Forest Knolls/Montgomery Knolls/Pine Crest boundary study

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have an educated guess about what the superintendent's recommendation will be? Option 3 seems to check the most boxes, but who knows.

I agree, Option 3 seems like what will be recommended, but I think for the ESs only, leaving middle schools unchanged.

I hope so. Really not happy at the prospect of child having to get used to a new middle school in 7th grade.

+1. Got an email from MCPS today saying "The superintendent is scheduled to release his recommendation on this boundary study in mid-October."

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Anonymous wrote:No clue what they're going to do with the ES assignments, but I don't see how they could change the MS assignments. Every option overutilizes Eastern while leaving SSIMS significantly underutilized.

Yup. This was discussed during several of the meetings. No good reason to move anyone from SSIMS to Eastern. But they were asked to develop the options showing both ES and MS reassignments. Hope Jack Smith recommends that the MS assignments stay as is.

FWIW, as far as I know there is no split articulation in the DCC. MCPS likes to keep kids together.

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Anonymous wrote:No clue what they're going to do with the ES assignments, but I don't see how they could change the MS assignments. Every option overutilizes Eastern while leaving SSIMS significantly underutilized.

Yup. This was discussed during several of the meetings. No good reason to move anyone from SSIMS to Eastern. But they were asked to develop the options showing both ES and MS reassignments. Hope Jack Smith recommends that the MS assignments stay as is.

FWIW, as far as I know there is no split articulation in the DCC. MCPS likes to keep kids together.

They may like to, but they can't in this case. All of the options in this study include split articulation. Either Pine Crest will articulate to both Eastern and SSIMS, or Eastern will articulate to both Blair and Northwood.

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And yes, there is split articulation in the DCC already. SSIMS to both Northwood and Blair, and Sligo to both Northwood and Einstein.

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Anonymous wrote:And yes, there is split articulation in the DCC already. SSIMS to both Northwood and Blair, and Sligo to both Northwood and Einstein.

And Lee to Northwood and Kennedy. And Parkland to Wheaton and Kennedy. They say they don't like split articulation, but it happens a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:And yes, there is split articulation in the DCC already. SSIMS to both Northwood and Blair, and Sligo to both Northwood and Einstein.

Just curious, which neighborhoods are zoned for SSIMS and Blair?

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Anonymous wrote:And yes, there is split articulation in the DCC already. SSIMS to both Northwood and Blair, and Sligo to both Northwood and Einstein.

Just curious, which neighborhoods are zoned for SSIMS and Blair?

Parts of Takoma Park and Silver Spring zoned for Rolling Terrace.

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Anonymous wrote:And yes, there is split articulation in the DCC already. SSIMS to both Northwood and Blair, and Sligo to both Northwood and Einstein.

Just curious, which neighborhoods are zoned for SSIMS and Blair?

Parts of Takoma Park and Silver Spring zoned for Rolling Terrace.

And also the southwestern-most part of the Sligo Creek ES zone in downtown Silver Spring:

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/SilverSpringInternationalMS.pdf

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The board has scheduled the boundary study hearing for Thurs., Nov. 7th at 6:00 pm.

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Superintendent's recommendation is up: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/Knolls_SupplementB.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent's recommendation is up: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/Knolls_SupplementB.pdf

That is a really confusing document regarding the MS issue because it says the recommendation is for MS articulation to “remain the same” for FKES and PCES. So does that mean that the kids moving from FKES to PCES will articulate with Pine Crest as a whole (be re-assigned for MS too) or that the current assignments will be maintained? And what about high school? If I lived in the zones to be moved I’d be totally confused.

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent's recommendation is up: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/Knolls_SupplementB.pdf

That is a really confusing document regarding the MS issue because it says the recommendation is for MS articulation to “remain the same” for FKES and PCES. So does that mean that the kids moving from FKES to PCES will articulate with Pine Crest as a whole (be re-assigned for MS too) or that the current assignments will be maintained? And what about high school? If I lived in the zones to be moved I’d be totally confused.

Agreed. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially when you scroll down to the charts near the end of the document. And I work in education policy!

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent's recommendation is up: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/Knolls_SupplementB.pdf

That is a really confusing document regarding the MS issue because it says the recommendation is for MS articulation to “remain the same” for FKES and PCES. So does that mean that the kids moving from FKES to PCES will articulate with Pine Crest as a whole (be re-assigned for MS too) or that the current assignments will be maintained? And what about high school? If I lived in the zones to be moved I’d be totally confused.

HS was never part of this study, so those zones are remaining the same (for now). Good question about the MS issue, but since he didn't select any of the MS options, I think whichever MS you're zoned for now remains the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent's recommendation is up: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/Knolls_SupplementB.pdf

That is a really confusing document regarding the MS issue because it says the recommendation is for MS articulation to “remain the same” for FKES and PCES. So does that mean that the kids moving from FKES to PCES will articulate with Pine Crest as a whole (be re-assigned for MS too) or that the current assignments will be maintained? And what about high school? If I lived in the zones to be moved I’d be totally confused.

HS was never part of this study, so those zones are remaining the same (for now). Good question about the MS issue, but since he didn't select any of the MS options, I think whichever MS you're zoned for now remains the same.

Right, but he phrased it as MS assignments will "stay the same for Forest Knolls, Montgomery Knolls, and Pine Crest" - but are the FK3 and FK4 zones "Forest Knolls" or "Pine Crest"? If the recommendation is adopted, they will go to Pine Crest and if the Pine Crest MS assignment "stays the same" then those kids from FK3 and FK4 who go to Pine Crest should go to Eastern? Or, did he mean that the MS assignments will stay the same as they are now, creating a new MKES-PCES-SSIMS-Northwood zone? It's just a very confusing way of putting it in the report.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Superintendent's recommendation is up: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/Knolls_SupplementB.pdf

That is a really confusing document regarding the MS issue because it says the recommendation is for MS articulation to “remain the same” for FKES and PCES. So does that mean that the kids moving from FKES to PCES will articulate with Pine Crest as a whole (be re-assigned for MS too) or that the current assignments will be maintained? And what about high school? If I lived in the zones to be moved I’d be totally confused.

HS was never part of this study, so those zones are remaining the same (for now). Good question about the MS issue, but since he didn't select any of the MS options, I think whichever MS you're zoned for now remains the same.

Right, but he phrased it as MS assignments will "stay the same for Forest Knolls, Montgomery Knolls, and Pine Crest" - but are the FK3 and FK4 zones "Forest Knolls" or "Pine Crest"? If the recommendation is adopted, they will go to Pine Crest and if the Pine Crest MS assignment "stays the same" then those kids from FK3 and FK4 who go to Pine Crest should go to Eastern? Or, did he mean that the MS assignments will stay the same as they are now, creating a new MKES-PCES-SSIMS-Northwood zone? It's just a very confusing way of putting it in the report.

Agreed. The map is a little hard to read but if I understand it correctly, I believe that all of the neighborhoods currently zoned for Forest Knolls will still go to SSIMS and Northwood—just as they were before. Which is a shame In my opinion because it means some kids who became friends in Kindergarten through 5th grade will branch off into different middle schools and high schools and those friendships will sort of evaporate. I don’t like split articulation.