. You know like some of programs we already have. That certainly seems to be a better and more affordable option for MCPS than trying to make all the resource and curriculum options the same, especially if they’re going to be underutilized. [/quote]

That's what regional programs are doing.

Bussing 1/3rd of high school population outside of theirhome school is waste of money which is being done right now for DCC model. Just have stronger course at home school and for top 10% kids have regional programs. [/quote]

They’ve shared the math. It’s actually more expensive to run these regional programs compared to a consortium model.[/quote]

Question is degree of increase in cost which benefits entire county as oppossed to only DCC.[/quote]

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