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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Northwood should have the criteria-based performing arts program reinstated ASAP for starters.[/quote]

But why? I have a child who wants to join the Law Academy at Northwood. When my oldest attended Northwood, the arts program wasn’t that prominent. I fully support Einstein having the Performing Arts Magnet — that’s what the school is known for. However, the real issue is that the county seems unwilling to give Northwood the Humanities program because they don’t view our students as thinkers, future lawmakers, or leaders. A Humanities program could benefit Northwood tremendously, but instead, they’re giving both of our academy programs to the “W” schools.[/quote]

there's only one "w" school in the region....[/quote]

Oh come on, you know what she means.  Lots of people consider BCC an honorary W school.[/quote]

B-CC, with a 25% FARMS rate and less than 50% white, is very different from Whitman. It’s convenient for people on this board to lump them together to say “the W schools” are getting everything in an us vs. them way, but it’s not that simple. [/quote]

To those of us in schools that are 60%+ FARMS, that makes BCC the same as any W school.  And you not realizing that is part of the problem. [/quote]

right there are differences but you dismiss the existance and needs of students at these schools when you lump them together and say they are all white and all rich[/quote]

That's exactly right. The B-CC cluster was affected in the first set of boundary options, but the students who would've been the most impacted are the Black and Latino kids in the apartments on the east side of the cluster who were being sent to middle schools farther away, even if they stayed at B-CC for high school, and in one option were sent to Whitman and in another option to WJ, which are both less accessible by public transportation than B-CC. The west part of the cluster (mostly Westland MS) was left alone in the first options. So, the fact that the new options don't mess with B-CC is a good thing for the lower-income kids at B-CC, whose needs are no less important than those of lower-income kids in the DCC just because their school isn't 60% FARMS. [/quote]

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