Blair Magnet moving to Kennedy or Springbrook

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will the move begin in 2019-20? All current students and the new class?

It will begin right after they finish addressing segregation at the W's by implementing the new diverse boundaries for those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy should get a stem magnet just for W students but with an in boundary set aside of 50%.

Blair will retain its magnet but will be exclusive to the DCC and the W's will get a magnet at Kennedy which also gets a 50% in boundary set aside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woodward doesn't exist yet but unless it becomes only DCC kids which nobody seems to want have happen then it can't solve the huge over capacity numbers that Blair, Einstein and Northwood are projecting. Kennedy and Springbrook are projecting to be under enrolled. Springbrook more so than Kennedy.

If Blair sheds the magnet and goes down to being only 200 over it could possibly take some neighborhoods that are across the street but zoned to Northwood. WJ, Einstein and Northwood send some neighborhoods to Woodward. Woodward has an enriched magnet lite DCC only option to make people happy. Blair magnet goes to Kennedy.

It certainly balances enrollment better, achieves the diversity goal, and raises up a struggling school. TP politicians have no grounds to say boo about it. Its hard to argue against it beyond self interest.

Woodward will draw from its adjoining neighbors WJ, BCC, and Einstein. It will be interesting to see how the new diversity guidance affects the new boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Is there a shred of real evidence that supports this wacky theory or is this just some W mom's Blair fantasy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a shred of real evidence that supports this wacky theory or is this just some W mom's Blair fantasy?

It's pure speculation fueled by Blair envy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woodward doesn't exist yet but unless it becomes only DCC kids which nobody seems to want have happen then it can't solve the huge over capacity numbers that Blair, Einstein and Northwood are projecting. Kennedy and Springbrook are projecting to be under enrolled. Springbrook more so than Kennedy.

If Blair sheds the magnet and goes down to being only 200 over it could possibly take some neighborhoods that are across the street but zoned to Northwood. WJ, Einstein and Northwood send some neighborhoods to Woodward. Woodward has an enriched magnet lite DCC only option to make people happy. Blair magnet goes to Kennedy.

It certainly balances enrollment better, achieves the diversity goal, and raises up a struggling school. TP politicians have no grounds to say boo about it. Its hard to argue against it beyond self interest.

Woodward will draw from its adjoining neighbors WJ, BCC, and Einstein. It will be interesting to see how the new diversity guidance affects the new boundaries.

Wheaton's base area is closer to Woodward than Einstein's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard the county is doing this in conjunction with improving diversity by radically redrawing the W boundaries.

They'd discussed shuffling the magnets after reworking the school boundaries to enhance diversity, but with most of Langley Park bussed to Wooton and Churchill, there will be plenty of room at Blair to expand the magnet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard the county is doing this in conjunction with improving diversity by radically redrawing the W boundaries.

They'd discussed shuffling the magnets after reworking the school boundaries to enhance diversity, but with most of Langley Park bussed to Wooton and Churchill, there will be plenty of room at Blair to expand the magnet.

But I heard that busing poor kids to W school is not fair to the poor kids who have to suffer long bus ride, the propose is to bus kids in W schools to DCC or cross busing, west to east and east to west.

[Anonymous]

Why the focus on Blair..surely rmib must move too. RM is over crowded. That is a much easier program to more since the kids take almost no classes with the other kids. The busses are not connected to other programs. They need no specialized equipment. Wouldnt diversity be better served having it at Watkins Mill? RM could have a standard IB program like BCC and Rockville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woodward doesn't exist yet but unless it becomes only DCC kids which nobody seems to want have happen then it can't solve the huge over capacity numbers that Blair, Einstein and Northwood are projecting. Kennedy and Springbrook are projecting to be under enrolled. Springbrook more so than Kennedy.

If Blair sheds the magnet and goes down to being only 200 over it could possibly take some neighborhoods that are across the street but zoned to Northwood. WJ, Einstein and Northwood send some neighborhoods to Woodward. Woodward has an enriched magnet lite DCC only option to make people happy. Blair magnet goes to Kennedy.

It certainly balances enrollment better, achieves the diversity goal, and raises up a struggling school. TP politicians have no grounds to say boo about it. Its hard to argue against it beyond self interest.

Woodward will draw from its adjoining neighbors WJ, BCC, and Einstein. It will be interesting to see how the new diversity guidance affects the new boundaries.

Wheaton's base area is closer to Woodward than Einstein's.

Viers Mill ES used to feed to Woodward

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the focus on Blair..surely rmib must move too. RM is over crowded. That is a much easier program to more since the kids take almost no classes with the other kids. The busses are not connected to other programs. They need no specialized equipment. Wouldnt diversity be better served having it at Watkins Mill? RM could have a standard IB program like BCC and Rockville.

This thread is pure fantasy fueled by magnet envy. The county faces many challenges like segregated boundaries, failed curriculim and a widening achiement gap. Meddling with one of its rare and successful programs at the most diverse school in the state isn’t on anyone’s radar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard the county is doing this in conjunction with improving diversity by radically redrawing the W boundaries.

It’s not a matter of moving students. It’s Montgomery county needing to basically fix up the east side to make it desirable to UMC families again.
At one time Kennedy was 65% white and a decent enough school.
It wasn’t rich like Wooten but it was a nice area.

How about they raize Glenmont. And all the endless low end apartments around there.
New houses. New stores. New residents. Make the area surrounding Kennedy nice. Get the house prices up.


But where do all the minority People then go? The fact is not every school is or can be UMC (white) its just reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the focus on Blair..surely rmib must move too. RM is over crowded. That is a much easier program to more since the kids take almost no classes with the other kids. The busses are not connected to other programs. They need no specialized equipment. Wouldnt diversity be better served having it at Watkins Mill? RM could have a standard IB program like BCC and Rockville.

This thread is pure fantasy fueled by magnet envy. The county faces many challenges like segregated boundaries, failed curriculum and a widening achievement gap. Meddling with one of its rare and successful programs at the most diverse school in the state isn’t on anyone’s radar.

You have to admire the troll though. Seriously just an unsubstantiated rumor without supporting facts and W parents seething with magnet envy go bananas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard the county is doing this in conjunction with improving diversity by radically redrawing the W boundaries.

It’s not a matter of moving students. It’s Montgomery county needing to basically fix up the east side to make it desirable to UMC families again.
At one time Kennedy was 65% white and a decent enough school.
It wasn’t rich like Wooten but it was a nice area.

How about they raize Glenmont. And all the endless low end apartments around there.
New houses. New stores. New residents. Make the area surrounding Kennedy nice. Get the house prices up.


But where do all the minority People then go? The fact is not every school is or can be UMC (white) its just reality.


Poor people in MoCo have to live somewhere. Glenmont is accessible to jobs in Rockville, Wheaton, SS, and DC. There are affordable stores (Kmart, Shoppers, a few thrift and dollar stores).

If you want to gentrify Glenmont, make the County set aside more affordable units in Metro accessible Western areas of the County.

[Anonymous]

Magnet programs do not belong to the school and they are just hosted there. Mostly the magnet students endure the long ride and the good/bad/medium state of the school facilities for the program.

MCPS can move the program anywhere they want. To buy homes next to magnet schools is really dumb, because the location is not set in stone.

I agree. I think this is very likely to happen. There is just no other way to improve Kennedy without moving the Blair magnet. To be attractive and prestigious a magnet has to pull from across the entire county. The consortium only or school based magnets may offer some more interesting content programming but they do very little to shift the performance of the school. There also is no where to redistrict other neighborhoods out of Blair. The surrounding schools are just as overcrowded. Blair is already almost twice the size of Northwood and Kennedy.

Its solves a bunch of problems and at the end of the day is basically just moving a magnet from one DCC school to another DCC school.