And also…parents with disposable income to donate to these clubs, fundraisers, etc. |
But no don't be shallow it's because the White kids are the best kids of course ![]() |
I’m actually thrilled I don’t live near any of you. You people are disgusting and deserve each other. I have the means to live in the W cluster and thought about moving there but glad I did not. You want to keep your schools white and wealthy then go private. This is how segregation started years ago. |
You need funding and admin support. Fundraising also helps. Our booster clubs and pta do the absolute minimum and I know I’ve tried and allowed to help with some stuff but not others. Some of it is the parents too. |
I ml. |
Many wealthy school PTSA’s have foundations as well, funded by family contributions. Schools with less wealth certainly don’t have those and barely have PTSA’s. Some high schools have long-standing booster clubs with a lot of support. Others do not. |
But we are coming to YOUR school under option 3, which is what you are advocating for. I’ll be looking forward to seeing you at PTA! |
Yes the PTA variability is wild to me and I'm sure I don't even know the half of it. We were at a Title I elementary school and the PTA was very small, very low budget. We moved and are at a nearby ES (still downcounty) and the PTA is huge with a lot of participation and great fundraising. Relatedly, I'm still sorry this boundary study did not include elementary schools. |
They are doing it to get feedback. Floating ideas. Throwing things against the wall to see what sticks. And to gather/select quotes via very controlled communications mechanisms. This superficial activity will result in word clouds that will get used at public meetings to justify whatever they eventually choose/discount other options that might be considered but that they just don't like. |
Decade-long proposition, there, to build another school. And one that was given cursory/unimaginative review close to a decade back so that they could say they considered it before discarding it in favor of building Woodward. Too late, now, to be a solution for this boundary study, but probably not a bad idea for the future, what with the County Council and Montgomery Planning pushing for more and more density. There's some magical thinking going on there that because there currently is extra capacity in MCPS overall, relief of DCC overcrowding is a trivial matter. |
Woodward is desperately needed for mid county but downcounty needs another school too. |
But the idea they liked was to relieve DCC overcrowding indirectly through a criteria-/application-based magnet program, only having to deal with a few select kids from the hoi polloi motivated enough to get into the magnet. Relocating Blair SMCS was the dream. |
Our schools are MCPS schools. Go move to Jersey if you want town-based school systems. Systematically setting things up to be in-person one place in MCPS and virtual another is inequitable. |
Let me introduce you to. WJ & Woodward... |
Can I be on Team Hoi Polloi? Why'd MCPS move Blair from Takoma if a school is needed in Takoma now? Probably because MCPS sucks at projecting population growth. Whatever you hear, I expect we will be moving to costly boundary studies every few years. MCPS also seems to like asking for feedback, but then ignoring that feedback (the 2019 boundary effort, covid lockdowns, LGBT books, renaming schools like Macgruder). When it doesnt like the feedback, it does whatever it wants. |