Anonymous wrote:Poor Kennedy. No one is going to commute there for a Watkins Mill-type IB program, and the medical science program is a hospital assistant program that will not attract the top students who want to be medical doctors. MCPS really sticking it to the poors with their projected regional model.

I thought DCC wanted to put the in demand programs at the poorest schools. At least for IB it seems like Kennedy is the right choice to satisfy that DCC demand.

Anonymous wrote:Poor Kennedy. No one is going to commute there for a Watkins Mill-type IB program, and the medical science program is a hospital assistant program that will not attract the top students who want to be medical doctors. MCPS really sticking it to the poors with their projected regional model.

If they improved the IB program would it be a draw? Or it purely that Kennedy is undesirable for other reasons?

Anonymous wrote:Poor Kennedy. No one is going to commute there for a Watkins Mill-type IB program, and the medical science program is a hospital assistant program that will not attract the top students who want to be medical doctors. MCPS really sticking it to the poors with their projected regional model.

I was also under the impression the medical science program was for medical assistants (which are great, in-demand jobs) but apparently it has a different list of career paths, like medical geneticists. I don’t really know, but I at least was mistaken in what it would be offering.

Poor Kennedy. No one is going to commute there for a Watkins Mill-type IB program, and the medical science program is a hospital assistant program that will not attract the top students who want to be medical doctors. MCPS really sticking it to the poors with their projected regional model.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually do think we should fight to keep the DCC model.

No, it's been horrible for Kennedy.

School choice is a conservative approach to education that treats schools like businesses that have to compete with one another. It doesn't work. The kids that most need better schools don't have the resources to travel to a further school.

How has it been horrible for Kennedy? How would not being part of the DCC have been better?

I am a Kennedy fan, btw. Sometimes I feel like the only one.

Low enrollment, horrifically bad test scores

There's more to a school than test scores. More of you should take the tour, look those kids in the eye and then go on about how their hard work and the work of their educators doesn't matter.

I'm not saying their work doesn't matter. Hard work is important. But being able to demonstrate learning is also important. We want kids to learn. They need to be able to read and right and understand math to be successful in the workforce. And test scores at Kennedy are terrible even when comparing the same demographic groups to schools with similar FARMS rates.