MCPS Boundary Study Meeting Tonight (12/11) at Julius West @ 7pm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also - everyone who is constantly griping about the BOE not being everywhere all the time.....do you know what they get paid? They are doing their jobs out of service to the community, it damn sure isn't for the money. The hours they put in, the lack of privacy, the lack of respect.....would you want that job?

I don’t expect them to be everywhere all the time- but for something this controversial, then yes there should be BOE representatives at each meeting. Send two members to each or something- that’s not a huge commitment per person.

Frankly, the vague language in the RFP and the consultants proposal that included language about providing new “options” for cluster boundaries is part of the reason there’s so much confusion and misinformation out there.

Specifically which language in the RFP do you consider vague?

[Anonymous]

I was not the case to make students to attend nearby schools in the Clarksburg redistribution. why would anyone believe boe just wants to make small shift and improve school utilization. If nobody is entitled to specific schools, why people are totally fine with being segregated from private schools? Isn’t that the biggest inequality?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was not the case to make students to attend nearby schools in the Clarksburg redistribution. why would anyone believe boe just wants to make small shift and improve school utilization. If nobody is entitled to specific schools, why people are totally fine with being segregated from private schools? Isn’t that the biggest inequality?

"The Clarksburg redistribution"? You mean, where they did a boundary study to reassign students from nearby over-capacity schools to a new high school building?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was not the case to make students to attend nearby schools in the Clarksburg redistribution. why would anyone believe boe just wants to make small shift and improve school utilization. If nobody is entitled to specific schools, why people are totally fine with being segregated from private schools? Isn’t that the biggest inequality?

Sure...ok, let's make private schools public schools to to create more equity...then everything goes to sh!+

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was not the case to make students to attend nearby schools in the Clarksburg redistribution. why would anyone believe boe just wants to make small shift and improve school utilization. If nobody is entitled to specific schools, why people are totally fine with being segregated from private schools? Isn’t that the biggest inequality?

This is exactly what happened in Clarksburg. They were not sent to Bethesda or Silver Spring! They went to the school next door! And your comment about private schools just makes no sense at all so it does not make sense to reply about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was not the case to make students to attend nearby schools in the Clarksburg redistribution. why would anyone believe boe just wants to make small shift and improve school utilization. If nobody is entitled to specific schools, why people are totally fine with being segregated from private schools? Isn’t that the biggest inequality?

This is exactly what happened in Clarksburg. They were not sent to Bethesda or Silver Spring! They went to the school next door! And your comment about private schools just makes no sense at all so it does not make sense to reply about that.

But it was really far away and takes a lot longer to get there with all the traffic. I think school bus rides for some neighborhoods are like 20 min longer now right? That’s a lot for kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was not the case to make students to attend nearby schools in the Clarksburg redistribution. why would anyone believe boe just wants to make small shift and improve school utilization. If nobody is entitled to specific schools, why people are totally fine with being segregated from private schools? Isn’t that the biggest inequality?

This is exactly what happened in Clarksburg. They were not sent to Bethesda or Silver Spring! They went to the school next door! And your comment about private schools just makes no sense at all so it does not make sense to reply about that.

But it was really far away and takes a lot longer to get there with all the traffic. I think school bus rides for some neighborhoods are like 20 min longer now right? That’s a lot for kids.

No, it's not really far away.

Yes, it will take a bit longer.

[Anonymous]

Buses sitting in traffic are a huge pollution issue. That is an issue too. Not just distance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buses sitting in traffic are a huge pollution issue. That is an issue too. Not just distance.

I agree. Let's make it safe for kids to walk to school, so that MCPS doesn't have to bus kids who live in walking distance of their schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Buses sitting in traffic are a huge pollution issue. That is an issue too. Not just distance.

I agree. Let's make it safe for kids to walk to school, so that MCPS doesn't have to bus kids who live in walking distance of their schools.

I'm quite glad that my 14 yr old doesn't have to walk to the HS that is closer to us and instead takes a bus (not to a W school). It's pretty dark outside still at 7:10am when DC leaves the house. And when the snow starts, even worse. The walkpath they would use isn't shoveled in a timely manner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buses sitting in traffic are a huge pollution issue. That is an issue too. Not just distance.

I agree. Let's make it safe for kids to walk to school, so that MCPS doesn't have to bus kids who live in walking distance of their schools.

I'm quite glad that my 14 yr old doesn't have to walk to the HS that is closer to us and instead takes a bus (not to a W school). It's pretty dark outside still at 7:10am when DC leaves the house. And when the snow starts, even worse. The walkpath they would use isn't shoveled in a timely manner.

Seems like it's not buses, per se, that people are opposed to. It's buses that go to schools that people don't want their kids to go to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buses sitting in traffic are a huge pollution issue. That is an issue too. Not just distance.

I agree. Let's make it safe for kids to walk to school, so that MCPS doesn't have to bus kids who live in walking distance of their schools.

I'm quite glad that my 14 yr old doesn't have to walk to the HS that is closer to us and instead takes a bus (not to a W school). It's pretty dark outside still at 7:10am when DC leaves the house. And when the snow starts, even worse. The walkpath they would use isn't shoveled in a timely manner.

Seems like it's not buses, per se, that people are opposed to. It's buses that go to schools that people don't want their kids to go to.

We live near Einstien but get bussed to a higher FARMS school that's further away and love it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000000

I am a Wootton/Cabin John/Cold Spring parent and the misinformation that is being spread about this study from my neighbors/friends is absolutely insane!!!! These are smart, kind, educated people who just cannot seem to grasp the fact that yes every once in awhile (in this case it has been over 20 years) change must happen. Guess what it is not just your kid that may go through this change. The entire community that you love so much will be going with you. Please calm down. The ugliness at that meeting was just completely uncalled for. What are you so afraid of? "Worst" case scenario you will end up at a school that currently borders yours with people from your neighborhood going with you. I just don't get what is so terrible about that????

Property values at neighboring school area may be a lot lower. That’s not really fair to make families lose so much money.

Too bad. That's not MCPS's concern. Schools are overcrowded. Boundaries should've been redrawn years ago.

Of course, as a homeowner, I care about my property value, but I can't expect MCPS to never redraw boundaries when the schools are overcrowded just because *I* might lose out on my property value. That's not MCPS' concern, and I wouldn't expect t he to worry about that. They worry about educating all 160K kids, not my property value.

Glad I am in the Churchill cluster. We will continue to be unscathed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000000

I am a Wootton/Cabin John/Cold Spring parent and the misinformation that is being spread about this study from my neighbors/friends is absolutely insane!!!! These are smart, kind, educated people who just cannot seem to grasp the fact that yes every once in awhile (in this case it has been over 20 years) change must happen. Guess what it is not just your kid that may go through this change. The entire community that you love so much will be going with you. Please calm down. The ugliness at that meeting was just completely uncalled for. What are you so afraid of? "Worst" case scenario you will end up at a school that currently borders yours with people from your neighborhood going with you. I just don't get what is so terrible about that????

Property values at neighboring school area may be a lot lower. That’s not really fair to make families lose so much money.

Too bad. That's not MCPS's concern. Schools are overcrowded. Boundaries should've been redrawn years ago.

Of course, as a homeowner, I care about my property value, but I can't expect MCPS to never redraw boundaries when the schools are overcrowded just because *I* might lose out on my property value. That's not MCPS' concern, and I wouldn't expect t he to worry about that. They worry about educating all 160K kids, not my property value.

Glad I am in the Churchill cluster. We will continue to be unscathed.

Yes, the threat to property values in the Churchill cluster is not from school boundary changes, it's from the fact that ever fewer people want the kind of housing in the kind of location that Potomac has to offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000000

I am a Wootton/Cabin John/Cold Spring parent and the misinformation that is being spread about this study from my neighbors/friends is absolutely insane!!!! These are smart, kind, educated people who just cannot seem to grasp the fact that yes every once in awhile (in this case it has been over 20 years) change must happen. Guess what it is not just your kid that may go through this change. The entire community that you love so much will be going with you. Please calm down. The ugliness at that meeting was just completely uncalled for. What are you so afraid of? "Worst" case scenario you will end up at a school that currently borders yours with people from your neighborhood going with you. I just don't get what is so terrible about that????

Property values at neighboring school area may be a lot lower. That’s not really fair to make families lose so much money.

Too bad. That's not MCPS's concern. Schools are overcrowded. Boundaries should've been redrawn years ago.

Of course, as a homeowner, I care about my property value, but I can't expect MCPS to never redraw boundaries when the schools are overcrowded just because *I* might lose out on my property value. That's not MCPS' concern, and I wouldn't expect t he to worry about that. They worry about educating all 160K kids, not my property value.

Glad I am in the Churchill cluster. We will continue to be unscathed.