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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish the NEC would expand their performing arts program to either Paint Branch or Springbrook. Blake is too highly desired and overcrowded and there are many kids who can’t into the program because of this.[/quote]

This is the inherent flaw of the consortia model that we're talking about. You can't fix it. With the consortia model, inevitably, one or two schools will become the favored ones, leaving the least desirable school underutilized and undesirable by the student population.

In the NEC, that least desirable school is Springbrook. In the DCC, that least desirable school is Kennedy.[/quote]

Kennedy has the least amount of programs and resources to draw the smarter/talented/interested kids.  If they put another magnet program there - maybe a computer science program, kids would go.  [/quote]

Putting the Regional IB Program at Kennedy was MCPS's magnet play. And it's kind of working, but the IB program is incredibly shaky and some of the better resourced, white kids who the Regional IB program was intended to draw to the school are being dropped into Kennedy to great shock with the lack of resources, underwhelming classroom instruction and chaos of the safety environment at the school. Several of those families are abandoning ship when they realize the mediocre state of the school, and I imagine they are telling others about their not-so-great experiences.

The idea of a magnet only works if the program is well resourced and is a good experience for students and families. And right now, the Regional IB Program at Kennedy is not quite there yet. [/quote]

[b]Is Kennedy badly run/staffed/etc?[/b]  Like, there will always be some families who will try to avoid a school with demographics like Kennedy's and will think of schools with those demographics as "bad schools" regardless of any other factors, but some schools with the same demographics can be much better than others.[/quote]

Yes!
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