Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study

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Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

That has zero to do with school boundaries changing every so often, which is a challenging, yet perfectly normal thing people should be able to handle.

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Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

Please, I'm a parent in the RM cluster. My one DC has some anxiety and depression issues and is a very sensitive kid, but I don't try to coddle them. I try to teach them to be, yes, resilient. Because that is what it takes in this world to live.

You are not doing your kids any favors by trying to coddle them.

You can advocate for your kids, but thinking that having them and the entire neighborhood move to a different cluster is going to be traumatic is just pathetic. IMO, you are probably more coddled than your kids are.

Please, it’s not the moving the cluster, it’s moving them in the middle of middle school and the middle of high school. There are better ways to do it and the more you use the word resilient the more we will bring up COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

MCPS has very limited redistricting but even those changes have left lasting impacts. In Clarksburg, families rezoned out of their expected schools are still deeply upset. Even the residents from the Ritchie Park, who were reassigned to RM decades ago, still express long-standing resentment now. Many continue to speak about the emotional toll and lasting mental harm they experienced from these redistricting decisions. These concerns should not be taken lightly.

well, they need to get over it. And it wasn't about the kids; it was about their home values. Of course, moving schools is not easy, but the kids will get over it if you let them. Your attitude impacts them more than anything else. Teach your kids to be resilient.

-HH resident with old time neighbors who still do talk about it. BTW, some of those kids who are now adults live in the RM cluster, and send their kids there.

Their property values dropped as a result of redistricting?

Yes , it did. Back then RM was not a good school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

Please, I'm a parent in the RM cluster. My one DC has some anxiety and depression issues and is a very sensitive kid, but I don't try to coddle them. I try to teach them to be, yes, resilient. Because that is what it takes in this world to live.

You are not doing your kids any favors by trying to coddle them.

You can advocate for your kids, but thinking that having them and the entire neighborhood move to a different cluster is going to be traumatic is just pathetic. IMO, you are probably more coddled than your kids are.

How do you know what I do with my kids? I was pointing out that MCPS did kids wrong by keeping schools closed longer than needed...longer that most of the country. It is the biggest reason kids are so far behind academically. And kids were depressed and lost. You may have kids who are resilient, but that isn't the case for all. My kids didn't have to deal with that crap because I pulled them out and put them in a private school that was in person for the 2020-21 entire school year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

That has zero to do with school boundaries changing every so often, which is a challenging, yet perfectly normal thing people should be able to handle.

Yeah...sounds familiar!! So many said our kids should be able to handle the covid closures. And look what happened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

That has zero to do with school boundaries changing every so often, which is a challenging, yet perfectly normal thing people should be able to handle.

Yeah...sounds familiar!! So many said our kids should be able to handle the covid closures. And look what happened.

Covid closures: not expected, not normal
Boundary changes: expected, normal

See the difference?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

Please, I'm a parent in the RM cluster. My one DC has some anxiety and depression issues and is a very sensitive kid, but I don't try to coddle them. I try to teach them to be, yes, resilient. Because that is what it takes in this world to live.

You are not doing your kids any favors by trying to coddle them.

You can advocate for your kids, but thinking that having them and the entire neighborhood move to a different cluster is going to be traumatic is just pathetic. IMO, you are probably more coddled than your kids are.

How do you know what I do with my kids? I was pointing out that MCPS did kids wrong by keeping schools closed longer than needed...longer that most of the country. It is the biggest reason kids are so far behind academically. And kids were depressed and lost. You may have kids who are resilient, but that isn't the case for all. My kids didn't have to deal with that crap because I pulled them out and put them in a private school that was in person for the 2020-21 entire school year.

but this thread is not about covid. You are comparing boundary changes to covid closure. GMAFB.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

That has zero to do with school boundaries changing every so often, which is a challenging, yet perfectly normal thing people should be able to handle.

Yeah...sounds familiar!! So many said our kids should be able to handle the covid closures. And look what happened.

Covid closures: not expected, not normal
Boundary changes: expected, normal

See the difference?

Boundary changes that disrupt students' with multiple articulations and busing them across town: not normal

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

That has zero to do with school boundaries changing every so often, which is a challenging, yet perfectly normal thing people should be able to handle.

Yeah...sounds familiar!! So many said our kids should be able to handle the covid closures. And look what happened.

Covid closures: not expected, not normal
Boundary changes: expected, normal

See the difference?

+1 good gracious. Some of you parents are big snowflakes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

Please, I'm a parent in the RM cluster. My one DC has some anxiety and depression issues and is a very sensitive kid, but I don't try to coddle them. I try to teach them to be, yes, resilient. Because that is what it takes in this world to live.

You are not doing your kids any favors by trying to coddle them.

You can advocate for your kids, but thinking that having them and the entire neighborhood move to a different cluster is going to be traumatic is just pathetic. IMO, you are probably more coddled than your kids are.

Please, it’s not the moving the cluster, it’s moving them in the middle of middle school and the middle of high school. There are better ways to do it and the more you use the word resilient the more we will bring up COVID.

They will still adjust. Hundreds of kids before them have done it. They will be fine if you let them be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

Please, I'm a parent in the RM cluster. My one DC has some anxiety and depression issues and is a very sensitive kid, but I don't try to coddle them. I try to teach them to be, yes, resilient. Because that is what it takes in this world to live.

You are not doing your kids any favors by trying to coddle them.

You can advocate for your kids, but thinking that having them and the entire neighborhood move to a different cluster is going to be traumatic is just pathetic. IMO, you are probably more coddled than your kids are.

How do you know what I do with my kids? I was pointing out that MCPS did kids wrong by keeping schools closed longer than needed...longer that most of the country. It is the biggest reason kids are so far behind academically. And kids were depressed and lost. You may have kids who are resilient, but that isn't the case for all. My kids didn't have to deal with that crap because I pulled them out and put them in a private school that was in person for the 2020-21 entire school year.

but this thread is not about covid. You are comparing boundary changes to covid closure. GMAFB.

I am just using an example of one of MCPS's failures where they claimed students would be able to thrive during closures because they are so reslilient. They didn't and they weren't.

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Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

That has zero to do with school boundaries changing every so often, which is a challenging, yet perfectly normal thing people should be able to handle.

Yeah...sounds familiar!! So many said our kids should be able to handle the covid closures. And look what happened.

Covid closures: not expected, not normal
Boundary changes: expected, normal

See the difference?

+1 good gracious. Some of you parents are big snowflakes.

Not a parent. Just an observer who has friends who are parents. I would never send my kids to MCPS schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

Instead of being taught to be flexible and adaptation, children now get sheltered and coddled by parents who were also sheltered and coddled. And parents who have turned into people who get angry about a brand new beautiful school to move into in one of our state's best school systems (with its share of problems, too). The whole situation is messed up. They opened a new ES near me. "oh good, ours will be less crowded when the new one opens" It was less crowded, particularly since my family was sent to the new school! My kids did fine.

Another kids are resilient crap. This is the reason MCPS keeps failing because they just don’t care about the kids well-being.

This 100%. MCPS BOE members must have used the word resilient 100 times during the covid closures. I can just hear the word now coming from behind Monika's mask.

Please, I'm a parent in the RM cluster. My one DC has some anxiety and depression issues and is a very sensitive kid, but I don't try to coddle them. I try to teach them to be, yes, resilient. Because that is what it takes in this world to live.

You are not doing your kids any favors by trying to coddle them.

You can advocate for your kids, but thinking that having them and the entire neighborhood move to a different cluster is going to be traumatic is just pathetic. IMO, you are probably more coddled than your kids are.

Please, it’s not the moving the cluster, it’s moving them in the middle of middle school and the middle of high school. There are better ways to do it and the more you use the word resilient the more we will bring up COVID.

They will still adjust. Hundreds of kids before them have done it. They will be fine if you let them be fine.

Not all can. Especially when only 5-10 kids per grade from a school gets split out. They’re not split out with hundreds of kids. They’re singled out.

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Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

MCPS has very limited redistricting but even those changes have left lasting impacts. In Clarksburg, families rezoned out of their expected schools are still deeply upset. Even the residents from the Ritchie Park, who were reassigned to RM decades ago, still express long-standing resentment now. Many continue to speak about the emotional toll and lasting mental harm they experienced from these redistricting decisions. These concerns should not be taken lightly.

well, they need to get over it. And it wasn't about the kids; it was about their home values. Of course, moving schools is not easy, but the kids will get over it if you let them. Your attitude impacts them more than anything else. Teach your kids to be resilient.

-HH resident with old time neighbors who still do talk about it. BTW, some of those kids who are now adults live in the RM cluster, and send their kids there.

Their property values dropped as a result of redistricting?

Oh, yeah. I believe it was $50-100k and there was a big fight but in the end MCPS did what they wanted anyway. And yes, it was quite a few years ago. I think in the mid-80s.

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Anonymous wrote:I was commenting on Woodward thread. Many parents have genuine problem with some options.

In this thread, Wayside parents should be happy that there is no nuclear option like option 3 in Woodward where you get shipped to Gaithersburg HS to balance FARMS.

Wayside going from Churchill to Wootton should be a non-event for most families. Not sure why so much noise. Wootton is equally good school.

The neighborhoods moving from Wootton to Crown seems like the the biggest losers in the Crown options.

Yes, it’s a big loss for many people, not just on property value but also having to leave friends and attend a brand new half done school without auditorium. Many uncertainties especially for the 9th graders who have to leave on whether the new school offer the same rigorous courses, club/sports activities, etc

Hundreds of kids have had to move schools due to boundary changes. Your kids will be alright. Sheesh.

Where? You lack basic empathy for affected kids.

Where? Have you been living under a rock? MCPS has had a few boundaries redrawn in the past 10 years.

My kids moved schools, including across the country. They are fine. Yes, it will be hard at first, but they will adjust. It's not like they are moving all alone. Your entire neighborhood will move. Sheesh. I hope you teach your kids more resilience.

MCPS has very limited redistricting but even those changes have left lasting impacts. In Clarksburg, families rezoned out of their expected schools are still deeply upset. Even the residents from the Ritchie Park, who were reassigned to RM decades ago, still express long-standing resentment now. Many continue to speak about the emotional toll and lasting mental harm they experienced from these redistricting decisions. These concerns should not be taken lightly.

well, they need to get over it. And it wasn't about the kids; it was about their home values. Of course, moving schools is not easy, but the kids will get over it if you let them. Your attitude impacts them more than anything else. Teach your kids to be resilient.

-HH resident with old time neighbors who still do talk about it. BTW, some of those kids who are now adults live in the RM cluster, and send their kids there.

Their property values dropped as a result of redistricting?

Oh, yeah. I believe it was $50-100k and there was a big fight but in the end MCPS did what they wanted anyway. And yes, it was quite a few years ago. I think in the mid-80s.

Yiiikes. Time to move to the Whitman area.