Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

[Anonymous]

If parents feel public schools aren't meeting their needs, many will leave for private options or other districts. This exodus will shrink your tax base, as property values drop and fewer residents stay. Less tax revenue means less funding for those same schools, creating a downward spiral. Be careful what you wish for—dismissing concerns could cost you more than you think.

Please stop threatening everyone with “many will leave”. Yes, some will leave and many will stay!

[Anonymous]

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Please stop threatening everyone with “many will leave”. Yes, some will leave and many will stay!

+1 plenty of UMC families send their kids to DCC schools, and not just the magnet programs. Their kids go on to college and successful careers. UMC families will continue to do this even if they complain about it.

What is more important for protecting the tax base is stopping grade inflation, enforcing attendance and addressing behavior issues in all schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly if these schools are not good enough for your precious snowflakes please for f—k’s sake go to a private exclusive school! What you don’t seem to understand is that this is a PUBLIC school system. Just because you bought in an area thinking the schools are one way you are not entitled at all to decide who goes to school where. There is a simple solution - LEAVE!

If parents feel public schools aren't meeting their needs, many will leave for private options or other districts. This exodus will shrink your tax base, as property values drop and fewer residents stay. Less tax revenue means less funding for those same schools, creating a downward spiral. Be careful what you wish for—dismissing concerns could cost you more than you think.

It’s also that the social engineering of busing does not do what progressive think it will do. Try to help poor kids, for crying out loud, versus thinking that gleefully punishing the rich accomplishes the goal.

How do you think we should help the poor kids?

Improving their schools. Offering the classes they demand. Not having them think that they can only get a good education by shipping them to ‘white’ schools. Please. The ideas have been around for generations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Please stop threatening everyone with “many will leave”. Yes, some will leave and many will stay!

+1 plenty of UMC families send their kids to DCC schools, and not just the magnet programs. Their kids go on to college and successful careers. UMC families will continue to do this even if they complain about it.

What is more important for protecting the tax base is stopping grade inflation, enforcing attendance and addressing behavior issues in all schools.

Do you think people are leaving Whitman bc of grade inflation or behavior issues. Lol.

[Anonymous]

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If parents feel public schools aren't meeting their needs, many will leave for private options or other districts. This exodus will shrink your tax base, as property values drop and fewer residents stay. Less tax revenue means less funding for those same schools, creating a downward spiral. Be careful what you wish for—dismissing concerns could cost you more than you think.

Please stop threatening everyone with “many will leave”. Yes, some will leave and many will stay!

Historically accurate that those that leave change the school district permanently. And that’s only with busing in poor kids to higher income neighborhoods. Not the reverse busing proposed in option 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly if these schools are not good enough for your precious snowflakes please for f—k’s sake go to a private exclusive school! What you don’t seem to understand is that this is a PUBLIC school system. Just because you bought in an area thinking the schools are one way you are not entitled at all to decide who goes to school where. There is a simple solution - LEAVE!

If option 3 is selected, a lot of people will. And I don't think MCPS wants that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly if these schools are not good enough for your precious snowflakes please for f—k’s sake go to a private exclusive school! What you don’t seem to understand is that this is a PUBLIC school system. Just because you bought in an area thinking the schools are one way you are not entitled at all to decide who goes to school where. There is a simple solution - LEAVE!

If option 3 is selected, a lot of people will. And I don't think MCPS wants that.

McPS can be wacky leftists all they want. They still don’t have the money to support option 3.

Also, way to get people to leave the Democratic Party and make a create a progressive boogeyman, MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is not the right county for you. Check out Florida. There are a lot of FARMS families here and Moco welcomes them with open arms. The county is diverse and there are fewer white people. Like I said, go elsewhere!

Yes. Sanctuary State. Look where that got us. Lucky us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly if these schools are not good enough for your precious snowflakes please for f—k’s sake go to a private exclusive school! What you don’t seem to understand is that this is a PUBLIC school system. Just because you bought in an area thinking the schools are one way you are not entitled at all to decide who goes to school where. There is a simple solution - LEAVE!

Yes that's up to Flo. Elected officials listening to constituents? That's silly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The saddest thing about this process is that DCC students will be hearing over and over again that their schools are bad and they don't have high performing cohorts, regardless of the reality. Think about the message you send in public forums like this one before you post/speak.

I appreciate this comment as a DCC parent. It’s also wild to see people lose their minds over getting rezoned to Blair. We’re already zoned for Blair, and so many of our nearby neighbors wish they were zoned for Blair.

(I understand not wanting to be bused far away, but let’s not pretend that was the only way this came up negatively among west county folks.)

That has more to do with the opinions of Northwood or Einstein, Blair is the most desirable of the crappy schools. Everyone else in the county paid a premium to avoid it or is in the other conshitium

Yea, Blair is crappy too. Why are the magnets over there? Because they just bus high achieving white and Asian Americans into that Blair magnet and brag about the school as a whole. The magnet is prob like a Whitman but gen pop... Yikes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly if these schools are not good enough for your precious snowflakes please for f—k’s sake go to a private exclusive school! What you don’t seem to understand is that this is a PUBLIC school system. Just because you bought in an area thinking the schools are one way you are not entitled at all to decide who goes to school where. There is a simple solution - LEAVE!

If parents feel public schools aren't meeting their needs, many will leave for private options or other districts. This exodus will shrink your tax base, as property values drop and fewer residents stay. Less tax revenue means less funding for those same schools, creating a downward spiral. Be careful what you wish for—dismissing concerns could cost you more than you think.

It’s also that the social engineering of busing does not do what progressive think it will do. Try to help poor kids, for crying out loud, versus thinking that gleefully punishing the rich accomplishes the goal.

How do you think we should help the poor kids?

Improving their schools. Offering the classes they demand. Not having them think that they can only get a good education by shipping them to ‘white’ schools. Please. The ideas have been around for generations.

So, our white kids at these schools….we don’t belong there or with your kids so where should we go?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Please stop threatening everyone with “many will leave”. Yes, some will leave and many will stay!

+1 plenty of UMC families send their kids to DCC schools, and not just the magnet programs. Their kids go on to college and successful careers. UMC families will continue to do this even if they complain about it.

What is more important for protecting the tax base is stopping grade inflation, enforcing attendance and addressing behavior issues in all schools.

Not seeing grade inflation. If you are, that’s your school only.

[Anonymous]

What is our plan of action besides the survey to let BOE and County Council know these are all crap options. None of them solve capacity issues and they create more problems for kids in certain areas, especially current 4th graders that will get shuffled around. MCPS is also rushing through the program study with one sad survey and no discussion with parents and students about what they actually want.

I see tomorrow’s BOE meeting has been moved to the middle of the day, so many working parents can’t go. My child, a current 4th graders, is ready to rally with posters and their peers on this issue. They watched their older peers rally after losing Title 1 status and experience the fallout in the classroom daily from that devestation.

[Anonymous]

Garrett Park and Tilden will get $300k cheaper soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Ah the old “the people on the poor side of town are really the rich ones and they chose not to move there sour grapes argument”.

Sure some of the nicest homes in the DCC stretch into Whitman starter home prices but it would take quite a bit of humility to go from the richest person on a block to the poorest which I’m guessing the type of person who feels the need to respond on anonymous forum and establish they aren’t poor doesn’t possess.”

Chef’s kiss! Preach.

You are acting as if Bannockburn and Carderock aren’t neighborhoods full of a bunch of poor boomer feds sitting on equity and people who live in houses that look like they belong in Glen Burnie or Dundalk. Most of the people in the mega expensive houses in Whitman don’t send their kids to public school. If you care about Whitman and your property values, you’re probably a house poor peasant. Do you see the parents of kids at Bullis, Georgetown Prep, and Sidwell screaming about their property values or crying about school boundaries? No, because they’re actually rich and it is just collateral damage.