So what was this: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2019/12/12/this-is-just-people-screaming-tension-boils-over-at-school-boundaries-meeting/ |
Wow good point. I’m pretty sure PP is the first person to realize this including all of MCPS staff. What a mess. They have no clue what they’re doing. It’s going to be a problem in both boundary studies. |
Ooh death threats! Seriosuly? Why? |
A boundary analysis which included no proposed boundary changes. |
Why are you looking at 5 year old article in bethesda Magzine. You can go to Woodward intial options and see capacity utilization in all 4 options. Woodward does not have extra seats. |
are you kidding? Wootton's boundary is ridiculous. Boundaries haven't changed in that area for 20 years. The country has changed in that time. Honestly, MCPS should've changed boundaries 10 years ago. |
Given that studies have shown low income kids do better when the FARMs rate is no higher than around 30%, while higher SES kids aren't negatively impacted, I can't blame them. |
Okay but how does it make sense to move a lower priced townhouse community out of the school area and into a new school surrounded by condos, apartments and townhomes? Then move a community from Wayside into Wootton. What kind of homes do they think families with lower incomes live with? So they made Wootton richer and Crown from neighborhoods more likely with renters, lower income families, etc? |
They provided a few options. Unfortunately, no option addresses all four factors equally, so a few of the options are going to have an imbalance of FARMS rate. |
That is definitely terrible |
In all options, Whitman has available space. Shifting some from Churchill to Whitman would meet much resistance and doesn’t have to disrupt Wootton at all. |
The issue I see is that MCPS picked on the poorer neighborhoods and schools to move to crown from Wootton and leaving the wealthy untouched. |
Agree. They could move the Avenel people to Whitman. But I don't think it will happen as they look at Crown and Woodward separately |
It's not a conspiracy. Dufief and Stone Mill are closest to Crown. So there are options where they are removed from Wootton. |
No the conspiracy would be only moving the Stone Mill Townhomes to Crown, but keeping the single-family homes at Wootton |