Lots of petitions for regions and boundaries

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS parents - experts at whining.

MCPS: Here’s a brand new shiny school to replace your decaying, mold filled, crumbling building that falls on your kids’ heads.
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

MCPS: We’re going to expand the regional programs so more kids can participate!!
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

MCPS: We were gonna move some of y’all OUT of the Wootton cluster but now, everyone’s staying in! AND you get a new building, which the kids want AND the teachers want!!
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

The regional are a problem for those of us whose regions include far away schools for Stem and are ones we don't want our kids at or we'd move there.

Aren't the current Magnets placed in places most people don't want to live so to entice them to to send their kids to lesser schools to help prop them up? Not like there are many W parents that can't afford to buy cheaper houses. How is what youre saying different than it is now

Partially true. The magnets are based on a “rising tide lifts all boats” theory. The problem is that the vast majority of magnet kids only hang out with their own cohorts. It’s often a school within a school.

When I went to Blair the magnets not only had their own building they had their lunch and class bell to ensure they didn't even pass in the halls. They have rolled some of that back due to backlash but it shows you what the original intent and thoughts of the local population

Magnet students take all ELA, social science, arts and PE class together with local students. They spend half of their days with local students. My DS made new friends there and had a girl friend from local. I don't think there's any supremacy bias in their minds, but more often fall under the scenario that newbies are hard to fit in at high-school age.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS parents - experts at whining.

MCPS: Here’s a brand new shiny school to replace your decaying, mold filled, crumbling building that falls on your kids’ heads.
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

MCPS: We’re going to expand the regional programs so more kids can participate!!
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

MCPS: We were gonna move some of y’all OUT of the Wootton cluster but now, everyone’s staying in! AND you get a new building, which the kids want AND the teachers want!!
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

The regional are a problem for those of us whose regions include far away schools for Stem and are ones we don't want our kids at or we'd move there.

Aren't the current Magnets placed in places most people don't want to live so to entice them to to send their kids to lesser schools to help prop them up? Not like there are many W parents that can't afford to buy cheaper houses. How is what youre saying different than it is now

Blair is in the densest part of the county.

Dense in this case means cheap not desirable

In the DCC we have choice for now which means we can see how desirable each school is. Look at the Superintendent's tables for the boundary study and compare the number of resident students in the boundary to how many are actually enrolled. Blair is very desirable.

Blair is the best of the undesirable Silver Spring, it will be the least popular in its new cluster by a mile esp when their limited non-FARMs kids start feigning interest in what ever programs are at BCC or Whitman when its mostly about the peer group

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS parents - experts at whining.

MCPS: Here’s a brand new shiny school to replace your decaying, mold filled, crumbling building that falls on your kids’ heads.
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

MCPS: We’re going to expand the regional programs so more kids can participate!!
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

MCPS: We were gonna move some of y’all OUT of the Wootton cluster but now, everyone’s staying in! AND you get a new building, which the kids want AND the teachers want!!
MCPS Parents: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

The regional are a problem for those of us whose regions include far away schools for Stem and are ones we don't want our kids at or we'd move there.

Aren't the current Magnets placed in places most people don't want to live so to entice them to to send their kids to lesser schools to help prop them up? Not like there are many W parents that can't afford to buy cheaper houses. How is what youre saying different than it is now

Blair is in the densest part of the county.

Dense in this case means cheap not desirable

In the DCC we have choice for now which means we can see how desirable each school is. Look at the Superintendent's tables for the boundary study and compare the number of resident students in the boundary to how many are actually enrolled. Blair is very desirable.

Blair is the best of the undesirable Silver Spring, it will be the least popular in its new cluster by a mile esp when their limited non-FARMs kids start feigning interest in what ever programs are at BCC or Whitman when its mostly about the peer group

I think a lot of Blair families live there for a reason and have no desire to send their kids to Whitman or BCC. Of course MCPS hasn't bothered to survey anyone, so we have no way of knowing what families actually want.