MCPS redistricting, what ist he last word?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BTW, how did QO / Wootton get their own nice little boundary study for Rachel Carson? How did they get away from the Equity Wing? I would think Gaithersburg HS would be thrown in for equity and drama, or perhaps Northwest HS.

These studies are "little" because they're due to construction projects increasing capacity in adjacent or new elementary schools. Very similar to the Forest Knolls study that's now ending or Snowden Farm's last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this include Blair HS for Pine Crest ES etc? Just saw info above?

The high schools weren't part of that study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BTW, how did QO / Wootton get their own nice little boundary study for Rachel Carson? How did they get away from the Equity Wing? I would think Gaithersburg HS would be thrown in for equity and drama, or perhaps Northwest HS.

This boundary study hasn't even started yet. The Board of Education will determine the scope when it does. However, since Rachel Carson is in the Quince Orchard cluster, and Dufief is in the Wootton cluster, I really don't know why the Gaithersburg cluster would be involved.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BTW, how did QO / Wootton get their own nice little boundary study for Rachel Carson? How did they get away from the Equity Wing? I would think Gaithersburg HS would be thrown in for equity and drama, or perhaps Northwest HS.

This boundary study hasn't even started yet. The Board of Education will determine the scope when it does. However, since Rachel Carson is in the Quince Orchard cluster, and Dufief is in the Wootton cluster, I really don't know why the Gaithersburg cluster would be involved.

Because it is not nice to build your entire social justice paradigm on the backs of Cabin Branch, most of whom don't even understand what has hit them or why because these are starter homes owned by a politically unsophisticated population.

And because the W clusters need an alarm to wake up, run strong candidates for the BOE, and vote as a block. It is time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BTW, how did QO / Wootton get their own nice little boundary study for Rachel Carson? How did they get away from the Equity Wing? I would think Gaithersburg HS would be thrown in for equity and drama, or perhaps Northwest HS.

This boundary study hasn't even started yet. The Board of Education will determine the scope when it does. However, since Rachel Carson is in the Quince Orchard cluster, and Dufief is in the Wootton cluster, I really don't know why the Gaithersburg cluster would be involved.

Because it is not nice to build your entire social justice paradigm on the backs of Cabin Branch, most of whom don't even understand what has hit them or why because these are starter homes owned by a politically unsophisticated population.

And because the W clusters need an alarm to wake up, run strong candidates for the BOE, and vote as a block. It is time.

What on earth are you talking about?

Are you familiar with this boundary study?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/cburgvillage2.aspx

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BTW, how did QO / Wootton get their own nice little boundary study for Rachel Carson? How did they get away from the Equity Wing? I would think Gaithersburg HS would be thrown in for equity and drama, or perhaps Northwest HS.

This boundary study hasn't even started yet. The Board of Education will determine the scope when it does. However, since Rachel Carson is in the Quince Orchard cluster, and Dufief is in the Wootton cluster, I really don't know why the Gaithersburg cluster would be involved.

Because it is not nice to build your entire social justice paradigm on the backs of Cabin Branch, most of whom don't even understand what has hit them or why because these are starter homes owned by a politically unsophisticated population.

And because the W clusters need an alarm to wake up, run strong candidates for the BOE, and vote as a block. It is time.

It will be a debate full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The most likely outcome is changes to boundaries at the margins that shuffle some kids around (including perhaps at Walter Johnson, Wooton & Churchill) to address capacity and nominally shift the demographics of the various schools. Traffic in this area is so awful that large scale transportation of students across what are now several different attendance zones just won't be feasible, logistically or financially.

I do expect a repeat of the messy debate that just unfolded in Howard County, but at a larger scale. Better buckle up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the process at? Any final decisions? When if not yet?

The only reassignments currently being considered are for schools included in the two active boundary studies: 1) Clarksburg/Northwest/Seneca Valley cluster HS and MS, and 2) Forest Knolls/Montgomery Knolls/Pine Crest ES.

The countywide boundary analysis is ongoing, and a report is due in June 2020, but no boundaries will be changed in that report. After the report comes out, the board has the option to authorize additional boundary studies, but that is still TBD.

We do know there will be a boundary study likely in 2024 to decide who attends the reopened Woodward HS starting in 2025.

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I think it is likely that the boundary analysis will impact the process used going going forward, including Woodward HS and eventually Crown HS. Personally, I'd like to see the elimination of fixed boundaries associating one neighborhood to one school and have one neighborhood assigned to two or more schools (based on geography or programming) and then have a lottery based on choice, geography, and capacity. That would be a stable process long term, but allow year-to-year flexibility as population in neighborhoods shift.

Let’s not forget what else happens in 2025: Crown HS opens, expanded Northwood reopens, Damascus expansion opens. I’m sure I’m forgetting some projects (Whitman expansion?). That’s not the whole county, but it affects a lot of the county, that’s for sure. We can expect to see boundary changes at that time. I would hope they will use the analysis at that time (otherwise why are we paying for it???)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BTW, how did QO / Wootton get their own nice little boundary study for Rachel Carson? How did they get away from the Equity Wing? I would think Gaithersburg HS would be thrown in for equity and drama, or perhaps Northwest HS.

This boundary study hasn't even started yet. The Board of Education will determine the scope when it does. However, since Rachel Carson is in the Quince Orchard cluster, and Dufief is in the Wootton cluster, I really don't know why the Gaithersburg cluster would be involved.

Because it is not nice to build your entire social justice paradigm on the backs of Cabin Branch, most of whom don't even understand what has hit them or why because these are starter homes owned by a politically unsophisticated population.

And because the W clusters need an alarm to wake up, run strong candidates for the BOE, and vote as a block. It is time.

It will be a debate full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The most likely outcome is changes to boundaries at the margins that shuffle some kids around (including perhaps at Walter Johnson, Wooton & Churchill) to address capacity and nominally shift the demographics of the various schools. Traffic in this area is so awful that large scale transportation of students across what are now several different attendance zones just won't be feasible, logistically or financially.

I do expect a repeat of the messy debate that just unfolded in Howard County, but at a larger scale. Better buckle up.

+1 I don't understand how people could think that wide-scale busing will be implemented considering the monumental cost of busing now and how that would increase. Also, the logistics would be a nightmare considering the same busses have to transport ES, MS and HS kids within a huge county. MCPS will change boundaries at the borders in adjacent areas. Kids will not be bussed across areas. Not feasible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BTW, how did QO / Wootton get their own nice little boundary study for Rachel Carson? How did they get away from the Equity Wing? I would think Gaithersburg HS would be thrown in for equity and drama, or perhaps Northwest HS.

This boundary study hasn't even started yet. The Board of Education will determine the scope when it does. However, since Rachel Carson is in the Quince Orchard cluster, and Dufief is in the Wootton cluster, I really don't know why the Gaithersburg cluster would be involved.

Because it is not nice to build your entire social justice paradigm on the backs of Cabin Branch, most of whom don't even understand what has hit them or why because these are starter homes owned by a politically unsophisticated population.

And because the W clusters need an alarm to wake up, run strong candidates for the BOE, and vote as a block. It is time.

It will be a debate full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The most likely outcome is changes to boundaries at the margins that shuffle some kids around (including perhaps at Walter Johnson, Wooton & Churchill) to address capacity and nominally shift the demographics of the various schools. Traffic in this area is so awful that large scale transportation of students across what are now several different attendance zones just won't be feasible, logistically or financially.

I do expect a repeat of the messy debate that just unfolded in Howard County, but at a larger scale. Better buckle up.

+1 I don't understand how people could think that wide-scale busing will be implemented considering the monumental cost of busing now and how that would increase. Also, the logistics would be a nightmare considering the same busses have to transport ES, MS and HS kids within a huge county. MCPS will change boundaries at the borders in adjacent areas. Kids will not be bussed across areas. Not feasible.

That's exactly what they did in Howard county It's about balancing demographics - not what makes sense geographically. That's why there is such a debate over it. If kids were being moved to closer and less crowded new schools, this wouldn't a big topic with hearings and uproar.

[Anonymous]

Why are you people so down on bussing? Our kids are bussed from a few blocks from Einstein all the way to Walter Johnson and we think it's great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you people so down on bussing? Our kids are bussed from a few blocks from Einstein all the way to Walter Johnson and we think it's great.

Why do you think it's great? You don't prefer them a few blocks away? Or you like that they're on a busy because it's to WJ instead of Einstein?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you people so down on bussing? Our kids are bussed from a few blocks from Einstein all the way to Walter Johnson and we think it's great.

You mean it's great because they are going to WJ? Or you wanted them to be further from home and not be walkers? Confused.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you people so down on bussing? Our kids are bussed from a few blocks from Einstein all the way to Walter Johnson and we think it's great.

Why do you think it's great? You don't prefer them a few blocks away? Or you like that they're on a busy because it's to WJ instead of Einstein?

NP, but this, exactly. People are alllll for busing in this scenario, and then mysteriously it's the Worst Thing Ever when the rich kids might have the opposite commute.

We're in the DCC and could end up at the new Woodward; the prospect of having to send my kids to school with offspring of people like PP does not appeal to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BTW, how did QO / Wootton get their own nice little boundary study for Rachel Carson? How did they get away from the Equity Wing? I would think Gaithersburg HS would be thrown in for equity and drama, or perhaps Northwest HS.

This boundary study hasn't even started yet. The Board of Education will determine the scope when it does. However, since Rachel Carson is in the Quince Orchard cluster, and Dufief is in the Wootton cluster, I really don't know why the Gaithersburg cluster would be involved.

Because it is not nice to build your entire social justice paradigm on the backs of Cabin Branch, most of whom don't even understand what has hit them or why because these are starter homes owned by a politically unsophisticated population.

And because the W clusters need an alarm to wake up, run strong candidates for the BOE, and vote as a block. It is time.

It will be a debate full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The most likely outcome is changes to boundaries at the margins that shuffle some kids around (including perhaps at Walter Johnson, Wooton & Churchill) to address capacity and nominally shift the demographics of the various schools. Traffic in this area is so awful that large scale transportation of students across what are now several different attendance zones just won't be feasible, logistically or financially.

I do expect a repeat of the messy debate that just unfolded in Howard County, but at a larger scale. Better buckle up.

+1 I don't understand how people could think that wide-scale busing will be implemented considering the monumental cost of busing now and how that would increase. Also, the logistics would be a nightmare considering the same busses have to transport ES, MS and HS kids within a huge county. MCPS will change boundaries at the borders in adjacent areas. Kids will not be bussed across areas. Not feasible.

That's exactly what they did in Howard county It's about balancing demographics - not what makes sense geographically. That's why there is such a debate over it. If kids were being moved to closer and less crowded new schools, this wouldn't a big topic with hearings and uproar.

But HoCo is much smaller than MoCo in terms of the logistics of busing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you people so down on bussing? Our kids are bussed from a few blocks from Einstein all the way to Walter Johnson and we think it's great.

"All the way" = 5 miles

Also please stop trolling.