Boundary study (2025 )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FLO Analytics: Let’s make DEI the guiding principle in the boundary study and jeopardize any federal funding. Insane

Oh relax

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boring meeting.
Taylor presents to Board early next year??? That's a faster timeline than Purple Line construction.

Taylor makes his recommendations to the board in February 2026. They vote on them by March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kid will already be in high school (Einstein - home school) when Woodward is scheduled to open, and given the DCC has some choice process, might he be required to change schools?

Typically rising juniors and seniors are allowed to stay at their previous school. Or those already enrolled in special programs not offered at the new school.

This was asked at the meeting. The answer was that it's up to the Board and that typically seniors are allowed to stay in their old school, although in a previous re-drawing of boundaries both juniors and seniors were allowed to stay. But it's up to the Board.

They are compiling FAQ -- there is a link on the boundary study website to ask questions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3CdjxQy6GVsPPMBxLFljgtao_NRWBlD-5GYjgS2Vc1KDp2Q/viewform

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FLO Analytics: Let’s make DEI the guiding principle in the boundary study and jeopardize any federal funding. Insane

Yep. This is so tone deaf, I cannot believe that they are still prioritizing equity over seemingly everything else. MCPS is living in 2020 still and not reality.

Also - so impressive for a 2 hour meeting to restate the same info. They could have done the whole meeting in 20 min.

I can’t believe they’d do split articulation. WTF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s actually impressive how little information has been shared in this meeting.

Intro to their company,.marketing meeting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kid will already be in high school (Einstein - home school) when Woodward is scheduled to open, and given the DCC has some choice process, might he be required to change schools?

Typically rising juniors and seniors are allowed to stay at their previous school. Or those already enrolled in special programs not offered at the new school.

This was asked at the meeting. The answer was that it's up to the Board and that typically seniors are allowed to stay in their old school, although in a previous re-drawing of boundaries both juniors and seniors were allowed to stay. But it's up to the Board.

They are compiling FAQ -- there is a link on the boundary study website to ask questions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3CdjxQy6GVsPPMBxLFljgtao_NRWBlD-5GYjgS2Vc1KDp2Q/viewform

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I was amused that the team doing the actual study is not any bigger than the team hired to “manage” the pubic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FLO Analytics: Let’s make DEI the guiding principle in the boundary study and jeopardize any federal funding. Insane

Yep. This is so tone deaf, I cannot believe that they are still prioritizing equity over seemingly everything else. MCPS is living in 2020 still and not reality.

Also - so impressive for a 2 hour meeting to restate the same info. They could have done the whole meeting in 20 min.

I can’t believe they’d do split articulation. WTF.

I don't see how they can avoid split articulations.

[Anonymous]

Virtual school for all with mandatory in-person socializing few hours a day (health and p.e type classes and a study hall/check-in) is the future

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was amused that the team doing the actual study is not any bigger than the team hired to “manage” the pubic.

Seems like the meeting got quite off topic if there was discussion on how to manage one’s pubic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FLO Analytics: Let’s make DEI the guiding principle in the boundary study and jeopardize any federal funding. Insane

Yep. This is so tone deaf, I cannot believe that they are still prioritizing equity over seemingly everything else. MCPS is living in 2020 still and not reality.

Also - so impressive for a 2 hour meeting to restate the same info. They could have done the whole meeting in 20 min.

I can’t believe they’d do split articulation. WTF.

I don't see how they can avoid split articulations.

Split articulations are awful, and nobody likes them. I don’t understand why they need to start changing the boundaries for all the schools. Can’t they just shift some of ES schools out of WJ to Woodward to relieve overcrowding? Then maybe an ES from Einstein to Woodward? Why the needs to change boundaries for every high school in the study?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was amused that the team doing the actual study is not any bigger than the team hired to “manage” the pubic.

Seems like the meeting got quite off topic if there was discussion on how to manage one’s pubic.

Let's be honest. Manage the public will be a bigger pain than the study itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FLO Analytics: Let’s make DEI the guiding principle in the boundary study and jeopardize any federal funding. Insane

Yep. This is so tone deaf, I cannot believe that they are still prioritizing equity over seemingly everything else. MCPS is living in 2020 still and not reality.

Also - so impressive for a 2 hour meeting to restate the same info. They could have done the whole meeting in 20 min.

I can’t believe they’d do split articulation. WTF.

I don't see how they can avoid split articulations.

Split articulations are awful, and nobody likes them. I don’t understand why they need to start changing the boundaries for all the schools. Can’t they just shift some of ES schools out of WJ to Woodward to relieve overcrowding? Then maybe an ES from Einstein to Woodward? Why the needs to change boundaries for every high school in the study?

Every high school in the study won't necessarily have new boundaries. They're just within the range of options that may be used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FLO Analytics: Let’s make DEI the guiding principle in the boundary study and jeopardize any federal funding. Insane

Yep. This is so tone deaf, I cannot believe that they are still prioritizing equity over seemingly everything else. MCPS is living in 2020 still and not reality.

Also - so impressive for a 2 hour meeting to restate the same info. They could have done the whole meeting in 20 min.

I can’t believe they’d do split articulation. WTF.

I don't see how they can avoid split articulations.

Split articulations are awful, and nobody likes them. I don’t understand why they need to start changing the boundaries for all the schools. Can’t they just shift some of ES schools out of WJ to Woodward to relieve overcrowding? Then maybe an ES from Einstein to Woodward? Why the needs to change boundaries for every high school in the study?

OK, but one ES probably isn't enough to relieve Einstein, and then what about the overcrowding at Wheaton and Blair?

[Anonymous]

If you are just working to relieve overcrowding, you can simply shift elementary schools or redraw a few boundaries. Once you are working towards DEI, you need to get a lot more creative.