First of all, my neighborhood going back to Wootton is not an option and not going to happen. Some people are delusional. Secondly, RM won't be crowded after the boundary change. Third, while it's "walkable" to Wootton, I would not be thrilled to have them walk through HH park in the winter at 7:15am. The snow on that path is not cleared. I think I know this neighborhood better than you do. FG/KF is not the only higher SES in the cluster. All of the HS will look different after the boundary change. In any case, BOE doesn't care about home values. I don't know how many times I have to say it. |
| QO may become 13% FARMS and majority white again. That’s wild. It will could end up being higher performing than WJ |
It's poor decision to create another Whitman. MCPS should figure out areas to include in QO for economic diversity. |
WJ cluster is done depending on where you are located. If you are in Tilden area then proposed boundary will take FARMS to 35-45% in all options. Woodward will be another Einstein in all likleyhood. Even North Bethesda area is having 30% FARMS in option 3. Entire WJ cluster may go down by a huge margin with option 3. |
Even worse, they can't even walk out to Falls Rd and then walk up to Wootton because the Maryland, Montgomery County, and Rockville cannot figure out whose responsibility clearing the sidewalks along Falls Rd is. Rockville City says it is the state, since the adjacent route is MD-189. Maryland Highway Administration says they don't clear sidewalks. Montgomery County says they have nothing to do with it. Each snow storm, the snow there stays there until it melts, usually all the way up from Kersey across 270 to Great Falls Rd/Maryland Ave. |
Which option makes this 13 percent FARMS in QO HS? I am lost in all 4 options. |
option 4 |
Option 4 is the most extreme one which definitely has no chance. |
Extreme for who? What school are you at? Option 4 makes a lot of sense to me. It is the best option by far. |
Either way, we all know the reason it doesn't work is because of all the split articulations. This happens because they left ES out of the scope of the study. Let's go to the root cause of the problem and solve it there. |
Which ES or MS get split articulation problems in option 4? |
Ritchie Park is split in half still in option 4. Kids lose half their friends in a school that is already small. |
| Also how does any of this work for CES assignments? Right now, it's by cluster/cluster group. For example, if you go live in Falls Grove and go to Richie Park, your CES enrichment location would be Barnsley. Would that stay that way in an option that splits the Fallsgrove Island out to Crown? I'm sure other situations like this exist. It's as if the BoE didn't have a clue what they were doing and just pulled a DOGE by telling AI to make a boundary map |
Some of the splitting is less than ideal but it probably works for everybody except for Falls Grove. |
20-30 ES are split in option 4. |