Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study
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Anonymous
No, I don’t know her. Don’t even know her name, so it can’t be in my mouth to begin with. Don’t care to know it either. Her behavior was absolutely terrible. |
Anonymous
| I think we are gonna get to 200 pages! I guess that’s the plan here, to keep dragging this out to get there. 92 more pages of posts to go. |
Anonymous
+1 Why are we fighting each other? That’s the target right there. Fight the patriarchy, ladies! |
Anonymous
The video will be out soon enough. We will see what actually happened. |
Anonymous
let's roll, you can find them in the facebook comments, with their pictures! |
Anonymous
PUT ME IN, COACH!!! |
Anonymous
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Not to generalize (but totally to generalize), the Anti H arguments I have seen really do seem to have an ethnic divide*: White families seem much more concerned with the move of the location and loss of the community feel of having the school in their backyards while Asian families seem to be more concerned about the potential impact to academics that will come with changing populations.
*OBVIOUSLY, this is a generalization and not true across the board--hence the white guy asking Taylor how he would "make sure" ratings don't slip--or whatever he actually said, the other night. |
Anonymous
| I'm the woman who went to the candidate forum last night and who was the only person when asking a question that was repeatedly shouted at and interrupted throughout my attempt to ask the candidates my question. For every person who spoke, we all quietly and respectfully listened. Once it was my turn to speak, as I tried to explain why many of us parents support the rec and don't want to stay in the building with no money for renovations until the next cycle, multiple people in the audience started screaming and shouting at me, interrupting and telling me to ask my question. I refuse to be silenced and so I kept on talking over the shouting. I asked the candidates about Policy FAA's factor that *requires* that a boundary change strive to *increase* diversity and whether if elected they would follow that requirement even if they had constituents telling them that they don't want to move because of increased diversity. And important preface to that question was me informing them of the fact that I have personally been told to my face on Tuesday night (with witnesses!) and I have seen numerous comments in writing that some people are against the Rec because they don't want to go to school with Crown kids. This is a verifiable fact that has been said to me directly, in person, with witnesses, and in writing with hundreds of witnesses. I never once said any racial group was racist, obviously, and to say otherwise is defamatory and I will not tolerate it. There's a video. Also, one of the candidates previously expressed support and encouragement for the planned lawsuit against the BOE she is running for, which I took the opportunity to call out as disqualifying. After the forum was over, I approached the woman who told the crowd at Tuesday's forum to ask her why she said what she said about MCPS getting approval for options A-G but not H, in light of the facts and the law. We got into a heated exchange and decided to agree to disagree. I was then approached by several people, at different times, who came up to me yelling about Dufief, yelling at me "why did Dufief drag us into this" "just go to Crown" "you're hypocrites." There were a couple of nice people who actually engaged respectfully with me in productive conversations about getting renovations at Wootton and how to improve this process. One woman in particular who is against the Rec was so sweet to me in particular, and asked me about what I had heard. I told her exactly the racist comments I was told on Tuesday, and she told me to ignore those voices. We even talked with one of the candidates who approached me after to thank me for bravely speaking out and calling out racism, and who admonished those who rudely screamed and interrupted me. Many of the candidates thanked me in their answers for bravely calling this to their attention. I have dozens of messages from parents over the past few months decrying the racism they've witnessed, sending me the screenshots of vile comments made about certain demographics and whose stated reason for not wanting to go to Crown is because of the demographics of the Crown kids. I can't begin to explain how hurtful this is to Crown families I've talked with. No one including me is saying ALL people who are against the rec are racist, of course. There are many different reasons people have to be against the rec. I am being an ally and calling out the racist comments I am told directly and see with my own eyes. There are so many issues with this boundary process, and it's unfortunate as a community that all too often when discussing the merits of particular ways to address boundaries, those conversations are hijacked by some individuals to throw in race into the debate. The silence and complicity of not calling out these individuals when they make racist comments is destructive to the community and it undermines the very valid reasons and objections people may have. Let's do better folks. |
Anonymous
| Aren’t homes in Crown far more expensive? |
Anonymous
Now they are with developers banking on Wootton @ Crown. |
Anonymous
Just a note that my memory of the Clarksburg lawsuits/complaints did establish that the diversity FAA policy is one among the four, and doesn’t not have to be given extra weight due to the use of the word “especially.” I wasn’t at the meeting and didn’t see the video, but there has been controversy about that particular FAA policy in the past. |
Anonymous
I agree that it is one among four factors and no one factor has to be given extra weight than others. I was trying to understand whether, as to that factor, BOE candidates would advocate for boundaries that decreased diversity in violation of that factor. One of the frustrating things about this process is that some of the options weigh heavily for certain factors above others and some are nonsensical in increasing utilization in some places and decreasing diversity. |
Anonymous
Hence the Crown families are eager to bring the Wootton families to Crown. The Churchill people don't want to go to Wootton because they see it as a downgrade. Similar to how some Wootton families don't trust that the school will maintain it's same academic standing with the move. Then the Crown/Rosemont island people don't want their kids to go to Gaithersburg HS. So there is a bit of classism going on and it's going on at different levels. With the Wootton families, remember it's not just academic performance but also stability. Where sure the enrollment numbers currently show there's a decline in enrollment. But what happens when enrollment goes back up? Richard Montgomery and Bayard were both opened at over capacity and have portables right? So that should show confidence in the projections from MCPS. So they have empty school building on Wootton Parkway and reopen and some of the previous areas that fed into Wootton would stay at Crown. Those families that have to stay at Crown probably won't be at a bad school. But it won't be the third top school in the state. This is why a lot of Wootton families are questioning the data and input for question H and want more information on it before anything is finalized. But in a lot of ways it seems like MCPS revealed option H at the 11th hour with questionable data. And this is why Wootton families are asking for MCPS to slowdown and show proof behind the data before making irreversible decisions. |
Anonymous
| There are no irreversible decisions. If there's a baby boom or a federal government hiring boom leading to families flocking to Rockville, Wootton can be re-opened. |
Anonymous
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What is the potential FARMS rate at Wootton @ Crown?
Asking as a family in a Woodward zone. |