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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the meeting at Flora Singer this week Taylor said the DCC was a good idea but its “flaw” was not including the “white, wealthy schools.” I’m not sure what he thought he was achieving by sharing that perspective, other than saying the quiet part out loud as is clear from this entire process. [/quote]

That blew my mind when he said that. Then claiming that placing the IB magnet at BCC was to help diversify it. FFS man, read the room.[/quote]

Didn't the Metis report reach essentially that same conclusion about the DCC's flaw?[/quote]

yes[/quote]

So yes and no.

The report states at one point:
[quote]Another key decision made by Board at the time of the development of each consortium was to opt against including high schools with higher proportions of White students and students who were not eligible for FARMS―namely Sherwood HS in the NEC and Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS in the DCC. Without these schools, the student population across each consortium was not as diverse, in terms as race, ethnicity, or socioeconomics. These decisions, thus constrained the potential for the consortia to promote diversity; and the impact of the decisions has been magnified over time with shifts in enrollment and diversity across the consortia.[/quote]

But it also says:
[quote][b]Even though the consortia were designed to increase racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity across the schools, the current school enrollments are demographically very similar to the schools’ base areas.[/b] When established, the high school consortia were each designed to create greater racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity across the participating schools. However, student enrollment across the consortia regions, as discussed in the context section of the report, has increased substantially in the past decades.[/quote]

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/info/choice/choicestudyreport-version2-20160307.pdf

So I'm not sure what the value is of including wealthy white schools if we know it doesn't increase diversity. I think it will do just the opposite.[/quote]

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