New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton

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Anonymous wrote:What was the rationale for combining them? Seems odd to add 6 additional HS to the study given that several of the others are not close to the former.

If anything they should just do a district wide boundary study and stop the games. Everyone knows it needs to be done. And the actually have a whole year or two to complete it and the boundary analysis to use as a starting basis.

District wide boundary would be a bit harder as MCPS is quite large. But, what they are proposing here is a good start. I'm actually impressed that they thought of this. I was thinking that they should expand the boundary study for Crown.

Lower MoCo schools are already having their boundaries reassessed with the Woodward HS.

This is actually a very good idea. We know that doing it piecemeal is a waste of time. The upcounty boundary study a few years ago for example resulted in lots of kids now attending high schools and middle schools that don't make sense given where they live.

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Which high schools aren't included in one of these 2 or 3 studies?

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Anonymous wrote:Which high schools aren't included in one of these 2 or 3 studies?

Magruder, Rockville, Sherwood, paint branch, James Blake, Springbrook

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which high schools aren't included in one of these 2 or 3 studies?

Magruder, Rockville, Sherwood, Blake, Paint Branch, and Springbrook

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Which high schools aren't included in one of these 2 or 3 studies?

Magruder, Rockville, Sherwood, Blake, Paint Branch, and Springbrook

Is Sherwood included?

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PP. Oops I read too quickly

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which high schools aren't included in one of these 2 or 3 studies?

Magruder, Rockville, Sherwood, Blake, Paint Branch, and Springbrook

Is Sherwood included?

doesn't look like it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which high schools aren't included in one of these 2 or 3 studies?

Magruder, Rockville, Sherwood, Blake, Paint Branch, and Springbrook

Is Sherwood included?

doesn't look like it

No it's not. The only schools left after the Crown and Woodward boundary study is the Northeast Consortium and Rockville HS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which high schools aren't included in one of these 2 or 3 studies?

Magruder, Rockville, Sherwood, Blake, Paint Branch, and Springbrook

Is Sherwood included?

doesn't look like it

No it's not. The only schools left after the Crown and Woodward boundary study is the Northeast Consortium and Rockville HS.

And Sherwood. And Magruder.

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I think there are enough powerful people in my cluster/ area that we won’t be touched or so I hope

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there are enough powerful people in my cluster/ area that we won’t be touched or so I hope

Which cluster?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think there are enough powerful people in my cluster/ area that we won’t be touched or so I hope

Which cluster?

I'll bet Whitman or Churchill?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Giving this one its own thread.

This morning, MCPS staff proposed combining the boundary studies for Crown and Damascus high schools into one large study with the following high schools and their feeder middle schools in scope: Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Richard Montgomery, Northwest, Poolesville, Quince Orchard, Seneca Valley, Watkins Mill, and Wootton.

The boundary study process would happen during 2025, and the final boundary vote would be in March 2026.

Detailed timeline:

Spring 2024--Request for Proposal released
Summer 2024--Board approves consultant
Fall 2024--Prepare for community engagement
Early 2025-Fall/Winter 2025--Boundary study process
January 2026--Boundary Study Report released
Early February 2026--Recommendation released
Late February-March 2026--Board work sessions, public hearings and action

This study has been proposed, but not approved by the board yet. That would happen at their March 19th meeting.

Lynne Harris seemed keenly interested in closing an elementary school or two in the Wooton cluster (she keyed in on Cold Spring in particular). I suspect she'd vote in favor of this study to ID how to better utilize the free seats in the elementary schools in that cluster.

Because the classrooms have no interior walls. It's a 1970s open concept design, which is no longer desirable.

They don’t have interior walls?! I’m trying to imagine how that works and what it looks like.

Usually this kind of set up has partitions between classrooms that you can open or close. It gives you some flexibility to have classes interact, but it’s not as soundproof as actual walls when you don’t want two classrooms interacting, and sliding partitions are a terrible idea in an era of school lockdowns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there are enough powerful people in my cluster/ area that we won’t be touched or so I hope

Have you considered the possibility that change might be good, not bad?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think there are enough powerful people in my cluster/ area that we won’t be touched or so I hope

Have you considered the possibility that change might be good, not bad?

Change is scary!