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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, starting in Fall '27, students from only 5 schools will be eligible for the Blair SMCS program: Blair, Northwood, Einstein, BCC, and Whitman.

I don't think that will "destroy" it as some claim, but it will undoubtedly dilute it do the reduced cohort and probably loss of teachers and electives to staff and build the 4 new programs.

I would have been in favor of changes/expansion to the different magnet programs, but building out as many new programs all at once the way they're doing it is reckless, IMO. But they're going full-steam ahead despite lots of voices warning them.[/quote]

Putting it a different way the vast majority of the Magnet kids come from Bethesda, Potomac and Rockville as designed and from mostly just a couple schools.  None of those schools will be aligned with Blair in the new clusters and the two decent schools it is clustered with, one historically does not travel away to outside programs due to the strength of its local offerings and peer group. Coupled to the PP point that the new cluster programs will have to raid the staffing as well to set up, what do people expect to be left at Blair? [/quote]

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