Taylor's Feb Rec for Crown Boundary Study

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Anonymous wrote:Why we have to drag racism on every issues we face.

For roughly 45% of the country it’s the only thing they know

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Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

The same way Darnestown got segregated to Northwest despite being so close to QO? And now Poolesville? Spare me.

Yeah I feel for Brown Station but I think this is really more of an issue of real segregation in neighborhoods than of MCPS manufacturing school based segregation. Diamond and Darnestown are both closer to QO than Brown Station is, so it’s certainly a bit odd that Darnestown and Diamond have been districted to Northwest and Brown Station to QO.

And the Clemente thing isn’t about concentrating lower income students - in fact Clemente’s FARMS % is going slightly down now - but is rather because of the new regional programming, where Brown Station needs to attend a region 6 MS and not a region 5 one.

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My brother went to Wootton and now lives in a brown station neighborhood!

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Anonymous wrote:Brown Station parent here. We don’t want to go to Wootton current building. It’s too far! We want to stay in Quince Orchard. We feel we are being moved from QO to lessen FARMS at QO. We don’t understand why the whole Option H kicks us out of our established pyramid. QO is losing 2 high FARMS schools. Does someone in central office has kids at QO?

They are probably doing that because otherwise that proposed region QO is in would have a much higher overall FARMS rate compared to surrounding proposed regions. It makes sense to me.

Another theory is that Ridgeview MS is going to have a utilization of 43% and Lakelands Park MS will have a utilization of 57% after this round of boundary study. Given the geography, the next round of boundary study may include folding Ridgeview into LPMS. There's enough space in LPMS to hold both schools projected enrollment.

I suspect that was a fake post from a Wootton parent not wanting Brown Station at their school. Not a large number of Brown Station parents on dcum lets be honest. Do better.

lecturing people to do better while also making a big ol assumption about Brown Station parents.

Hi fake poster!

Shall we do a community meet up? It would be great for everyone to show their faces. Or drop a line in your testimony or in one of the Whatsapp chats with your best post. Please! We wanna know who’s who here.

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Anonymous wrote:Brown Station parent here. We don’t want to go to Wootton current building. It’s too far! We want to stay in Quince Orchard. We feel we are being moved from QO to lessen FARMS at QO. We don’t understand why the whole Option H kicks us out of our established pyramid. QO is losing 2 high FARMS schools. Does someone in central office has kids at QO?

They are probably doing that because otherwise that proposed region QO is in would have a much higher overall FARMS rate compared to surrounding proposed regions. It makes sense to me.

Another theory is that Ridgeview MS is going to have a utilization of 43% and Lakelands Park MS will have a utilization of 57% after this round of boundary study. Given the geography, the next round of boundary study may include folding Ridgeview into LPMS. There's enough space in LPMS to hold both schools projected enrollment.

I suspect that was a fake post from a Wootton parent not wanting Brown Station at their school. Not a large number of Brown Station parents on dcum lets be honest. Do better.

lecturing people to do better while also making a big ol assumption about Brown Station parents.

Hi fake poster!

Shall we do a community meet up? It would be great for everyone to show their faces. Or drop a line in your testimony or in one of the Whatsapp chats with your best post. Please! We wanna know who’s who here.

I'll bring some emoji signs so we can react in real time

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Anonymous wrote:Brown Station parent here. We don’t want to go to Wootton current building. It’s too far! We want to stay in Quince Orchard. We feel we are being moved from QO to lessen FARMS at QO. We don’t understand why the whole Option H kicks us out of our established pyramid. QO is losing 2 high FARMS schools. Does someone in central office has kids at QO?

They are probably doing that because otherwise that proposed region QO is in would have a much higher overall FARMS rate compared to surrounding proposed regions. It makes sense to me.

Another theory is that Ridgeview MS is going to have a utilization of 43% and Lakelands Park MS will have a utilization of 57% after this round of boundary study. Given the geography, the next round of boundary study may include folding Ridgeview into LPMS. There's enough space in LPMS to hold both schools projected enrollment.

I suspect that was a fake post from a Wootton parent not wanting Brown Station at their school. Not a large number of Brown Station parents on dcum lets be honest. Do better.

lecturing people to do better while also making a big ol assumption about Brown Station parents.

Hi fake poster!

Shall we do a community meet up? It would be great for everyone to show their faces. Or drop a line in your testimony or in one of the Whatsapp chats with your best post. Please! We wanna know who’s who here.

I fear getting beat up by a Wootton parent

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Anonymous wrote:Brown Station parent here. We don’t want to go to Wootton current building. It’s too far! We want to stay in Quince Orchard. We feel we are being moved from QO to lessen FARMS at QO. We don’t understand why the whole Option H kicks us out of our established pyramid. QO is losing 2 high FARMS schools. Does someone in central office has kids at QO?

They are probably doing that because otherwise that proposed region QO is in would have a much higher overall FARMS rate compared to surrounding proposed regions. It makes sense to me.

Another theory is that Ridgeview MS is going to have a utilization of 43% and Lakelands Park MS will have a utilization of 57% after this round of boundary study. Given the geography, the next round of boundary study may include folding Ridgeview into LPMS. There's enough space in LPMS to hold both schools projected enrollment.

I suspect that was a fake post from a Wootton parent not wanting Brown Station at their school. Not a large number of Brown Station parents on dcum lets be honest. Do better.

lecturing people to do better while also making a big ol assumption about Brown Station parents.

Hi fake poster!

Shall we do a community meet up? It would be great for everyone to show their faces. Or drop a line in your testimony or in one of the Whatsapp chats with your best post. Please! We wanna know who’s who here.

Will there be 🤡🤡 there?

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Anonymous wrote:Brown Station parent here. We don’t want to go to Wootton current building. It’s too far! We want to stay in Quince Orchard. We feel we are being moved from QO to lessen FARMS at QO. We don’t understand why the whole Option H kicks us out of our established pyramid. QO is losing 2 high FARMS schools. Does someone in central office has kids at QO?

They are probably doing that because otherwise that proposed region QO is in would have a much higher overall FARMS rate compared to surrounding proposed regions. It makes sense to me.

Another theory is that Ridgeview MS is going to have a utilization of 43% and Lakelands Park MS will have a utilization of 57% after this round of boundary study. Given the geography, the next round of boundary study may include folding Ridgeview into LPMS. There's enough space in LPMS to hold both schools projected enrollment.

I suspect that was a fake post from a Wootton parent not wanting Brown Station at their school. Not a large number of Brown Station parents on dcum lets be honest. Do better.

lecturing people to do better while also making a big ol assumption about Brown Station parents.

Hi fake poster!

Shall we do a community meet up? It would be great for everyone to show their faces. Or drop a line in your testimony or in one of the Whatsapp chats with your best post. Please! We wanna know who’s who here.

I fear getting beat up by a Wootton parent

Based on how that last Wootton meeting went, me too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My brother went to Wootton and now lives in a brown station neighborhood!

Lucky SOB it seems. His kids will come full circle and attend Wootton at CF!

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Anonymous wrote:My brother went to Wootton and now lives in a brown station neighborhood!

Lucky SOB it seems. His kids will come full circle and attend Wootton at CF!

Eh he’s a Wootton drop out - I think he wants his kids at qo

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Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

The same way Darnestown got segregated to Northwest despite being so close to QO? And now Poolesville? Spare me.

Yeah I feel for Brown Station but I think this is really more of an issue of real segregation in neighborhoods than of MCPS manufacturing school based segregation. Diamond and Darnestown are both closer to QO than Brown Station is, so it’s certainly a bit odd that Darnestown and Diamond have been districted to Northwest and Brown Station to QO.

And the Clemente thing isn’t about concentrating lower income students - in fact Clemente’s FARMS % is going slightly down now - but is rather because of the new regional programming, where Brown Station needs to attend a region 6 MS and not a region 5 one.

I’ll give you Darnestown and, of course, housing segregation is at the root of so much of this. But Diamond and Brown Station are literally walking distance from each other and, even though Diamond is slightly closer distance-wise, drive times are nearly identical for at least some of the communities given how Diamond is tucked back in a neighborhood and Brown Station is on a main road. Half of Diamond is at Northwest now and the FARMS rate significantly decreases at QO and significantly increases at Northwest (and not solely due to the Brown Station move). I tend to agree with you that MCPS isn’t deliberately trying to concentrate poverty - I lean more toward thinking this is coming from their fixation on contiguous boundaries and what looks good on a map. But given the move is basically neutral on two of the FAA factors (proximity and utilization) and clear net negative on the other two (demographic balance and stability) this feels like dereliction of duty.

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Anonymous wrote:great thoughtful perspective today from Brow Station ES. Basically Brown Station and Northwest High School are getting screwed by option H. https://moderatelymoco.com/brown-station-community-raises-segregation-concerns-over-mcps-boundary-proposal/ Increased FARMs, getting cut off from special programs, bussing longer distances. MCPS is segregating black and brown kids to Germantown.

The same way Darnestown got segregated to Northwest despite being so close to QO? And now Poolesville? Spare me.

Yeah I feel for Brown Station but I think this is really more of an issue of real segregation in neighborhoods than of MCPS manufacturing school based segregation. Diamond and Darnestown are both closer to QO than Brown Station is, so it’s certainly a bit odd that Darnestown and Diamond have been districted to Northwest and Brown Station to QO.

And the Clemente thing isn’t about concentrating lower income students - in fact Clemente’s FARMS % is going slightly down now - but is rather because of the new regional programming, where Brown Station needs to attend a region 6 MS and not a region 5 one.

I’ll give you Darnestown and, of course, housing segregation is at the root of so much of this. But Diamond and Brown Station are literally walking distance from each other and, even though Diamond is slightly closer distance-wise, drive times are nearly identical for at least some of the communities given how Diamond is tucked back in a neighborhood and Brown Station is on a main road. Half of Diamond is at Northwest now and the FARMS rate significantly decreases at QO and significantly increases at Northwest (and not solely due to the Brown Station move). I tend to agree with you that MCPS isn’t deliberately trying to concentrate poverty - I lean more toward thinking this is coming from their fixation on contiguous boundaries and what looks good on a map. But given the move is basically neutral on two of the FAA factors (proximity and utilization) and clear net negative on the other two (demographic balance and stability) this feels like dereliction of duty.

+1 on the fixation of contiguous boundaries and what looks good on a map

In many cases, it seems they don’t even know the geography that well and haven’t driven or walked it themselves so its reliance on the map. Which is where community input or other ways of gathering “on the ground” perspective is good. Or, that BOE members elected to represent their people would actually know their turf and represent their people…

This said as a pro H person who is disappointed by some of the specifics of ES and MS articulation with H.

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Anonymous wrote:My brother went to Wootton and now lives in a brown station neighborhood!

Lucky SOB it seems. His kids will come full circle and attend Wootton at CF!

Eh he’s a Wootton drop out - I think he wants his kids at qo

What a quitter. Doesn’t belong at Wootton then.

[Anonymous]

Who does everyone think is going to get moved out of Churchill and where will they go when they realize Churchill does actually end up at 112% capacity in Taylor's plan.

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Anonymous wrote:Who does everyone think is going to get moved out of Churchill and where will they go when they realize Churchill does actually end up at 112% capacity in Taylor's plan.

Wayside to Lakewood to Frost to Churchill