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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Actually you could do some massive shuffling that would not create bus routes that are too crazy.

1. Shift a bunch of Whitman kids out of Whitman into the next closest school which is BCC. 
2. Shift the FARMS kids at BCC into Whitman. Shift a bunch of white BCC kids into Blair. 
3. Shift a bunch of FARMS kids at Blair into BCC. Move the SMAC and CAPS program up to Kennedy.

Outcome - Kennedy gets an additional 20% white/asian high performers. Whitman gets 20% FARMS, BCC gets another 5-10% FARMS and Blair stays about the same in terms of FARMS but you reduce some of the overcrowding at Blair. No one is on a crazy bus ride past multiple schools.

So children are moved around based on their race and income level? I am so glad we are nearly done with MCPS. W parent with a Blair smac kid. I wouldn’t have considered sending him to Kennedy. The reason we like Blair is because the school as a whole is wonderful. Lots of smart kids outside the Magnet and CAP programs. Kids are expected to excel in the classroom and in their extracurricular activities. I hear good things about Wheaton and Einstein and Northwood but I have not heard much about Kennedy and their SAT scores are concerning[/quote]

You should look at the numbers and the MCPS planning documents. Blair is over by 200 now and projected to be over by 700-800 in a few years. In the past several years, the hispanic population (which is predominantly low income) has grown by 30% and this growth was under projected by MCPS years ago. Right now, 20% of Blair's population is in SMAC or CAP and these are predominately white and asian kids from other areas in the DCC and county not Blair.

Northwood and Einstein have similar population problems and Woodward will not be even close to enough to handle their overflow with how WJ is even more over populated. There is an expansion at Northwood but that is also years off and will not be enough. Blair can not get any bigger. There simply are no under enrolled schools in the eastern areas and Kennedy is the closest in being able to absorb more students with an expansion.

My guess is that SMAC and CAP will get phased out or put in hiatus due to over crowding while the staff are transferred to new programs up at Kennedy.

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