New recommend capital projects for Poolesville, Damascus, Wootton, and Magruder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP21_SupplementCMajorCapitalProjectsUpdate.pdf

• Poolesville High School—September 2024
• Damascus High School—September 2025
• Thomas S. Wootton High School—September 2026
• Col. Zadok Magruder High School—September 2027

Are monies for these projects tied to meeting baseline desegregation targets?

The monies for these projects are tied to redrawing boundaries in all of those clusters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP21_SupplementCMajorCapitalProjectsUpdate.pdf

• Poolesville High School—September 2024
• Damascus High School—September 2025
• Thomas S. Wootton High School—September 2026
• Col. Zadok Magruder High School—September 2027

Are monies for these projects tied to meeting baseline desegregation targets?

The monies for these projects are tied to redrawing boundaries in all of those clusters.

Hopefully, the diversity bus will put in an end to this nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Agree with this. Northwest is also supposed to be part of the Crown study.

I agree. I don’t think NWHS will be part of a Poolesville study. It will already have a redistrict doe to Crown, which is geographically much closer to most of the NWHS cluster. Poolesville is pretty far from everyone, but I suppose Darnestown could be pulled in. I don’t think that would help demographics, though. So, I’m not sure if that will be a thing. Maybe Poolesville can expand its magnet and revitalize its building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP21_SupplementCMajorCapitalProjectsUpdate.pdf

• Poolesville High School—September 2024
• Damascus High School—September 2025
• Thomas S. Wootton High School—September 2026
• Col. Zadok Magruder High School—September 2027

Are monies for these projects tied to meeting baseline desegregation targets?

The monies for these projects are tied to redrawing boundaries in all of those clusters.

Well, no, because they will have already begun construction before any boundaries are redrawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP21_SupplementCMajorCapitalProjectsUpdate.pdf

• Poolesville High School—September 2024
• Damascus High School—September 2025
• Thomas S. Wootton High School—September 2026
• Col. Zadok Magruder High School—September 2027

Are monies for these projects tied to meeting baseline desegregation targets?

The monies for these projects are tied to redrawing boundaries in all of those clusters.

One can hope that future school boundaries result in demographics that reflect the overall county and less segregated than today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Hopefully, the diversity bus will put in an end to this nonsense.

Find a new cliche, please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

One can hope that future school boundaries result in demographics that reflect the overall county and less segregated than today.

Just stop. You can’t chase demographics all over the county. Poolesville is inhabited by mostly White people. When black peoples move in, they enroll in the local school. Then their kids go to that school. Because the school system is not segregated. People do self-segregate. There are a wide variety of reasons that happens and we all know that many of them are not productive and many of them reflect past injustice, current injustice, blatant racism, incorrectly assumed racism, legal immigration, illegal immigration, and many many other factors. Some people just like to live around people who have a shared heritage or live near their church, and have no negative feelings toward other races. Some people immediately sell their house if a person of color moves next door and drive their car to Nebraska. Good riddance to those people. But the fact remains that people live where they live. When we try to chase people around and perfectly balance the racial demographics we have other negative ramifications. Demographics change continually in this transient area. We can’t move kids every few years to try to fix a problem that has many other solutions or to fix a problem that is too deep rooted for this to fix simply by redrawing boundary lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You are too smart for this board

One can hope that future school boundaries result in demographics that reflect the overall county and less segregated than today.

Just stop. You can’t chase demographics all over the county. Poolesville is inhabited by mostly White people. When black peoples move in, they enroll in the local school. Then their kids go to that school. Because the school system is not segregated. People do self-segregate. There are a wide variety of reasons that happens and we all know that many of them are not productive and many of them reflect past injustice, current injustice, blatant racism, incorrectly assumed racism, legal immigration, illegal immigration, and many many other factors. Some people just like to live around people who have a shared heritage or live near their church, and have no negative feelings toward other races. Some people immediately sell their house if a person of color moves next door and drive their car to Nebraska. Good riddance to those people. But the fact remains that people live where they live. When we try to chase people around and perfectly balance the racial demographics we have other negative ramifications. Demographics change continually in this transient area. We can’t move kids every few years to try to fix a problem that has many other solutions or to fix a problem that is too deep rooted for this to fix simply by redrawing boundary lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

One can hope that future school boundaries result in demographics that reflect the overall county and less segregated than today.

Just stop. You can’t chase demographics all over the county. Poolesville is inhabited by mostly White people. When black peoples move in, they enroll in the local school. Then their kids go to that school. Because the school system is not segregated. People do self-segregate. There are a wide variety of reasons that happens and we all know that many of them are not productive and many of them reflect past injustice, current injustice, blatant racism, incorrectly assumed racism, legal immigration, illegal immigration, and many many other factors. Some people just like to live around people who have a shared heritage or live near their church, and have no negative feelings toward other races. Some people immediately sell their house if a person of color moves next door and drive their car to Nebraska. Good riddance to those people. But the fact remains that people live where they live. When we try to chase people around and perfectly balance the racial demographics we have other negative ramifications. Demographics change continually in this transient area. We can’t move kids every few years to try to fix a problem that has many other solutions or to fix a problem that is too deep rooted for this to fix simply by redrawing boundary lines.

People self-segregate, but the school system isn't segregated?

Also, it's factually incorrect that "demographics change continually in this transient area."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

One can hope that future school boundaries result in demographics that reflect the overall county and less segregated than today.

Just stop. You can’t chase demographics all over the county. Poolesville is inhabited by mostly White people. When black peoples move in, they enroll in the local school. Then their kids go to that school. Because the school system is not segregated. People do self-segregate. There are a wide variety of reasons that happens and we all know that many of them are not productive and many of them reflect past injustice, current injustice, blatant racism, incorrectly assumed racism, legal immigration, illegal immigration, and many many other factors. Some people just like to live around people who have a shared heritage or live near their church, and have no negative feelings toward other races. Some people immediately sell their house if a person of color moves next door and drive their car to Nebraska. Good riddance to those people. But the fact remains that people live where they live. When we try to chase people around and perfectly balance the racial demographics we have other negative ramifications. Demographics change continually in this transient area. We can’t move kids every few years to try to fix a problem that has many other solutions or to fix a problem that is too deep rooted for this to fix simply by redrawing boundary lines.

People self-segregate, but the school system isn't segregated?

Also, it's factually incorrect that "demographics change continually in this transient area."

The boundaries are currently set up to segregate. Years of policies like red-lining or illegal covenants also contributed Polies like putting all the low-income housing in one of two corners of the county also contributed to this. The boundaries need to be redrawn so that each school reflects the county's overall FARMS rate of roughly 35%. Currently we have extremes. Concentrating poverty at some schools only hurts those students. This is an undisputed fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The boundaries are currently set up to segregate. Years of policies like red-lining or illegal covenants also contributed Polies like putting all the low-income housing in one of two corners of the county also contributed to this. The boundaries need to be redrawn so that each school reflects the county's overall FARMS rate of roughly 35%. Currently we have extremes. Concentrating poverty at some schools only hurts those students. This is an undisputed fact.

Also factually incorrect.