Split articulation (bussing) for the new BCC Middle School?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone at the meeting to hear the discussions? These proposals are very interesting. I find it interesting that they're not even analyzing walkability at this point.

The #1 consolidated proposed criterion for evaluating these options is minimizing distance to school, including time on the bus, walking, and biking.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/BCCMS2_Meeting2Materials.pdf

This is how the boundary study process works:

1. The boundary study committees propose criteria for evaluating the options
2. MCPS presents options
3. The boundary study committees evaluate the options based on those criteria

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone at the meeting to hear the discussions? These proposals are very interesting. I find it interesting that they're not even analyzing walkability at this point.

It seems to me that the options tilt heavily towards walk ability and proximity to school over other criteria previously stressed in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have lots of friends at RCF and RH who mercifully have no idea that so many people are afraid of their children.

They're just happy to not have to go to silver spring schools but deep down they know that one thing isn't quite like the others.

What does this sentence mean?

It means the PP is a bitch. And also, white.

[Anonymous]

Options #1-2 seem to roughly preserve the percentages of ethnicity/FARMS/ESOL (e.g. the categories for which MCPS is providing percentages), while Options #3-6 really start to skew those numbers. Options 2 and 3 do the best at balancing overall enrollment. On the numbers only, seems like #2 could emerge as the top option, followed by #1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Option #5 is North Chevy Chase ES, Rock Creek Forest ES and all of Rosemary Hills ES to B-CC MS #2; Bethesda ES, Chevy Chase ES, Somerset ES and Westbrook ES to Westland Middle School.

I'm going to say right now that Option #5 is not happening.

Really? Option 5 seems like the most natural geographic boundary. Followed by option 6. I would suggest either of those.

[Anonymous]

Can someone clarify for me why, in all the options, They include Rosemary Hills? It only goes through second grade...makes no sense to me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Option #5 is North Chevy Chase ES, Rock Creek Forest ES and all of Rosemary Hills ES to B-CC MS #2; Bethesda ES, Chevy Chase ES, Somerset ES and Westbrook ES to Westland Middle School.

I'm going to say right now that Option #5 is not happening.

Really? Option 5 seems like the most natural geographic boundary. Followed by option 6. I would suggest either of those.

Even if you think that MCPS should do this, MCPS is not going to split the B-CC cluster into

1. a middle school with none of the poor kids in the cluster
2. a middle school with all of the poor kids in the cluster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Really? Option 5 seems like the most natural geographic boundary. Followed by option 6. I would suggest either of those.

One middle school is in the northeast corner of the cluster, and the other middle school is in the southwest corner. Perhaps you could explain to me why splitting the cluster into west and east is more geographically natural than splitting the cluster into north and south?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone at the meeting to hear the discussions? These proposals are very interesting. I find it interesting that they're not even analyzing walkability at this point.

The #1 consolidated proposed criterion for evaluating these options is minimizing distance to school, including time on the bus, walking, and biking.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/BCCMS2_Meeting2Materials.pdf

This is how the boundary study process works:

1. The boundary study committees propose criteria for evaluating the options
2. MCPS presents options
3. The boundary study committees evaluate the options based on those criteria

The criterion are not ranked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone at the meeting to hear the discussions? These proposals are very interesting. I find it interesting that they're not even analyzing walkability at this point.

The #1 consolidated proposed criterion for evaluating these options is minimizing distance to school, including time on the bus, walking, and biking.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/BCCMS2_Meeting2Materials.pdf

This is how the boundary study process works:

1. The boundary study committees propose criteria for evaluating the options
2. MCPS presents options
3. The boundary study committees evaluate the options based on those criteria

The criterion are not ranked.

OK, they're not ranked. It's just the first one on the list of nine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone clarify for me why, in all the options, They include Rosemary Hills? It only goes through second grade...makes no sense to me?

The Rosemary Hills area is itself split into N-CC and Chevy Chase for elementary school. Some scenarios have both staying together for MS and another splits them up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Really? Option 5 seems like the most natural geographic boundary. Followed by option 6. I would suggest either of those.

One middle school is in the northeast corner of the cluster, and the other middle school is in the southwest corner. Perhaps you could explain to me why splitting the cluster into west and east is more geographically natural than splitting the cluster into north and south?

Just eye-balling it, but 5 & 6 look like they have the shortest maximum distance from the furthest house to the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Just eye-balling it, but 5 & 6 look like they have the shortest maximum distance from the furthest house to the school.

But nobody is going to school by crow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Just eye-balling it, but 5 & 6 look like they have the shortest maximum distance from the furthest house to the school.

But nobody is going to school by crow.

Teleportation, then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone clarify for me why, in all the options, They include Rosemary Hills? It only goes through second grade...makes no sense to me?

In the report, they use it as a reference to a geographic boundary -- essentially the easternmost neighborhood in the cluster, just west of the RCF boundary. You can see it more easily in the maps they include in the linked PDF above.