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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that the homes currently in the Churchill zone could be rezoned to a different school or are they protected?

? They indicated they want to include Churchill in the boundary assessment. Why would you think it's "protected"? Is there an invisible wall around the rich Potomac school?

Some kids who go to Churchill are actually closer to where Crown would be, and some who go to RM and Wootton are actually closer to Churchill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that the homes currently in the Churchill zone could be rezoned to a different school or are they protected?

? They indicated they want to include Churchill in the boundary assessment. Why would you think it's "protected"? Is there an invisible wall around the rich Potomac school?

Some kids who go to Churchill are actually closer to where Crown would be, and some who go to RM and Wootton are actually closer to Churchill.

Look, we pay the most property taxes, and they need to make appropriate accommodations to keep our boundaries exclusive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that the homes currently in the Churchill zone could be rezoned to a different school or are they protected?

? They indicated they want to include Churchill in the boundary assessment. Why would you think it's "protected"? Is there an invisible wall around the rich Potomac school?

Some kids who go to Churchill are actually closer to where Crown would be, and some who go to RM and Wootton are actually closer to Churchill.

Look, we pay the most property taxes, and they need to make appropriate accommodations to keep our boundaries exclusive.

too bad for you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

McKnight and the Board just lost Title I money for four schools. That means less resources.

And you want to install a skin color meter on the front door of the schools?

Forget it.

That almost happened with Twinbrook ES when they were looking at redrawing the boundaries when Rustin opened.

One of the options was going to make TBES and RPES 40% FARMs each, which would cause TBES to lose Title 1 status, and the two buses literally bypassing each other on the way to their respective schools. Thankfully, it was shot down, but I hear that there were a couple of BOE members who wanted this option for the optics; it certainly wasn't for the kids or their families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that the homes currently in the Churchill zone could be rezoned to a different school or are they protected?

? They indicated they want to include Churchill in the boundary assessment. Why would you think it's "protected"? Is there an invisible wall around the rich Potomac school?

Some kids who go to Churchill are actually closer to where Crown would be, and some who go to RM and Wootton are actually closer to Churchill.

Look, we pay the most property taxes, and they need to make appropriate accommodations to keep our boundaries exclusive.

You're either a troll or you have a major superiority complex.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty.

This. They need to scrap busing and have some type of magnet at every high school.

As someone who drives my kid to school more often than I would prefer - no. School car traffic and school car drop-off/pick-up are already madness enough. I can't imagine how bad it would be if MCPS scrapped busing.

No one is suggesting to stop busses. What they mean is to stop bussing kids to far away schools to control school demographics. It doesn't work.

The boundary study is likely to result in FEWER kids on buses (for whatever reason, and I don't care what the reason is anyway. A long school bus ride is a long school bus ride.)

There's a small group of angry current and former residents of Montgomery County, who affiliate themselves with the so-called "Moms For Liberty", who are constantly posting about such topics on social media, saying the same things as the alarmist anonymous posters on DCUM. I have drawn my own conclusions for this. You are free to draw your own as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

McKnight and the Board just lost Title I money for four schools. That means less resources.

And you want to install a skin color meter on the front door of the schools?

Forget it.

That almost happened with Twinbrook ES when they were looking at redrawing the boundaries when Rustin opened.

One of the options was going to make TBES and RPES 40% FARMs each, which would cause TBES to lose Title 1 status, and the two buses literally bypassing each other on the way to their respective schools. Thankfully, it was shot down, but I hear that there were a couple of BOE members who wanted this option for the optics; it certainly wasn't for the kids or their families.

No, it did not "almost" happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You notice how the two HS magnet programs are in opposite corners of the county that's inconvenient for the majority of the county? There was another thread a few months back about Crown. The capacity at Crown wasn't even necessary if current boundaries were shifted?

I want to know how many overpaid MCPS Central Office / BOE staff at Hungerford send their kids to College Gardens ES or live in Kings Farm? Someone on the thread was pushing hard to insist that those areas would 100% certain be part of Crown.

Posted by someone who, incorrectly, seems to believe that the only two high school magnet programs in MCPS are Blair SMACS and Poolesville SMCS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

McKnight and the Board just lost Title I money for four schools. That means less resources.

And you want to install a skin color meter on the front door of the schools?

Forget it.

That almost happened with Twinbrook ES when they were looking at redrawing the boundaries when Rustin opened.

One of the options was going to make TBES and RPES 40% FARMs each, which would cause TBES to lose Title 1 status, and the two buses literally bypassing each other on the way to their respective schools. Thankfully, it was shot down, but I hear that there were a couple of BOE members who wanted this option for the optics; it certainly wasn't for the kids or their families.

No, it did not "almost" happen.

2 wanted it, so it could've almost happened. Why did MCPS even put that option forward if they didn't think it was feasible? Or are you saying that MCPS does stuff like this just to mess with people's heads?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

McKnight and the Board just lost Title I money for four schools. That means less resources.

And you want to install a skin color meter on the front door of the schools?

Forget it.

That almost happened with Twinbrook ES when they were looking at redrawing the boundaries when Rustin opened.

One of the options was going to make TBES and RPES 40% FARMs each, which would cause TBES to lose Title 1 status, and the two buses literally bypassing each other on the way to their respective schools. Thankfully, it was shot down, but I hear that there were a couple of BOE members who wanted this option for the optics; it certainly wasn't for the kids or their families.

No, it did not "almost" happen.

2 wanted it, so it could've almost happened. Why did MCPS even put that option forward if they didn't think it was feasible? Or are you saying that MCPS does stuff like this just to mess with people's heads?

"It could've almost happened."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

McKnight and the Board just lost Title I money for four schools. That means less resources.

And you want to install a skin color meter on the front door of the schools?

Forget it.

That almost happened with Twinbrook ES when they were looking at redrawing the boundaries when Rustin opened.

One of the options was going to make TBES and RPES 40% FARMs each, which would cause TBES to lose Title 1 status, and the two buses literally bypassing each other on the way to their respective schools. Thankfully, it was shot down, but I hear that there were a couple of BOE members who wanted this option for the optics; it certainly wasn't for the kids or their families.

No, it did not "almost" happen.

2 wanted it, so it could've almost happened. Why did MCPS even put that option forward if they didn't think it was feasible? Or are you saying that MCPS does stuff like this just to mess with people's heads?

They intentionally create a wide variety of options, some favoring one factor over the others. The recommended option is usually one that does the best job of balancing multiple factors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that the homes currently in the Churchill zone could be rezoned to a different school or are they protected?

Parts of Churchill could be rezoned to Wootton or RM, or perhaps Crown, but that seems less likely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that the homes currently in the Churchill zone could be rezoned to a different school or are they protected?

Parts of Churchill could be rezoned to Wootton or RM, or perhaps Crown, but that seems less likely.

Wootton to be most likely. There are a whole north Potomac between Churchill and crown. It doesn’t make sense that crown would actually take so many students from Wootton and then even Churchill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

McKnight and the Board just lost Title I money for four schools. That means less resources.

And you want to install a skin color meter on the front door of the schools?

Forget it.

That almost happened with Twinbrook ES when they were looking at redrawing the boundaries when Rustin opened.

One of the options was going to make TBES and RPES 40% FARMs each, which would cause TBES to lose Title 1 status, and the two buses literally bypassing each other on the way to their respective schools. Thankfully, it was shot down, but I hear that there were a couple of BOE members who wanted this option for the optics; it certainly wasn't for the kids or their families.

No, it did not "almost" happen.

2 wanted it, so it could've almost happened. Why did MCPS even put that option forward if they didn't think it was feasible? Or are you saying that MCPS does stuff like this just to mess with people's heads?

"It could've almost happened."

yes, it could've. Otherwise, they would not have put that option forward. Or again, are you saying that they just do that to mess with people's heads?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

McKnight and the Board just lost Title I money for four schools. That means less resources.

And you want to install a skin color meter on the front door of the schools?

Forget it.

That almost happened with Twinbrook ES when they were looking at redrawing the boundaries when Rustin opened.

One of the options was going to make TBES and RPES 40% FARMs each, which would cause TBES to lose Title 1 status, and the two buses literally bypassing each other on the way to their respective schools. Thankfully, it was shot down, but I hear that there were a couple of BOE members who wanted this option for the optics; it certainly wasn't for the kids or their families.

No, it did not "almost" happen.

2 wanted it, so it could've almost happened. Why did MCPS even put that option forward if they didn't think it was feasible? Or are you saying that MCPS does stuff like this just to mess with people's heads?

"It could've almost happened."

yes, it could've. Otherwise, they would not have put that option forward. Or again, are you saying that they just do that to mess with people's heads?

I could've almost been a contender.