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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Einstein and Northwood don't have the same course offerings as the W schools, so the assumption that many of us want to be at W schools isn't accurate.  What's going to happen due to lack of offerings, which are going to decline more with the redistricting and losing students/staff is a greater divide in course offerings and families whose kids prop up these schools with higher scores are going to flee.  Many of us cannot make the transportation to somewhere like Whitman, nor would I ever want my kids at that school.  We could afford a W school home comfortably, but we don't want that kind of enviroment for our kids.  We are going to monitor things but we may move to somewhere like Howard as we are not pleased with MCPS.  We have some great individual teachers, but the admin at our schools are terrible and not responsive and they are tone death to kids needs/wants.[/quote]

Einstein and Northwood are getting the shortest end of the stick here, but Blair is not a winner in this. The only winners are west county schools.

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