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Superintendent's Recommendation for Richard Montgomery ES #5 Boundaries
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Anonymous
They should definately move them to CG. |
Anonymous
Why does everyone on this forum wish to dictate where everyone from outside their neighborhood is going without input from the communities affected. Happened to twinbrook and now b8. I live in b8 and have no interest in going to CG nor do any neighbors I spoke to. You people continue to rant and push your agenda without regard to community input. |
Anonymous
Exactly. The suggestion does not even make sense. Why switch over cg3 and b8? |
Anonymous
Do you live in the lower or upper part of B8. I just think proximity wise, upper B8 is closer to CG than Beall. You don't mind being an island in option E? |
Anonymous
| Not trying to speak for B8, but they already attend Beall and aren't walking distance, so I don't really see how sending B5 to a different school has any affect in them, island or not. |
Anonymous
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Rockville Councilmember Mark Pierzchala just sent out an email to those who have contacted him about the Boundary:
November 20, 2017 This email is sent via blind cc: to about 104 email addresses that either sent me (or Rockville Mayor and Council) an email on the RM 5 boundaries, or was cc:d on such an email. I removed MCPS, County, City, and listserve email addresses. I think that you should know where I stand as a Rockville Councilmember. I attended most of the boundary committee meetings and other meetings including the last hearing in front of the Board of Education. I have had time to study the maps and to assess the claims behind each alternative. I have attached my analysis as a pdf file. It is best viewed in full screen mode. Feel free to share it, and this email. All of the Richard Montgomery Cluster, and the City of Rockville, should rally around Alternative A, the original Option 6. By far, this alternative does the best job of aligning Rockville’s neighborhoods with the elementary school catchment areas. Rockville has wonderful neighborhoods, and we need to defend them. Rockville has so many challenges, and we need the neighborhoods to work with each other. A councilmember would not normally step between competing plans put forth by different home-owner or civic associations. But in this case, I have no problem in supporting Alternative A. This is because all other alternatives involve one neighborhood moving other neighborhoods around for their own benefit. I hope this come across clearly in the attached PDF file. All other alternatives move zones from their natural school assignments. I also don’t think that a fixation on one metric, the FARMS rate, should be rewarded. Neither do I think that zones should be yanked out of the heart of their neighborhoods in order to achieve some racial or demographic balance. And I don’t think that a last minute splitting of zones, for the sake of achieving a slightly better FARMS rate at RM5 should be rewarded. This suggestion did not come out of the B5 or B6 zones. Rockville and all its schools are diverse. All RM elementary schools feed into 1 middle school and 1 high school. And the RM cluster already features incredible diversity. For all of this, from my perspective as a Rockville Councilmember, and what I think is best for the City, the elementary schools, and the RM Cluster, I fully support Alternative A as the best alternative, and by a very large margin. Mark Pierzchala Rockville Councilmember |
Anonymous
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Who did Pierzchala email? Only his constituents who had contacted him? No one else???
I was surprised no one from the City testified Thursday night. I know Onley & Feinberg testified a week before, but I thought they would have had a comment regarding the 5 different proposals. |
Anonymous
Closer as the crow flies, but there is no vehicular access from Lincoln Park to Hungerford Rd except for driving south and accessing it near the Metro Station. At that point, you are closer to Beall. |
Anonymous
He is right that a council member should not step in. I wonder if he knows that Alternative E was put forward by the superintendent, not by "one neighborhood moving other neighborhoods around for their own benefit" |
Anonymous
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I haven't realized exactly how BAD these boundary maps are. There are so many key roads that are not labeled, such as the boundaries between the zones.
Would someone tell me the boundary streets for B8, B7, and RP2? And the diving line between B6 n/s? The B5 n/s line looks like Jefferson Street. |
Anonymous
| Right, and the Board received many suggested proposals from the community. They rejected some, while accepting others because they believed they had merit and deserved public feedback. So once the Board adopted Option B, they took ownership of it. It's not neighborhoods trying to impose on others. |
Anonymous
He is looking out for CG3 - He is frequently seen talking to them at meetings. I think he has hidden motives. Option A leaves CG overcrowded. I don't know why he is doing this. Plus he lives in CG. |
Anonymous
Interesting. Someone should post his email publicly. Or ask him why he is advocating for CG to be overcrowded?? |
Anonymous
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B5N/S is divided at Jefferson, yes
B6S is the Rose Hills subdivision and below, leaving the homes on the south side of Montgomery Ave in the same assignment as those on the North side since. |
Anonymous
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Pierzchala lives in CG1 and his wife works at CGES. He has had huge voter support from CG1 and CG3 in the last election. While he may say he supports Alt A in the best interest of Rockville, I'm not convinced he is fully unbiased.
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