Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They shouldn't do regions. Just focus on cohorting and opportunities at each school within the current populations. All of these schools are big enough to do this.

It’s not going to be possible to provide every opportunity to every school.

But there should be reasonably equivalent opportunities for students in the catchment of any school. The same access to reasonably similar magnets. The same access to reasonably similar local rigor. No "have" and "have not" zip codes within the public school system.

You expect the school system to fix have not zip codes? Got it

Poor kids still going to do poor kids stuff and the likelihood of increased results for a statistically significant number of kids is close to nil. All this does is avg out the schools moving some good and bad kids around so Bethesda has 1 less reason to thumb their nose at silver spring, Potomac to gaithersburg ect

You have that misunderstood. The school system should be providing the same opportunities, not guaranteeing the same results. Behavior will vary, and, while behavioral-challenge-related funding should be commensurate, as well, there will be a certain amount of variation in results along the lines of, "You can lead a horse to water...," observed. Even with that, though, suggesting that "poor kids" are incapable or lost causes, as seems to be intimated, here, not only is incorrect, but is rather despicable.

There should be no "have" & "have not" zip codes from the perspective of reasonably equivalent academic opportunities/classes available/magnets available/instructional rigor delivered/etc. from within the public local education agency, and that LEA is MCPS, not a particular school, cluster or (upcoming) region. There's plenty of non-publicly-funded educational elements (tutoring, family-driven experiences, private schools, etc.) for that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They shouldn't do regions. Just focus on cohorting and opportunities at each school within the current populations. All of these schools are big enough to do this.

It’s not going to be possible to provide every opportunity to every school.

But there should be reasonably equivalent opportunities for students in the catchment of any school. The same access to reasonably similar magnets. The same access to reasonably similar local rigor. No "have" and "have not" zip codes within the public school system.

You expect the school system to fix have not zip codes? Got it

Poor kids still going to do poor kids stuff and the likelihood of increased results for a statistically significant number of kids is close to nil. All this does is avg out the schools moving some good and bad kids around so Bethesda has 1 less reason to thumb their nose at silver spring, Potomac to gaithersburg ect