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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]while it makes sense as that is the reason the magnet program exists to prop up weak schools. Kennedy is the weakest school in MoCo. Problem would be that Blair would fall of a cliff statistically (although not much would really change) and the DCC would lose the one school parents felt ok about. I don't think W parents draw any distinction between sending their kids to Blair VS Kennedy, just different sides of the same coin. [/quote]

Statistically it would have little impact on Blair. They really just need to implement the cohort method for admission or simply restrict admission to the DCC.[/quote]

Blair's test scores and white students would drop noticeably while the FARMS rate would see a bump. Say what you will but those are the very reasons the program was put there originally to engineer those stats.  If those take a hit then the school would run the risk of losing brand value quickly which affect new middle class family from moving in which might exacerbate the white flight currently affecting the eastern county.

Why would they ever restrict the program to the DCC when it was designed get W kids to integrate DCC schools? The only way that plan would work if the Ws formed a WCC and got their own magnet which the optics of the county spending millions on rich white kids who would get the newest and shiny program would not play well. Yes W kids have their strong cohort so the need to do the magnet program isn't as great but that doesn't mean that the need for that cohort to be supplemented to the DCC isn't still there.  [/quote]

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