3/26 Board of Ed meeting live thread

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they pass Woodward yet?

It was all passed.

Huge win for WJ.

And Whitman.

And Churchill.

And B-CC.

Honestly, is anyone surprised who gets the white glove treatment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the chances of current 5th graders being zoned for two different middle schools and two different high schools due to the coming boundary changes?

None? Your high school assignment is the one that they voted on today. That won’t change again when your 5th grader gets there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When will the regional model go into effect?

Not this fall but the following (Fall 2027).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the chances of current 5th graders being zoned for two different middle schools and two different high schools due to the coming boundary changes?

None? Your high school assignment is the one that they voted on today. That won’t change again when your 5th grader gets there.

Could they once the elementary school boundaries get rezoned?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When will the regional model go into effect?

Not this fall but the following (Fall 2027).

No vote to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the chances of current 5th graders being zoned for two different middle schools and two different high schools due to the coming boundary changes?

None? Your high school assignment is the one that they voted on today. That won’t change again when your 5th grader gets there.

Could they once the elementary school boundaries get rezoned?

How would that impact a current 5th grader, who will be long gone from elementary school by the time this goes into effect?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the chances of current 5th graders being zoned for two different middle schools and two different high schools due to the coming boundary changes?

None? Your high school assignment is the one that they voted on today. That won’t change again when your 5th grader gets there.

It allowed for changes to any secondary school (that's MS and HS) with any disruption from the ES study/closures (or left-over mess from that which they just passed). The wording was "any secondary schools that will be impacted by factors such as non-contiguous boundaries, capacity, and consolidations or closures."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they pass Woodward yet?

It was all passed.

Huge win for WJ.

How is that a win for WJ??? im in this cluster. My 8th grader was accepted into Blair. My younger kid will not have such an opportunity. I was very against this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, which BOE member mentioned racism with a chuckle after Yang’s vote against was applauded. That’s rich after the nonstop tone policing earlier in the meeting.

It was Montoya.

Her claims of racism are rich since she was the loudest voice in favor of closing the only Black-run charter in MCPS: MBLI.

She’s a fraud and a hypocrite. She doesn’t care about Black people. She’s just using them as a talking point to stick it to the people who are against the superintendent’s recommendation.

MBLI was a fraud from the start and supporting it was racist.

[Anonymous]

I don't live in the part of the county affected by the Crown study and don't know the racial dynamics of the Wootton vote, but anyone who voted in a way that allows the regional program model to move forward can also be called racist (Montoya!). We all know which families are most likely to participate in magnet and other special programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, which BOE member mentioned racism with a chuckle after Yang’s vote against was applauded. That’s rich after the nonstop tone policing earlier in the meeting.

It was Montoya.

Her claims of racism are rich since she was the loudest voice in favor of closing the only Black-run charter in MCPS: MBLI.

She’s a fraud and a hypocrite. She doesn’t care about Black people. She’s just using them as a talking point to stick it to the people who are against the superintendent’s recommendation.

MBLI was a fraud from the start and supporting it was racist.

Somehow i dont think montoya and julie are allies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they pass Woodward yet?

It was all passed.

Huge win for WJ.

How is that a win for WJ??? im in this cluster. My 8th grader was accepted into Blair. My younger kid will not have such an opportunity. I was very against this.

Ok

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they pass Woodward yet?

It was all passed.

Huge win for WJ.

How is that a win for WJ??? im in this cluster. My 8th grader was accepted into Blair. My younger kid will not have such an opportunity. I was very against this.

Oh Dear

[Anonymous]

Churchill is only high school in the crown study that ends up over capacity (112%). Not sure how that’s a win for Churchill. A win for the outlying wayside and Potomac families who live closer to crown but didn’t want to move, but not for the rest of Churchill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart apologized to Dan Silva from Magruder and offered to have a long meeting with him.

Why did he get to speak at so many BOE meetings when many of us at other schools didn’t get picked in the lottery?

Stewart, if you’re reading this, please answer my emails!!!!!

I’ve had the same issue with her; she never responded to my emails. You have to find her at an event and talk in person. But she is also very uncomfortable with public speaking and critical questions. I recently saw her at an event where she talked about the boundary study, and you could have thought that she was an MCPS employee rather than an official with oversight.