Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
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Anonymous
Most likely no because you’re talking about 1-2 classe. Dual Enrollment is an alternative. |
Anonymous
Could be 10-15 AP classes for the rest of high school. Who knows what AP courses crown is able to offer. |
Anonymous
You are just a segregationist trying to justify it |
Anonymous
You’re just DEI Zealot |
Anonymous
If the school is close to you, it isn’t at all DEI or unfair to zone you for not. Your problem is in the mirror. If your child has real potential, they can realize it many ways. Getting 4 grades above level is great, but not the only or even best way to get into a good college or path for success. There are many paths. The smart people make it happen, and Crown HS isn’t going to block them. |
Anonymous
Same poster here.. I’ll add that I was an MCPS magnet student. I do very well, though I didn’t take the traditional path immediately post-HS. I have many friends who went to schools much “worse,” and the smartest ones do just great. When your child goes to college—whether it be UMD or MIT—and maybe it won’t even be those schools or any school at first—they will be surrounded by people who didn’t go to Wootton or Churchill. Their peers didn’t have super enrichment and pushy parents. |
Anonymous
I don't know. I've met people who are pretty well respected in their fields out of state. ie they're out in California and not from this area. And when I tell them where I'm from, they're like, "Oh you're close to <one of the W schools>?" I figure they probably met people from those schools either through school or work. So the success rate of the grads from some of those are pretty high. I know not everyone has a different definition of success. But I can't deny that some of these schools probably have great reputations outside of the area. |
Anonymous
If you need to be a bad person to get your success, you still are a bad person |
Anonymous
You had access to the resources you earned. These kids don’t. They’re being rezoned to a school without many friends and without the same academic opportunities their peers they grow up with still have—just because they’re the group being picked to be zoned out. None of the Wootton area is far from either Wootton or Crown, so this isn’t about distance. It’s about zoning students out of opportunity. MCPS may claim all schools offer the same opportunities, but that’s not how it plays out. A strong academic cohort makes those opportunities real. A weak one doesn’t. Without a strong cohort, advanced classes don’t run, clubs fall flat, and motivated students get left behind. |
Anonymous
I don't know how the subject became about bad people. But apparently your definition of bad person is someone who went through the rigors of a W school? Hate to say it but some of the people that graduated from the W schools and/or live in that area are actually contributing to society. And they're likely the ones propping up the county too. And I say this as someone who refuses to live in those areas, as well as some of the Virginia areas mentioned in this thread. Not everyone wants to live in areas like that. But they really are a different class of people, with different standards and go on to different things then people from other areas. Go on and keep encouraging the brain drain of our society and see how much better it makes the area. |
Anonymous
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We used to live in an area with primarily brown and black families. One of our neighbors lived in a townhome similar to the style of the ones in Stone Mill community and at one point had three families, and we counted 18 people living in there.
I was happy in that community and open to the idea of my kids going to school there. But with my spouse having gone to what people on this board calls one of the worse schools in this county, they demanded that we move to an area with a reputable school. What I later saw was that these families were getting free things from the county. While we were busting our butts off to provide similar things for our kids. Specifically I was seeing their kids going off to the bus stop for free preschool, while we were paying a lot of money for preschool. So figured one of the benefits of living in an area with more similar people is that we're all in the same boat and live similar lifestyles. So went on board with moving. We could've moved to one of the richer W school areas but chose not to. What I'm seeing in this back and forth in this thread, is that there are differences between opinions on standards of education. Didn't Jerry Seinfeld talk about how people are condemning people with privilege and how nowadays we are becoming embarassed of things that we should be proud about and proud of things that we should be embarassed about in his graduation speech at Duke? Here's the short clip of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsmL1AImWLo (I don't know what the Rubin Report is and hopefully I didn't link to some right winger channel but wanted to link the short clip of the video) The so called good schools are actually getting stronger in these proposals and it's really just the neighborhoods on the outskirts that are potentially affected. And it's like the neighborhoods in those schools are in a castle surrounded by a moat or up in an ivory tower. I initially had no interest in living in these areas and am not interested in my kids attending ivies or a school like Duke. But if our standards match those of the people living in those neighborhoods, it would make sense that we should consider moving into one of those neighborhoods to be around likeminded people. |
Anonymous
Nonsense Education is a gift pure and simple The best education is worth it period That does not mean Duke education it means the best did your kid. A W school is only a pressure cooker if you make it that way in your home it’s about you the parent. If we look at the country at who sucked down MAGA lies the lower educated Risk schools have more idiots why in the world would anyone want their kids in a school where the families are that dumb? Same goes for indoctrination religious schools maga screams no indoctrination and my freedoms yet they want religious indoctrination in schools and no freedom. Yeah I will rage W school pressure cookers all day long and least they are not idiot hypocrites |
Anonymous
People tend to live in communities where they feel most comfortable, often among others who share similar backgrounds and races. Redistributing students by moving some out and bringing others doesn’t end segregation; it just rearranges where people are. Schools should focus on education and shouldn’t be used as tools for social engineering. |
Anonymous
So they should apply to RM IB or Poolesville magnet program and they will get a strong hs cohort. |
Anonymous
This only works if MCPS keeps these magnet programs. They might replace them with smaller regional ones as they recently proposed, but we won’t really know what those will look like until they announce the change. It seems they want to make a rushed decision for these regional programs to be factored in the capacity planning for the boundary studies. But we alll know MCPS is good at breaking things that work and struggling to build anything better in return. |