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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]

Are the SMCS and CAP programs at Blair examples of academic programs at rich, white schools? Same with Biomedical at Einstein?[/quote]

1. They are eliminating SMCS and CAP, so don’t use them to defend the new model. 
2. As for Biomedical at Einstein.   I will believe that when I see it IRL. It is actually called “health sciences,” and I fear it will be for people who want degrees like MA/LPN that take like nine months of training.  We need more of them, but that’s not where my kid is aiming.  [/quote]

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