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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like option B. It balances capacity issues (sorry DCC... WJ and Woodward need a buffer with the housing development concentrated in WJ and Woodward) and the split articulation issue (some care about this issue more than others).  Also, it tries to balance FARMS better than some others.

I'm submitting survey feedback in favor option B.

At least they improved it  from the prior rounds. [/quote]

How exactly does option B balance farms? [/quote]

It doesn't it's just the least bad on FARMS compared with the other 3 options so it gives White liberals in west county the warm fuzzies and eases their useless White guilt about hoarding public resources for themselves.[/quote]

Forget the farms issue and focus on strong course offerings at all schools. [/quote]

I literally just want them to utilize the space they spent hundreds of millions on and not leave it 25% empty while other buildings sit over crowded.[/quote]

Clearly that’s not the goal here.  And instead of spreading out kids who may need more,just give the schools more resources to support all kids.  [/quote]

You sound like a selfish pig who wants more space for your kids and less space for other kids. [/quote]

You sound like you are a nasty person.  No, I don’t care about space or farms, I care about access to courses.  You are a resource hoarder so keep it.  This entire plan hurts DCC schools and we may get less overcrowding but we lose resources, staff and classes.  Our kids are forced into MC or go without and it’s and issue when you cannot even get enough classes to graduate at your school.  [/quote]

How is any of that happen from the change in boundaries?  What new school with less offerings have you been rezoned to?[/quote]

The schools with less offerings are already like that.  If you reduce farms, you lose the extra funds.   If you remove students, you lose staffing allocations which means less classes.  You think they are going to do more offerings with less staff and resources?   How does that work?   Having farms is not a bad thing.  It’s the real word.  I don’t mind my kids going to school with your hardworking housekeepers kids.  [/quote]

No high school in MCPS has FARMS funding.  So you don’t need to worry about that.

And you WANT the school to stay overcrowded?  Honestly that’s just a losing cause.[/quote]

Do I want them overcrowded?  No, but the tradeoff is losing resources in an aready stretched school.  They focus on the resource classes and lower classes to get kids to graduation which is a good thing but they should not be sacrificing other students educations in the process.  So, given the choice I’d rather have overcrowding and receiving more teachers and resources.   We e only been to severely overcrowded schools. We don’t know any different.  My kids are used to portables, sitting on air vents or crowded tables.  It is what it is.

What do you think will happen when they pull teachers to fill Woodward?  The schools already struggling will have to make cuts.  [b]Maybe that is why they are removing the arts from Einstein, for example.[/b]  [/quote]

They are?[/quote]

Theater and music will go to Northwood. [/quote]

Currently, both Einstein and Northwood have performing arts "academies" that draw students from throughout the DCC. Einstein also has the countywide visual arts magnet. The regional model proposes:
- Eliminating the DCC, so students in DCC schools will no longer be able to lottery into different DCC schools, they will need to apply for specific programs with limited space in order to attend a school other than their home school. This could weaken "local" programs like the performing arts program at Einstein because even though it is not a magnet or criteria based program, it benefits from attracting students interested in performing arts from other schools.
- Making existing countywide magnets regional and replicating them in each region, so Einstein's Visual Arts magnet will be a criteria based magnet serving Region 1 instead of countywide
- placing a new regional criteria based performing arts magnet at Northwood

They are not "removing the arts" from Einstein but the decades old performing arts program may be weakened because it will only draw students in the Einstein catchment area. The visual arts magnet will remain albeit as a regional rather than countywide magnet.[/quote]

That’s ridiculous. The visual and performing arts naturally complement one another, and students across different artistic disciplines often learn and grow through each other. Splitting them apart undermines that. Northwood is a great school, but it’s never been a true “arts school” like Einstein, nor has it had the same impact on its community or the county as VAPA has. I understand VAPA isn’t being “dismantled,” but this would still cause harm to Einstein and their community. I don’t speak for everyone, but if any program deserves to be regional or countywide, it’s VAPA.[/quote]

It would be great if both schools could have strong arts programs.  Many of the students participate in more than one type of arts, especially music, drawing and theater.  Some all three.  [/quote]

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