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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The humanities program should be at Northwood but right now Northwood does not seem to be coming together to advocate for its future interests because the community is currently fragmented/dislocated/in exile at Woodward. Or because Northwood families are currently focused on trying to save SSIMS, which is in the same cluster. Does Northwood have an MCCPTA rep? It is also a shame that Northwood and Einstein have been put in an competition for the performing arts. Meanwhile the school that is already the best high school in the county gets the new criteria based humanities program. [/quote]

Between the fact that Northwood boundaries are set to change significantly, that 11th and 12th graders will have graduated already, and that at least some fraction of current Northwood families are not within Northwood base area thanks to the DCC choice process (albeit probably less than usual due to he holding school), there's a fair number of Northwood families who will not be affected by this. (Plus I think you're right that they're distracted by SSIMS and holding school issues and the like.)

But you are right that the humanities program should absolutely be moved from Whitman to Northwood-- I think that is objectively the right choice here.  And getting programs shouldn't be based on who's most effective at advocacy, for a multitude of reasons.  If MCPS can't make the right choice on this on their own, we should all be advocating for changes like that, whether or not we're from Northwood.[/quote]

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