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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite was Essie McGuire - when asked about the continued necessity of the regional model being linked with the boundary study since there is declining enrollment, I got the impression that she was making it up on the spot. Even said that because there is declining enrollment, this is even more reason to keep the regional model going with the boundary study.

I was thinking that with declining enrollment, the spaces in the schools will open up, so there is no longer the urgent need to force the regional model prematurely. AKA the regional model can be separated from the boundary study.

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Total nonsense (Essie) — and agree with you. With the new enrollment numbers, I don’t think it’s difficult to have no high school &gt;90% utilization, leaving plenty of room for whichever programs turn out to be more popular than others, which isn’t something that can be known ahead of time anyway.[/quote]

I also pushed on this, saying how slides from October about transportation estimated a similar number of students leaving each high school even though the high schools are different sizes and have historically had different percentages of students opt to leave their home school for different programs.  They agreed that they do not know how many students from each school will leave for a program.  They said they will grow and shrink programs based on demand.  So I mentioned how, if they have no sense of numbers anyway and haven't done any meaningful research to get estimates, then there is no reason the boundary study and program analysis need to be linked- they can just make sure to leave room in all schools for future programs.  Their response "the boundary study and program analysis are inextricably linked."[/quote]

This is maddening. [/quote]

I have yet to understand why they linked the boundary study and program analysis. Does anyone know? [/quote]

So Thomas Taylor use the fact that revamped everything in MCPS to get a better job before he has to deal with the disaster he’s creating. [/quote]

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