First hearing on districtwide boundary study is tonight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
UMC DCC families need to brace up for some of their neighborhoods to get rezoned into Kennedy. How else would you get more UMC kids into Kennedy? You aren't going to bus kids from Whitman or Churchill all the way up there past all the other DCC schools.

How about the NEC? Where are the UMC kids going to come from when the poorest schools are in the eastern most corner.

The geography and concentration of poverty in the eastern areas makes this endeavor next to impossible.

Indeed, and the way they address that is by putting in magnet programs there, like the IB. There are four new ones, all concentrated in the eastern part, two right next to each other. But who knows how effective it will be.

John F. Kennedy HS
Springbrook HS
Watkins Mill HS

This certainly has not been working. Kennedy is not attracting UMC kids. It is the least popular school in the DCC selection criteria. The only way to get UMC kids into DCC is with bussing and those kids would need to come from the UMC areas of the DCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
UMC DCC families need to brace up for some of their neighborhoods to get rezoned into Kennedy. How else would you get more UMC kids into Kennedy? You aren't going to bus kids from Whitman or Churchill all the way up there past all the other DCC schools.

How about the NEC? Where are the UMC kids going to come from when the poorest schools are in the eastern most corner.

The geography and concentration of poverty in the eastern areas makes this endeavor next to impossible.

Olney. Wasn't Sherwood originally supposed to be part of the NEC?

I thought Olney was way off somewhere in the middle and not close to the north eastern schools in the NEC.

No. Sherwood was supposed to be part of the NEC.

https://silverchips.mbhs.edu/content/consortiums-divide-18996/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
UMC DCC families need to brace up for some of their neighborhoods to get rezoned into Kennedy. How else would you get more UMC kids into Kennedy? You aren't going to bus kids from Whitman or Churchill all the way up there past all the other DCC schools.

How about the NEC? Where are the UMC kids going to come from when the poorest schools are in the eastern most corner.

The geography and concentration of poverty in the eastern areas makes this endeavor next to impossible.

Indeed, and the way they address that is by putting in magnet programs there, like the IB. There are four new ones, all concentrated in the eastern part, two right next to each other. But who knows how effective it will be.

John F. Kennedy HS
Springbrook HS
Watkins Mill HS

This certainly has not been working. Kennedy is not attracting UMC kids. It is the least popular school in the DCC selection criteria. The only way to get UMC kids into DCC is with bussing and those kids would need to come from the UMC areas of the DCC.

It hasn't happened yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
UMC DCC families need to brace up for some of their neighborhoods to get rezoned into Kennedy. How else would you get more UMC kids into Kennedy? You aren't going to bus kids from Whitman or Churchill all the way up there past all the other DCC schools.

How about the NEC? Where are the UMC kids going to come from when the poorest schools are in the eastern most corner.

The geography and concentration of poverty in the eastern areas makes this endeavor next to impossible.

Indeed, and the way they address that is by putting in magnet programs there, like the IB. There are four new ones, all concentrated in the eastern part, two right next to each other. But who knows how effective it will be.

John F. Kennedy HS
Springbrook HS
Watkins Mill HS

This certainly has not been working. Kennedy is not attracting UMC kids. It is the least popular school in the DCC selection criteria. The only way to get UMC kids into DCC is with bussing and those kids would need to come from the UMC areas of the DCC.

It hasn't happened yet.

Exactly. This is literally the first fall that 8th graders could apply to the new Kennedy IB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMC DCC families need to brace up for some of their neighborhoods to get rezoned into Kennedy. How else would you get more UMC kids into Kennedy? You aren't going to bus kids from Whitman or Churchill all the way up there past all the other DCC schools.

How about the NEC? Where are the UMC kids going to come from when the poorest schools are in the eastern most corner.

The geography and concentration of poverty in the eastern areas makes this endeavor next to impossible.

Indeed, and the way they address that is by putting in magnet programs there, like the IB. There are four new ones, all concentrated in the eastern part, two right next to each other. But who knows how effective it will be.

John F. Kennedy HS
Springbrook HS
Watkins Mill HS

Watkins Mill HS is not in the east county.

I was simply listing the new regional IBs.

[Anonymous]

I'm a bit perplexed that it is just now occurring to UMC families living within the DCC that they probably will get rezoned to a lower performing school too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
UMC DCC families need to brace up for some of their neighborhoods to get rezoned into Kennedy. How else would you get more UMC kids into Kennedy? You aren't going to bus kids from Whitman or Churchill all the way up there past all the other DCC schools.

How about the NEC? Where are the UMC kids going to come from when the poorest schools are in the eastern most corner.

The geography and concentration of poverty in the eastern areas makes this endeavor next to impossible.

Indeed, and the way they address that is by putting in magnet programs there, like the IB. There are four new ones, all concentrated in the eastern part, two right next to each other. But who knows how effective it will be.

John F. Kennedy HS
Springbrook HS
Watkins Mill HS

This certainly has not been working. Kennedy is not attracting UMC kids. It is the least popular school in the DCC selection criteria. The only way to get UMC kids into DCC is with bussing and those kids would need to come from the UMC areas of the DCC.

It hasn't happened yet.

Exactly. This is literally the first fall that 8th graders could apply to the new Kennedy IB.

Per MCPS website:

Kennedy regional serves: BCC, Churchill, Whitman, Walter Johnson, Downcounty Consortium- Blair, Einstein, Northwood, Kennedy, Wheaton

Springbrook: Magruder, Rockville, Sherwood, Northeast Consortium (NEC)- Blake, Paint Branch, Springbrook

Watkins Mill: Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Northwest, Poolesville, Quince Orchard, Seneca Valley, Watkins Mill, Wootton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a bit perplexed that it is just now occurring to UMC families living within the DCC that they probably will get rezoned to a lower performing school too.

Huh? Everyone I talk to seems to be aware of that possibility. Not really a cause for concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
UMC DCC families need to brace up for some of their neighborhoods to get rezoned into Kennedy. How else would you get more UMC kids into Kennedy? You aren't going to bus kids from Whitman or Churchill all the way up there past all the other DCC schools.

How about the NEC? Where are the UMC kids going to come from when the poorest schools are in the eastern most corner.

The geography and concentration of poverty in the eastern areas makes this endeavor next to impossible.


Olney. Wasn't Sherwood originally supposed to be part of the NEC?

I thought Olney was way off somewhere in the middle and not close to the north eastern schools in the NEC.

Nope. And Sherwood and the NEC already share Farquhar MS.

[Anonymous]

Kennedy IB isn't new it has always been open to the DCC kids. What is new is that it is open to several W schools now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy IB isn't new it has always been open to the DCC kids. What is new is that it is open to several W schools now.

I’d say that’s a huge difference. It’s a competitive regional IB like Richard Montgomery now, not a local school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy IB isn't new it has always been open to the DCC kids. What is new is that it is open to several W schools now.

I’d say that’s a huge difference. It’s a competitive regional IB like Richard Montgomery now, not a local school.

RMIB is countywide, not regional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy IB isn't new it has always been open to the DCC kids. What is new is that it is open to several W schools now.

I am sure a lots of WJ, Whitman,and churchill kids who could not get into RMIB or Blair due to cohort effect will choose Kennedy’s new IB regional magnet. I am not sure if kids from BCC would come unless MCPS terminate the IB there. Actually, if MCPS waters down the acadamic programs in WJ, Whitam, Churchill, and BCC, more MC and UMC kids will choose a regional magnet in DCC. This is a way to reach diversity without forced bussing.

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile, in Howard County, the vote to bus kids district by district is happening as we speak. https://hcpsstv.new.swagit.com/events/4336

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, in Howard County, the vote to bus kids district by district is happening as we speak. https://hcpsstv.new.swagit.com/events/4336

The district is HCPSS.