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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boundaries are changing.  Folks just need to accept that and get over it.  Property values are not the focus or problem of the school district. Should the district maintain walkers, YES , but because it makes good sense in terms of resource usage (buses, people, finances).  Will there be some splits articulations, YES, it’s inevitable given where schools are located and the amount of kids we’re talking about. Should they minimize the split articulations as much as possible(again for resource usage) and spread it around where makes sense, YES.

This whole “W school” thing is old and over emphasized. Frankly it would do the district a world of good to publicly toss it in the graveyard once and for all.[/quote]
+1 It would be great if MCPS could even out the FARMs rate across all of the schools so we can stop with the "W" school nonsense.[/quote]

I agree in theory, but how do you do this in a county where the wealth is largely concentrated in the western portion and the poverty is largely concentrated in the eastern portion and these portions are miles and miles and almost an hour apart? This is how they're trying to do their best at doing that. The only improvement I can see that would help is to create MORE high-achieving magnets in the poorer parts of the county, but when you already have strong schools in the western part, people opt out because too far is too far. I mean, just look at Churchill's Beyond the Bulldog 2025 Instagram: these kids don't need magnets to get into good colleges or to have a strong HS experience, and yes I realize a lot are full pay and don't have to do the donut-hole dance so that is also part of the reason why the colleges are so impressive (they can simply afford them). [/quote]
yes, as a PP stated, having more poors in your school is not going to change your kid's outcome.  But, it will help the lower income kid to have access to more resources, like more challenging courses.  If you look at the lower performing schools, they don't have as many AP classes as higher performing schools do.[/quote]

Better solution is to give us "poors" (and not all the families in these schools are "poor" but if you want to think that go ahead), more AP's, clubs, sports to make it equal.  Our numbers look bad as our kids aren't encouraged to take classes like Calc BC, and there are no classes after Calc BC, nor any science AP's.  We have very little CS and engineering.[/quote]

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