Boundary study (2025 )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Boundaries are harder to redraw for ES because their "walking distance" is smaller. You'd have to move an entire ES out of the cluster to make a dent into the HS overcrowding, but then the MS would become over crowded.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In both cases, it seems like school boundaries will get odd, in that there are elementary/middle schools that are very close to both Crown and Woodward that might shift.

They will keep the current boundaries for ES/MS, but the entire ES/MS may get zoned for a different HS.

Wrong. They are looking at MS boundaries AND they will look at split articulation for ES. So your ES won't change. It's entirely possible that ES students will then move on to 2 different MS and 2 different HS depending on where they live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Boundaries are harder to redraw for ES because their "walking distance" is smaller. You'd have to move an entire ES out of the cluster to make a dent into the HS overcrowding, but then the MS would become over crowded.

But you would only have to redirect a small part of several ES to different MS/HS to impact DEI. This is not only about overcrowding. This is about changing the makeup of the population of the schools. They are directly saying this over and over and over. Believe them.

[Anonymous]

Have they done any kind of outreach to understand what constituents actually want? If not, will they?

[Anonymous]

You guys are clueless. This entire process is a dog and pony show. MCPS will do whatever they want, say they spoke to the community, what parents actually want however, is actually irrelevant to their process

[Anonymous]

Splitting an elementary school makes sense for a lot of the zones. For example Potomac and Wayside Elementary have massive boundaries. Part of each should probably go to Churchill and their respective middle schools as done now but a significant portion of each is so much closer to Wootton and Crown. The same is true for some of the elementary schools up in Damascus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Boundaries are harder to redraw for ES because their "walking distance" is smaller. You'd have to move an entire ES out of the cluster to make a dent into the HS overcrowding, but then the MS would become over crowded.

But you would only have to redirect a small part of several ES to different MS/HS to impact DEI. This is not only about overcrowding. This is about changing the makeup of the population of the schools. They are directly saying this over and over and over. Believe them.

Are parents asking for this, or is this just MCPS feeling like they need to do this for optics?

[Anonymous]

I think if the county focuses so much on DEI, it’s a big mistake. If you want to drive more people to vote for Trump like candidates, this is a sure fire way to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if the county focuses so much on DEI, it’s a big mistake. If you want to drive more people to vote for Trump like candidates, this is a sure fire way to do it.

I agree. Did we not learn anything from the last election?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think if the county focuses so much on DEI, it’s a big mistake. If you want to drive more people to vote for Trump like candidates, this is a sure fire way to do it.

I agree. Did we not learn anything from the last election?

I thought they were doing this because new schools are opening and they need to figure out how to best redraw boundaries to fill that school and ease overcrowding at others.

Haven’t heard anyone from MCPS talk about DEI’s role in this process. There’s a policy in place that governs boundaries and that doesn’t say that DEI is the focus either. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

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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.

True. However, it's not as if there aren't wide disparities in projected utilization (lumpy distribution of overcrowded facilities) among the schools in question, and every school is likely to see some or other change. There's been a very long period without a system-wide boundary study to correct this -- they should have that scheduled on a 10-year cycle with smaller interim localized adjustments as capacity changes with new construction/expansion or closure happens -- and the consequences have been terrible for many communities. Given the investment, here, it would be managerial malpractice, and governmental malfeasance, to eschew this opportunity to move towards balance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if the county focuses so much on DEI, it’s a big mistake. If you want to drive more people to vote for Trump like candidates, this is a sure fire way to do it.

You're on the wrong county, sweetheart.
You might consider moving across the river.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if the county focuses so much on DEI, it’s a big mistake. If you want to drive more people to vote for Trump like candidates, this is a sure fire way to do it.

I agree. Did we not learn anything from the last election?

I thought they were doing this because new schools are opening and they need to figure out how to best redraw boundaries to fill that school and ease overcrowding at others.

Haven’t heard anyone from MCPS talk about DEI’s role in this process. There’s a policy in place that governs boundaries and that doesn’t say that DEI is the focus either. What am I missing?

You're not missing anything. They are doing the typical MAGA talking points.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if the county focuses so much on DEI, it’s a big mistake. If you want to drive more people to vote for Trump like candidates, this is a sure fire way to do it.

I agree. Did we not learn anything from the last election?

I thought they were doing this because new schools are opening and they need to figure out how to best redraw boundaries to fill that school and ease overcrowding at others.

Haven’t heard anyone from MCPS talk about DEI’s role in this process. There’s a policy in place that governs boundaries and that doesn’t say that DEI is the focus either. What am I missing?

In the meeting last night they said that the number one guiding principle for making decisions is DEI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if the county focuses so much on DEI, it’s a big mistake. If you want to drive more people to vote for Trump like candidates, this is a sure fire way to do it.

I agree. Did we not learn anything from the last election?

I thought they were doing this because new schools are opening and they need to figure out how to best redraw boundaries to fill that school and ease overcrowding at others.

Haven’t heard anyone from MCPS talk about DEI’s role in this process. There’s a policy in place that governs boundaries and that doesn’t say that DEI is the focus either. What am I missing?

In the meeting last night they said that the number one guiding principle for making decisions is DEI.

What I'm asking is the why - has community input suggested this should be the number one priority? And if not, should we be lobbying now for more community input?