Elementary school boundary studies

[Anonymous]

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That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

Well, it is. Sorry that you can't handle that fact.

[Anonymous]

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That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

Well, it is. Sorry that you can't handle that fact.

No, it's not. Look at a map. In addition, now that the boundary change has actually happened, everyone affected by it seems to be handling it just fine, except for a few random anonymous posters on DCUM who can't seem to accept reality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

Well, it is. Sorry that you can't handle that fact.

No, it's not. Look at a map. In addition, now that the boundary change has actually happened, everyone affected by it seems to be handling it just fine, except for a few random anonymous posters on DCUM who can't seem to accept reality.

Um no, you don't know everyone. Ask the kids who get on 270 every day. I did and they don't like it.

[Anonymous]

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That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

Well, it is. Sorry that you can't handle that fact.

No, it's not. Look at a map. In addition, now that the boundary change has actually happened, everyone affected by it seems to be handling it just fine, except for a few random anonymous posters on DCUM who can't seem to accept reality.

Um no, you don't know everyone. Ask the kids who get on 270 every day. I did and they don't like it.

I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Is it: the Northwest-Clarksburg-Seneca Valley boundary changes are bad, and you know this because you talked to some kids who ride a school bus that goes on I270, and they don't like that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From where? For what reason?

Demographic reasons potentially. It's not beyond the realms of possibility. Clarksburg kids go to Germantown schools now and Germantown kids go to Clarksburg schools. If the BOE sees that putting all Cabin Branch kids in the new school isn't going to achieve their goal of enhancing diversity, they will select an option that will, and that could mean bringing in kids from other areas.

This. And demographic reasons = busing.

The Clarksburg area is pretty diverse so I don’t think its going to be too much of a problem.

That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

This. Montgomery County is crazy and as much as they like to state the importance of diversity, they would never do what they did to Clarksburg to a W school which in my opinion could use a little more diversity. The board is simply too scared to scare off the White people of Bethesda and could care less about the minorities at Clarksburg.

I hope you're right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

Well, it is. Sorry that you can't handle that fact.

No, it's not. Look at a map. In addition, now that the boundary change has actually happened, everyone affected by it seems to be handling it just fine, except for a few random anonymous posters on DCUM who can't seem to accept reality.

A few random posters on DCUM and a group of parents who filed a lawsuit due to their kids being bused.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

Well, it is. Sorry that you can't handle that fact.

No, it's not. Look at a map. In addition, now that the boundary change has actually happened, everyone affected by it seems to be handling it just fine, except for a few random anonymous posters on DCUM who can't seem to accept reality.

A few random posters on DCUM and a group of parents who filed a lawsuit due to their kids being bused.

That small group of parents, representing students who were ALREADY being bused, filed their lawsuit BEFORE the boundary changes went into effect. Also, they lost the lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

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That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

Well, it is. Sorry that you can't handle that fact.

No, it's not. Look at a map. In addition, now that the boundary change has actually happened, everyone affected by it seems to be handling it just fine, except for a few random anonymous posters on DCUM who can't seem to accept reality.

A few random posters on DCUM and a group of parents who filed a lawsuit due to their kids being bused.

That small group of parents, representing students who were ALREADY being bused, filed their lawsuit BEFORE the boundary changes went into effect. Also, they lost the lawsuit.

They didn't lost the lawsuit as much as they were simply outspent on it with taxpayer money....can't fight city hall and such. And what does the timing matter? They saw the options that were presented based on a diversity-first boundary policy that was revised in a most underhanded way. And many of those options (including the one that was chosen) bused many of their kids far from home.

[Anonymous]

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They didn't lost the lawsuit as much as they were simply outspent on it with taxpayer money....can't fight city hall and such. And what does the timing matter? They saw the options that were presented based on a diversity-first boundary policy that was revised in a most underhanded way. And many of those options (including the one that was chosen) bused many of their kids far from home.

They lost the lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

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That was the main complaint of the many Clarksburg families whose kids were bused a couple years ago. Why did MCPS feel the need to send so many kids to schools so far from home when their neighborhoods and schools already looked like the UN? The answer is the diversity-first boundary policy and the ideology behind it. During the discussions in which the policy was changed, one member said the ideal mix of students was 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Hispanic. And school not meeting that ideal mix will be subjected to crazy rezoning.

"So far from home."

Enough with the alternative history.

Well, it is. Sorry that you can't handle that fact.

No, it's not. Look at a map. In addition, now that the boundary change has actually happened, everyone affected by it seems to be handling it just fine, except for a few random anonymous posters on DCUM who can't seem to accept reality.

A few random posters on DCUM and a group of parents who filed a lawsuit due to their kids being bused.

That small group of parents, representing students who were ALREADY being bused, filed their lawsuit BEFORE the boundary changes went into effect. Also, they lost the lawsuit.

They didn't lost the lawsuit as much as they were simply outspent on it with taxpayer money....can't fight city hall and such. And what does the timing matter? They saw the options that were presented based on a diversity-first boundary policy that was revised in a most underhanded way. And many of those options (including the one that was chosen) bused many of their kids far from home.

The way that area is laid out, and schools are distributed, SOMEONE was always going to have a bus ride. If those folks wanted walkable schools, there are a lot of them in East County, but they chose to live in the countryside/exurbia and that means riding the bus.

For what it is worth, the boundary study did produced at least one option that would have elicited more diversity, and it was not chosen. So much for the "Diversity First" policy.

[Anonymous]

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The way that area is laid out, and schools are distributed, SOMEONE was always going to have a bus ride. If those folks wanted walkable schools, there are a lot of them in East County, but they chose to live in the countryside/exurbia and that means riding the bus.

For what it is worth, the boundary study did produced at least one option that would have elicited more diversity, and it was not chosen. So much for the "Diversity First" policy.

Plus they already had a bus ride.

It's actually possible to live in Clarksburg and be a walker for the entire time in MCPS: Snowden Farm ES, Hallie Wells ES, Clarksburg HS. But if you live in Cabin Branch, your children are going to get bused at least to middle school and high school, no matter what middle school and high school you're assigned to.

[Anonymous]

^^^Hallie Wells MS, obviously!

[Anonymous]

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The way that area is laid out, and schools are distributed, SOMEONE was always going to have a bus ride. If those folks wanted walkable schools, there are a lot of them in East County, but they chose to live in the countryside/exurbia and that means riding the bus.

For what it is worth, the boundary study did produced at least one option that would have elicited more diversity, and it was not chosen. So much for the "Diversity First" policy.

Plus they already had a bus ride.

It's actually possible to live in Clarksburg and be a walker for the entire time in MCPS: Snowden Farm ES, Hallie Wells ES, Clarksburg HS. But if you live in Cabin Branch, your children are going to get bused at least to middle school and high school, no matter what middle school and high school you're assigned to.

Ah, yes. The "they're already on a bus" argument. One BOE member said about busing "once kids are already on a bus, what difference does it make how far that bus goes?" This shows just how tone deaf the diversity-obsessed members of the BOE are about race-balancing the schools at the expense of proximity. 90+ percent of the county values proximity over all the other factors.

[Anonymous]

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The way that area is laid out, and schools are distributed, SOMEONE was always going to have a bus ride. If those folks wanted walkable schools, there are a lot of them in East County, but they chose to live in the countryside/exurbia and that means riding the bus.

For what it is worth, the boundary study did produced at least one option that would have elicited more diversity, and it was not chosen. So much for the "Diversity First" policy.

Plus they already had a bus ride.

It's actually possible to live in Clarksburg and be a walker for the entire time in MCPS: Snowden Farm ES, Hallie Wells ES, Clarksburg HS. But if you live in Cabin Branch, your children are going to get bused at least to middle school and high school, no matter what middle school and high school you're assigned to.

Ah, yes. The "they're already on a bus" argument. One BOE member said about busing "once kids are already on a bus, what difference does it make how far that bus goes?" This shows just how tone deaf the diversity-obsessed members of the BOE are about race-balancing the schools at the expense of proximity. 90+ percent of the county values proximity over all the other factors.

Yep. You know why? BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY ON A BUS. If you think school bus rides are damaging to kids, then you should work on making school zones more walkable.