‘W’ schools boundary study?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any changes for the W schools will likely be small like what happened to Northwest in the Seneca Valley study. Minor changes. Rich powerful people have means that the marginally wealthy Upcounty inhabitants don't.

This is the answer. The people who pay the highest taxes in the county will not be the ones implicated by this.

[Anonymous]

Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

Only people Takoma Park could provide this information since they are the seat of government in MoCO.

[Anonymous]

Would they reassign kids who already started high school? My kid will be a Wootton freshman in 2024.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would they reassign kids who already started high school? My kid will be a Wootton freshman in 2024.

Freshman, Sophomores: Yes
Juniors and Seniors: Very unlikely

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would they reassign kids who already started high school? My kid will be a Wootton freshman in 2024.

Currently only rising seniors are grandfathered in on most rezoning I've seen. Some conversation about protecting 9th graders as well because they would have to make the transition to a new school twice in two years. This will all depend on if Takoma Park allows it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would they reassign kids who already started high school? My kid will be a Wootton freshman in 2024.

Currently only rising seniors are grandfathered in on most rezoning I've seen. Some conversation about protecting 9th graders as well because they would have to make the transition to a new school twice in two years. This will all depend on if Takoma Park allows it.

The upcounty boundary study just grandfathered rising juniors as well as rising seniors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would they reassign kids who already started high school? My kid will be a Wootton freshman in 2024.

Currently only rising seniors are grandfathered in on most rezoning I've seen. Some conversation about protecting 9th graders as well because they would have to make the transition to a new school twice in two years. This will all depend on if Takoma Park allows it.

The upcounty boundary study just grandfathered rising juniors as well as rising seniors.

Good to know. I haven't looked at the result of that study yet. The upcounty study thread is 1 zillion pages and I haven't found the time to binge read it yet.

[Anonymous]

Not sure how this thread got derailed, but yes, there is a boundary study underway.

I suggest you make your voice heard. Here are the upcoming community meetings:
https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/districtwide-boundary-analysis-public-meetings/

The past meetings, they did a pretty good job filling them with students compared to homeowners, and students are largely in favor of redistricting for "equity" reasons, ignoring the effects of busing and property values.

As for the W schools, they're gunning for them, especially Whitman which has the highest percentage of white students in of any high school in MoCo. You can bet they want to change that. At the very least, I can see them changing the edge boundaries, like near Westbard (BCC) and Carderock/Avenel (Churchill), and probably a bit in the Bradley Hills/NIH area too (mostly WJ).

WJ's gonna get hit for sure. If you look at their boundaries, there's a carve-out in Kensington so those kids end up at WJ instead of the nearest school (Einstein?). Then we have the Woodward thing as another poster mentioned.

Now is the time to get involved. Go to those meetings, write to your BOE members, etc.

Yesterday for example, the BOE voted on new boundaries for the Seneca Valley area. The vote was 7-1, with Smondrowski voting against the boundary changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how this thread got derailed, but yes, there is a boundary study underway.

I suggest you make your voice heard. Here are the upcoming community meetings:
https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/districtwide-boundary-analysis-public-meetings/

The past meetings, they did a pretty good job filling them with students compared to homeowners, and students are largely in favor of redistricting for "equity" reasons, ignoring the effects of busing and property values.

As for the W schools, they're gunning for them, especially Whitman which has the highest percentage of white students in of any high school in MoCo. You can bet they want to change that. At the very least, I can see them changing the edge boundaries, like near Westbard (BCC) and Carderock/Avenel (Churchill), and probably a bit in the Bradley Hills/NIH area too (mostly WJ).

WJ's gonna get hit for sure. If you look at their boundaries, there's a carve-out in Kensington so those kids end up at WJ instead of the nearest school (Einstein?). Then we have the Woodward thing as another poster mentioned.

Now is the time to get involved. Go to those meetings, write to your BOE members, etc.

Yesterday for example, the BOE voted on new boundaries for the Seneca Valley area. The vote was 7-1, with Smondrowski voting against the boundary changes.

I can't speak to the rest of it. But I live in the area near Westbard, and Westland Middle School, and I can say with absolute certainly that moving the boundary south of Little Falls (so into the Westbrook service area) will *not* make *any* school "less white."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how this thread got derailed, but yes, there is a boundary study underway.

I suggest you make your voice heard. Here are the upcoming community meetings:
https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/districtwide-boundary-analysis-public-meetings/

The past meetings, they did a pretty good job filling them with students compared to homeowners, and students are largely in favor of redistricting for "equity" reasons, ignoring the effects of busing and property values.

As for the W schools, they're gunning for them, especially Whitman which has the highest percentage of white students in of any high school in MoCo. You can bet they want to change that. At the very least, I can see them changing the edge boundaries, like near Westbard (BCC) and Carderock/Avenel (Churchill), and probably a bit in the Bradley Hills/NIH area too (mostly WJ).

WJ's gonna get hit for sure. If you look at their boundaries, there's a carve-out in Kensington so those kids end up at WJ instead of the nearest school (Einstein?). Then we have the Woodward thing as another poster mentioned.

Now is the time to get involved. Go to those meetings, write to your BOE members, etc.

Yesterday for example, the BOE voted on new boundaries for the Seneca Valley area. The vote was 7-1, with Smondrowski voting against the boundary changes.

"They" who?

Students are the ones who actually ride the buses, so I don't know what "effects of busing" you think they're ignoring.

And the students - or at least the ones I heard - are not ignoring property values. They're explicitly addressing property values, specifically that the school district is not a mechanism for maintaining your property values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how this thread got derailed, but yes, there is a boundary study underway.

I suggest you make your voice heard. Here are the upcoming community meetings:
https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/districtwide-boundary-analysis-public-meetings/

The past meetings, they did a pretty good job filling them with students compared to homeowners, and students are largely in favor of redistricting for "equity" reasons, ignoring the effects of busing and property values.

As for the W schools, they're gunning for them, especially Whitman which has the highest percentage of white students in of any high school in MoCo. You can bet they want to change that. At the very least, I can see them changing the edge boundaries, like near Westbard (BCC) and Carderock/Avenel (Churchill), and probably a bit in the Bradley Hills/NIH area too (mostly WJ).

WJ's gonna get hit for sure. If you look at their boundaries, there's a carve-out in Kensington so those kids end up at WJ instead of the nearest school (Einstein?). Then we have the Woodward thing as another poster mentioned.

Now is the time to get involved. Go to those meetings, write to your BOE members, etc.

Yesterday for example, the BOE voted on new boundaries for the Seneca Valley area. The vote was 7-1, with Smondrowski voting against the boundary changes.

I can't speak to the rest of it. But I live in the area near Westbard, and Westland Middle School, and I can say with absolute certainly that moving the boundary south of Little Falls (so into the Westbrook service area) will *not* make *any* school "less white."

Agree with above statement.

Avenel is more wealthy than Carderock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how this thread got derailed, but yes, there is a boundary study underway.

I suggest you make your voice heard. Here are the upcoming community meetings:
https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/districtwide-boundary-analysis-public-meetings/

The past meetings, they did a pretty good job filling them with students compared to homeowners, and students are largely in favor of redistricting for "equity" reasons, ignoring the effects of busing and property values.

As for the W schools, they're gunning for them, especially Whitman which has the highest percentage of white students in of any high school in MoCo. You can bet they want to change that. At the very least, I can see them changing the edge boundaries, like near Westbard (BCC) and Carderock/Avenel (Churchill), and probably a bit in the Bradley Hills/NIH area too (mostly WJ).

WJ's gonna get hit for sure. If you look at their boundaries, there's a carve-out in Kensington so those kids end up at WJ instead of the nearest school (Einstein?). Then we have the Woodward thing as another poster mentioned.

Now is the time to get involved. Go to those meetings, write to your BOE members, etc.

Yesterday for example, the BOE voted on new boundaries for the Seneca Valley area. The vote was 7-1, with Smondrowski voting against the boundary changes.

I can't speak to the rest of it. But I live in the area near Westbard, and Westland Middle School, and I can say with absolute certainly that moving the boundary south of Little Falls (so into the Westbrook service area) will *not* make *any* school "less white."

Sure it will. They'll re-draw the boundaries to include the public housing complex on River Road across from the 7-11 (near Little Falls Parkway). If they want to get even more drastic, they'll include the low-income housing between Bradley Boulevard and Bethesda Ave (behind Bethesda Crab House). I've been near both when the buses let off, and it's an entire busload of kids for each of those stops, at least at elementary level.