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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Consortia serve only two purposes - to make parents feel like they have some choice in their high school, while also making elected BOE members not draw "hard" boundary lines, which can make constituents angry.

They cost MCPS millions in transportation costs per year while also [b]completely killing the feeling of community in schools[/b].[/quote]

To be fair, I think private schools are doing that more than the consortiums.[/quote]

No, the consortia is definitely hurting that feeling of community. In my neighborhood alone, we have kids split between Northwood, Kennedy, Blair and Wheaton. There's no way you can build community when kids from that same neighborhood are split across that many schools.[/quote]

I’m in the NEC and more than half of the kids in the neighborhood are in private school. Those kids don’t even know their neighbors.[/quote]

What do these private school families look like compared to h NEC families they’re trying to avoid? That tells you everything. Adding Sherwood to the NEC would fix some of this[/quote]

I’m sure you already know the answer.[/quote]

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