Why isn't MCPS redistricting Rachel Carlson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh that makes sense, everyone should just get to pick which schools they want to go to!

Just stating the facts. At the MOST overcrowded elementary school in the county, one that has been consistently overcrowded for more than 10 years, kids are bused in from a few miles away. They drive past 2 other elementary schools once of which is under-capacity by over a 100 students.

If MCPS does a boundary study, and you show up to say that the solution to Rachel Carson's capacity problem is to send the poor kids who currently go to Rachel Carson to a different school -- people might take it the wrong way.

Well at our ES the richest kids come from miles away, past 3 elementary schools and I would like them redistricted. So would they. It doesn't matter who they are, what they are, the amount of $$ they have or don't have. The boundaries for many of these over-capacity schools have got to shrink. They are all over the map because builders keep building and schools are not being built for them.

The fact that the kids furthest away from RC are "poor" by some people's standards here on DCUM should not matter. They pass a school at 70% capacity with the same SES level as RC.

It does matter. Perhaps you think it shouldn't matter, but the fact is that in MCPS it does matter. And I agree with MCPS that it should matter.

I would like to see a source for Dufief being at 70% capacity this year.

[Anonymous]

Projection for this year
326/428 = 76%

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02241.pdf

And why does it matter? Yes, ideally the school would be more diverse it this was a great way to do it. Now its too crowded and does not make sense. Are they busing kids into schools in potomac? Doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Projection for this year
326/428 = 76%

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02241.pdf

And why does it matter? Yes, ideally the school would be more diverse it this was a great way to do it. Now its too crowded and does not make sense. Are they busing kids into schools in potomac? Doubt it.

So enrollment at Dufief this year is about the same as last year.

If MCPS is not busing apartment kids to schools in Potomac (they may or may not be; I don't know), then that is because Potomac has been extremely successful at keeping out people who are not affluent. I wouldn't be proud of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Projection for this year
326/428 = 76%

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02241.pdf

And why does it matter? Yes, ideally the school would be more diverse it this was a great way to do it. Now its too crowded and does not make sense. Are they busing kids into schools in potomac? Doubt it.

So enrollment at Dufief this year is about the same as last year.

If MCPS is not busing apartment kids to schools in Potomac (they may or may not be; I don't know), then that is because Potomac has been extremely successful at keeping out people who are not affluent. I wouldn't be proud of that.

That is such a crock of shit. They aren't successful at it. There are apartments complexes in Cabin John area, Tobytown etc... There is no rich gang trying to remove them in Potomac. Closest kids to the school go to the school. Some schools have better SES's than others. MCPS trying to manipulate the test scores by bussing kids past multiples schools to go to another and overloading some schools is a waste of tax dollars. Kids should go to the school closest to them. Neighborhood schools. If the PP wants it to be so politically correct, then they should ask for busses to come get their kids and send them to Wheaton or Twinbrook. You talk the talk, but would never walk the walk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh that makes sense, everyone should just get to pick which schools they want to go to!

Just stating the facts. At the MOST overcrowded elementary school in the county, one that has been consistently overcrowded for more than 10 years, kids are bused in from a few miles away. They drive past 2 other elementary schools once of which is under-capacity by over a 100 students.

If MCPS does a boundary study, and you show up to say that the solution to Rachel Carson's capacity problem is to send the poor kids who currently go to Rachel Carson to a different school -- people might take it the wrong way.

Well at our ES the richest kids come from miles away, past 3 elementary schools and I would like them redistricted. So would they. It doesn't matter who they are, what they are, the amount of $$ they have or don't have. The boundaries for many of these over-capacity schools have got to shrink. They are all over the map because builders keep building and schools are not being built for them.

The fact that the kids furthest away from RC are "poor" by some people's standards here on DCUM should not matter. They pass a school at 70% capacity with the same SES level as RC.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

That is such a crock of shit. They aren't successful at it. There are apartments complexes in Cabin John area, Tobytown etc... There is no rich gang trying to remove them in Potomac. Closest kids to the school go to the school. Some schools have better SES's than others. MCPS trying to manipulate the test scores by bussing kids past multiples schools to go to another and overloading some schools is a waste of tax dollars. Kids should go to the school closest to them. Neighborhood schools. If the PP wants it to be so politically correct, then they should ask for busses to come get their kids and send them to Wheaton or Twinbrook. You talk the talk, but would never walk the walk.

Nah, I walk the walk. In fact, my kid is a kid who gets bused to a further school. At the last rezoning, people at my kid's school tried to get kids from my neighborhood sent to a different school, for our own good (they said). But thanks anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

That is such a crock of shit. They aren't successful at it. There are apartments complexes in Cabin John area, Tobytown etc... There is no rich gang trying to remove them in Potomac. Closest kids to the school go to the school. Some schools have better SES's than others. MCPS trying to manipulate the test scores by bussing kids past multiples schools to go to another and overloading some schools is a waste of tax dollars. Kids should go to the school closest to them. Neighborhood schools. If the PP wants it to be so politically correct, then they should ask for busses to come get their kids and send them to Wheaton or Twinbrook. You talk the talk, but would never walk the walk.

Nah, I walk the walk. In fact, my kid is a kid who gets bused to a further school. At the last rezoning, people at my kid's school tried to get kids from my neighborhood sent to a different school, for our own good (they said). But thanks anyway.

So name the school then....

[Anonymous]

IMHO, the evidence suggests a lack of competence at the planning division of MCPS. Until parents unite and demand more creative solutions and an entrepreneurial approach rather than a bureaucratic one, nothing will change. Forecasting demand is not a new science...it's just that MCPS does a particularly bad job at it. Shockingly so.