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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are individual students and parents who feel that being in a consortia has worked out well for them. They got to pick their school and might get a few electives offered at that school that are not offered at the other schools.

But most do not have a comparison point for how being in a consortia school limits community involvement and challenges the school.

After school activities are significantly more challenging when the students live in a more spread out geographic area and do not grow up with the other families. In a community school, it's easier to get home after practice or rehearsal or to rely on carpools with families who have known each other since elementary school. The DCC does at least have better public transportation readily available than the NEC, but still - relying on metro buses to take your student home late at night or in rush hour isn't ideal when compared to a community school's daily routine.

Raising funds for your school is much more difficult in a consortia school. Neighbors and friends are much less likely to donate or participate in a fundraiser when the neighborhood has to support three (NEC) or five (DCC) public schools.

Getting community involvement from local businesses is significantly harder when each business has three or five public high schools to support.

Vertical articulation - working with the feeder middle schools to ensure smooth transitions for individual students (or all students) is harder when the high school A) doesn't know who is coming to the school until February of their 8th grade year and B) has five (NEC) or 11 (DCC) middle schools they pull from.

[b]Anyone who has worked in a consortia school knows how challenging it can be. Anyone who has volunteered in the PTSA or Booster Club knows the challenges consortia present.[/b][/quote]

Correct. Which is why it's maddening to have morons on this forum telling those of us who have volunteered in DCC PTSAs/Booster Clubs are lying and that our lived experiences are false or inaccurate.[/quote]

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