Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up
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Anonymous
| I personally am fine with low income housing in my neighborhood and am even fine with voluntary busing of low income kids to low FARMS schools *if that’s what those kids/families want.* |
Anonymous
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But building low income housing is well outside the scope of the boundary study and not something BOE and Taylor can do so it seems like a distraction.
Just like pouring money into low income schools to actually make them better doesn’t seem like a part of the boundary study. |
Anonymous
Most won't be able to do it. Some families will and many adults I've spoken with whose parents did this when they were in school wish their parents hadn't pushed them to do it. And the impact on their zoned schools will be negative. |
Anonymous
I agree that busing kids has negative consequences for all kids that are bused. But clearly it is something BOE is contemplating in order to (I guess?) help the low income kids. Idk if BOE cares about what kids and families actually want (including the low income ones). |
Anonymous
BOE cares about the ability of MCPS to effectively educate kids and not create impossible environments for staff. Concentrating all the low income kids in certain schools typically means those schools have a large percentage of high needs kids and they don't really get much extra staff to address that (zero high schools are Title 1 or Focus schools). Of course parents of all backgrounds don't want long bus rides, why would they, especially if their older kids provide sibling care or extra income from an after school job. |
Anonymous
| And just a reminder that "Option 5" involves the longest travel times for kids and apparently for exclusively FARMS kids. |
Anonymous
No it doesn't. It's shorter travel for many. Including the FARMS kids currently in Garrett Park. |
Anonymous
Where would their "central bus stop" be? |
Anonymous
| (and how many other stops will they need to pick up other kids along the way?) |
Anonymous
| but also, option 5 is really just option 1,2, or 4 with the voluntary busing of lotteried FARMS kids to Whitman. It leaves unanswered the issues between 1,2, and 4. |
Anonymous
Where do you think property values will go up under Option 3? |
Anonymous
Rosemary Hills? DTSS? |
Anonymous
Status quo instead they get routed to Woodward instead of WJ. VM kids get routed to WJ instead of Woodward. Don't be distracted by this bad argument you're making. This is the solution |
Anonymous
I think we are talking about different options |
Anonymous
| What is Option 5? I only see 4 on the MCPS site |