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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm trying to understand the downsides of having a region without wealthy schools. I don't think families from wealthy schools are going to send their kids to a high FARMS school. We have seen this in the DCC where with school choice the demographics of the schools still match the home school area. We are zoned for Einstein and I would rather not be in a region with BCC or Whitman. It will just siphon off high performing kids who can do the commute and make it harder to offer advanced classes.[/quote]

Another Einstein parent who agrees.   Also, I don’t want my kid at Whitman or even BCC!  I considered and rejected those environments when we bought a house, and I don’t think ant my STEM kid to have to choose between rigor and that kind of place.

I am also upset that they are screaming “equity” while, in our proposed region, putting academic programs in rich white schools and music/dance in the poorer Black and Brown schools.  [/quote]

+1 they are not approaching this from an equity lens. They are putting programs in based on what schools already have which will just exacerbate inequities.[/quote]

Parent engagement is tied to equity because program implementation depends on the number of interested students. Parents would have to know about the programs, find out whether their child would be a good fit and then apply by the deadline. Right now, even regions are a bit of a stretch unless MCPS starts automatically inviting students then leave it to the parents to accept or decline.[/quote]

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