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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm a Centrist Dem- So let's just take all the high achieving minorities from all the other schools and put them into one school ? In an effort to solve one problem, you just created multiple new ones. How about this? Let's put in the effort of making each school as strong as possible by having theme- based schools (like the DCC) and allow kids to go to whatever school they want to based on their interest, as long as it doesn't cause overcrowding at that school. Look at Wheaton. Wheaton HS used to be the school that no one wanted to go to; and now it's quickly turning its reputation around since the implementation of it's Engineering program.[/quote]

No one wants to go to Wheaton. The DCC is a failure from an integration standpoint. Look at the over selection of Blair and the demographics of Kennedy. Even the Metis report identified the DCC as a failure for its original intent.

You don't sound like a centrist Dem. [/quote]
So let's put BCC into the DCC. Also why not WJ and Whitman. They're all "down county" by the map.[/quote]

How would Whitman’s successes help the failing schools in the east? It is full anyway so the likelyhood any Blair or Einstein kids being able to jump ship is slim.  And their would never be any kids apart from the magnet kids who would opt out for those schools.

Honestly the only people who would benifit would be silver spring home owners who could pull one over on parent home buyers who didn’t do their homework and underestimate the odds of opting out of their local school.[/quote]

It isn’t that schools like Whitman are successful but their test acerages are buoyed by the absence of low SES students which is on point[/quote]

AND because at schools like Whitman, parents can afford to supplement with standardized testing prep, tutoring services like Mathnasium and Kumon, not to mention summer academic "camps" to get ahead.  As a "W" school parent, it is unclear to me that the instruction in our classrooms is any better. [/quote]

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