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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not true that Blair will reflect the neighborhood. We live in a neighborhood that can WALK to Blair. It’s our closest high school. Yet none of the boundary studies assigned us to Blair - instead we literally pass Blair on the way to Northwood. It’s madness. [/quote]

I am so tired of geographically-challenged families in the Blair walk zone complaining about how them not being a sign of MCPS incompetence.  Look at a map sometime, guys.  There are huge numbers of students inside the Beltway whose closest school is Blair.  There's also a lot of DCC schools near each other in a relatively small area.  There is no way that everyone who could walk to Blair is going to get assigned to Blair-- some will and some won't.   You can be disappointed that you're not in the group that is, but don't act like they're missing some easy solution that assigns all y'all to Blair-- it doesn't exist.

MCPS does a lot of things that are actually wrong-- but when folks on here blame them for everything under the sun, it actually makes it easier for them to conclude that their critics are uninformed and that they're right to just dismiss criticism.  Save your criticism for the many, many things they actually do screw up.[/quote]

..like setting up strawman options for an inside-the-beltway, east county HS, where none remained but population density and overall insufficiency were highest, such that they were bound to be rejected in favor of the new Woodward so that, instead of shifting populations east [gasps, clutches pearls], the hoi polloi of WJ demographics could be removed to a very close but conveniently separate school, where [i]they[/i], then, could argue against the possibility of a westward population shift from the DCC, with a predictable level of continuing neglect put forth as options, such as dissolution of the consortium and suggesting unfunded buildout of shell space in a neighboring building to allow for continued Wheaton overcrowding, all while refusing academic relief that would keep students from continuing in a scarcity model by ensuring that the same set of non-magnet, high-level classes available at, say, Whitman or Churchill, is made available across the system while resources to address differential EML need are distributed proportionately enough to ensure not only a reasonable possibility of academic uptake for those populations, no matter the relative prevalence, but also a similar academic experience for the non-EML populations across schools?[/quote]

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