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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't matter what consortiums are called or which programs and created or folded, there were good schools and the rest getting by and there will be good schools with the rest just getting by after this. The only changes being a couple will shuffle around from mid tiers schools to losers and a couple just getting by into mid tier but the strong ones will be the same.  All the gripes i see on this board are from the mid tier schools afraid of going backwards draping themself in the flag of justice.  But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one? Blair got to be mid tier by picking off motivated students from the DCC and pulling in hundreds of affluent rock stars, sure on paper it looks less DCC but it was really inflicting on the home schools of those kids what it is decrying will happen to it when it is clustered to better schools and loses the STEM program. All while not making a huge difference to its local kids other than appeasing the middle class who owned homes IB to it. Now each cluster will have a best school and many will have access to a W they never had before. Seems like a step in the right direction[/quote]

What do you mean by "But if it took a disproportionate amount of funds to make a DCC school look less mediocre then what is it really whats the justice on shifting those funds to prop up a couple inside on one?"   Schools like Einstein and Northwood are not mid-tier because of a disproportionate amount of funds being spent on them (and I don't see any reason to think they "look less mediocre than [they] really [are]") and the issue is not that funds are being shifted away from them, it's that they are going to lose half or more of their advanced kids to Blair, BCC, and Whitman and may well end up in an academic death spiral.   MCPS easily could have avoided this by putting academic programs for high-achievers like IB and humanities at Einstein and Northwood rather than BCC and Whitman (which would have helped Einstein and Northwood without hurting BCC and Whitman at all), but they just don't care.   I'm sure the same story is going on in other regions too.[/quote]

I think region 1 is interesting because:

- you have BCC and Whitman which don't currently send a lot of kids to RMIB or SMCS so definitely won't start sending them now. I guess it saves money if they only have to transport kids in one direction but wow.
- this history of BCC refusing to be part of the DCC and so now I think some people in MCPS think they are righting some historical wrong. When it's actually a lot more complicated than that. Part of why I really wish they had actually discussed the reasons for dismantling the DCC and NEC before they voted to dismantle it.
- MCPS staff decided to just throw programs at Whitman and BCC for the optics and cost savings instead of caring what the impacts will be. IB and engineering at BCC just sounds like they care a heck of a lot more about BCC than they do Einstein or Northwood. Like the biotech program idea seems half baked - how many kids are going to be excited about getting a certification to be a non college educated technician in a biotech manufacturing plant while also taking HL IB science courses? Who is this program even for?
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