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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please try to keep this thread about the second round options. There are other threads about the regional program plan.[/quote]

MCPS has made clear these two things are inextricably connected so I don't know how you discuss one without the other[/quote]

It would be helpful for people to be more explicit with HOW the combination is impacting them.  There seem to be a lot of people from DCC who are commenting on boundary threads about how the end of the regional programs will hurt them.  [b]Presumably this means they don't want to attend their home school[/b], but it is unclear if the boundaries changed so that their home school is now even worse.[/quote]

No, you are misrepresenting their posts. You have a narrative you want to push and will push it no matter what we say.[/quote]

well then explain. [/quote]

This has been explained over and over. The DCC helps match kids with a school that is a good fit for them.  For example, people with an artsy kid who like Einstein the way it is and want to send their kids there are frustrated because it will lose a lots of arts kids (in the performing arts in particular) and get weaker in the arts. [/quote]

Right now you have to pick between arts and academics.  With the new plan both will decline.  Einstein has some strong arts kids but not like the other schools as the classes are already limited.  Kids take the same classes year after year as there is no place to advance.  If you want strong arts you have to pay privately which is expensive.  [/quote]

Not true. My child had no prior art experience when entering Einstein—just what he learned from his 8th grade art teacher. After spending four years in Einstein’s Art Magnet Program, he was offered nearly full scholarships to RISD, MICA, and SCAD. If it weren’t for Einstein, we could never have afforded to send him to those schools. I will always be thankful for Einstein.[/quote]

That’s great and your child is super talented. That can happen but that is just one part of the arts at Einstein.  For music and theater the kids are doing outside lessons and programs - PVYO, MCYO, a Jazz group, YAA.  Music kids do private lessons.  Theater kids do voice and acting lessons.   We did not have a good middle school arts experience and had to move everything privately.  [/quote]

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