Cliff Notes summary of MCPS boundary study fight?

[Anonymous]

And just to add to that - although the four factors were supposed to be equal weight, in practice geography won out ocer slightly better balanced utilization and diversity.

[Anonymous]

It’s interesting to me that anyone believes MCPS will do any more than pay lip service to the ideal of diversity when adjusting boundaries,or at the very least not in a way that forces anyone in the W schools to make any compromises. What are the chances they’ll be assigning any of those well-off children to schools like New Hampshire Estates, where more than 90% of the kids are minorities and on FRL? My bet is one or two neighborhoods around Silver Spring will be forced into some type of diversity gerrymandering and the school board will say the factor of diversity was more important when districting those schools, but when they move on to Bethesda the factors of convenience and walkability will prevail. This exact thing happened in the 90’s and I don’t think the political realities of who holds sway in this county have changed much in the intervening years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS has had recent significant growth, while use of facilities is uneven. Some schools are overcrowded and some underutilized. The district hired a consultant to review all current boundaries with an eye to how they affect overcrowding, diversity, and students’ proximity to their schools. The consultants will not recommend any boundary changes and the county will not make any boundary changes during this initial process.

Parents on DCUM and Facebook groups have spread the rumor that children will be bussed far from home in order to balance out school demographics, and that their home values will suffer as a result. MCPS has specifically responded that they are only looking at schools and clusters adjacent to one another and have no intention of bussing students across the county.

This seems like a fair summary. I'd also mention there are many cases now where students don't attend the geographically closest high-school to their home. There are also some boundaries that resemble a congressional district designed by the RNC. There's a lot of room for improvement and there's no reason to go crazy or fearmonger.

[Anonymous]

Some people in Clarksburg who were at a school with something like 22% FARMS ended up at one with 18% FARMS.

The parents whose kids ended up at the higher FARMS school weren't happy, but to everyone else, this was splitting hairs.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t this Clarksburg and Germantown ... are any other schools affected?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing has been proposed yet. Racist parents in fear that their kid might have a minority kid(read brown kid) of any background started lashing out as if browness is contagious. They are not opposed to only busing their white kids, they are opposed to brownish kids coming to their white school. For example, Westland parents are going nuts thinking that more brown kids will be added to their underused school. They are getting ready to cut off their kids from their wills if they take less than natural platinum blonde date to prom or homecoming.

MCPS is already majority-minority, so maybe it's the non-white parents afraid of the white kids? Whites are only 28.3% of MCPS enrollment. and not even the largest group in MCPS (latinos are 30.8%).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this Clarksburg and Germantown ... are any other schools affected?

Those were redistricted two weeks ago. The current contoversy is about a county-wide redistricting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing has been proposed yet. Racist parents in fear that their kid might have a minority kid(read brown kid) of any background started lashing out as if browness is contagious. They are not opposed to only busing their white kids, they are opposed to brownish kids coming to their white school. For example, Westland parents are going nuts thinking that more brown kids will be added to their underused school. They are getting ready to cut off their kids from their wills if they take less than natural platinum blonde date to prom or homecoming.

MCPS is already majority-minority, so maybe it's the non-white parents afraid of the white kids? Whites are only 28.3% of MCPS enrollment. and not even the largest group in MCPS (latinos are 30.8%).

Ha, ha, ha. I am LOLing so hard at your trolling attempt of reverse racism! The only parents who have any issue with this are parents of W and other white schools. Or did the orderly meeting at White Oak slip your mind? Your post is exactly telling of how bad the segregation is in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

I think the true source of issues are that they are opening two brand new schools that border good/bad HS. Truthfully- no one wants to get reassigned to the bad HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing has been proposed yet. Racist parents in fear that their kid might have a minority kid(read brown kid) of any background started lashing out as if browness is contagious. They are not opposed to only busing their white kids, they are opposed to brownish kids coming to their white school. For example, Westland parents are going nuts thinking that more brown kids will be added to their underused school. They are getting ready to cut off their kids from their wills if they take less than natural platinum blonde date to prom or homecoming.

MCPS is already majority-minority, so maybe it's the non-white parents afraid of the white kids? Whites are only 28.3% of MCPS enrollment. and not even the largest group in MCPS (latinos are 30.8%).

Ha, ha, ha. I am LOLing so hard at your trolling attempt of reverse racism! The only parents who have any issue with this are parents of W and other white schools. Or did the orderly meeting at White Oak slip your mind? Your post is exactly telling of how bad the segregation is in MCPS.

The meeting prior to the White Oak meeting was at Julius West in Rockville. The nearest meeting for W school parents will be at a W school -- at WJ in about 3 weeks.

[Anonymous]

I see the Wootton parents are freaking out so is this the fear of going to the Crown HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone give an overview of why the proposed boundary study is so controversial. Who are the perceived winners and losers? Most of the dcum threads assume a general knowledge of what’s happening and it’s very confusing.

Because most of the boundaries haven't changed since the 1980s, and people don't like change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this Clarksburg and Germantown ... are any other schools affected?

Those were redistricted two weeks ago. The current contoversy is about a county-wide redistricting.

No, it's not, it's about an analysis of boundaries county-wide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is against a boundary change based on geographic reasons. Why would you live in MoCo if you are a racist? Plenty of places to live if you only want to be with your own. What people are annoyed by is putting diversity as the number one priority - which the board did without public comment.

http://northpotomacnews.org/?p=861

Then the Board hires a company that only has done diversity realignments - not boundary studies based on geography.

Then - even though you can buy a house anywhere in the county the extreme liberals say it is segregated (although county does nothing about actually changing this at a housing policy level). So rational folks from all backgrounds are seeing this for what it is - pols in a one party state trying to get a promotion by motivating their base. Nothing more. Finally squishy evidence that having a bright kid sit next to a new immigrant helps the new immigrant at all.

Why indeed? And yet people do. Racists, people with racist beliefs, and people who are bigoted in one way or another.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing has been proposed yet. Racist parents in fear that their kid might have a minority kid(read brown kid) of any background started lashing out as if browness is contagious. They are not opposed to only busing their white kids, they are opposed to brownish kids coming to their white school. For example, Westland parents are going nuts thinking that more brown kids will be added to their underused school. They are getting ready to cut off their kids from their wills if they take less than natural platinum blonde date to prom or homecoming.

MCPS is already majority-minority, so maybe it's the non-white parents afraid of the white kids? Whites are only 28.3% of MCPS enrollment. and not even the largest group in MCPS (latinos are 30.8%).

Ha, ha, ha. I am LOLing so hard at your trolling attempt of reverse racism! The only parents who have any issue with this are parents of W and other white schools. Or did the orderly meeting at White Oak slip your mind? Your post is exactly telling of how bad the segregation is in MCPS.

The meeting prior to the White Oak meeting was at Julius West in Rockville. The nearest meeting for W school parents will be at a W school -- at WJ in about 3 weeks.

Rockville is close to predominantly white school. Very close. You seriously need to ask yourself why integrating schools makes you so mad that you are shaking in fear just at the thought of some brown kids being around your kid.