Cliff Notes summary of MCPS boundary study fight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing has been proposed yet. Racist parents in fear that their kid might have a minority kid(read brown kid) of any background started lashing out as if browness is contagious. They are not opposed to only busing their white kids, they are opposed to brownish kids coming to their white school. For example, Westland parents are going nuts thinking that more brown kids will be added to their underused school. They are getting ready to cut off their kids from their wills if they take less than natural platinum blonde date to prom or homecoming.

There’s more racism towards brownish teachers from their peers. If we are not black or white, we better be instructional assistants, cafeteria workers or building service people. At least parents appreciate competency brownish teachers.

[Anonymous]

Competent not competency

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing has been proposed yet. Racist parents in fear that their kid might have a minority kid(read brown kid) of any background started lashing out as if browness is contagious. They are not opposed to only busing their white kids, they are opposed to brownish kids coming to their white school. For example, Westland parents are going nuts thinking that more brown kids will be added to their underused school. They are getting ready to cut off their kids from their wills if they take less than natural platinum blonde date to prom or homecoming.

There’s more racism towards brownish teachers from their peers. If we are not black or white, we better be instructional assistants, cafeteria workers or building service people. At least parents appreciate competency brownish teachers.

Very true too! If you are a black woman that has an opinion.... well, you are unhinged, irrational, hysterical and likely to get beaten by a white cop. And you won't even make the news!

[Anonymous]

It’s led to a whole bunch of division throughout the county. Lots of racist statements, lots of folks behaving in ways they probably are ashamed of, lots of people calling other people racist and segregationists (sometimes with good reason), and not much progress.

Those are the Cliff Notes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone give an overview of why the proposed boundary study is so controversial. Who are the perceived winners and losers? Most of the dcum threads assume a general knowledge of what’s happening and it’s very confusing.

Because most of the boundaries haven't changed since the 1980s, and people don't like change.

And it is rational to not like change. My older child has just finished middle school. i know the principal, who the good teachers are, what after-school services are available, how long it takes for my sister to pick up my child when necessary. Now more than half the student population is going to be moved to another school an I am not happy for my younger child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS has had recent significant growth, while use of facilities is uneven. Some schools are overcrowded and some underutilized. The district hired a consultant to review all current boundaries with an eye to how they affect overcrowding, diversity, and students’ proximity to their schools. The consultants will not recommend any boundary changes and the county will not make any boundary changes during this initial process.

Parents on DCUM and Facebook groups have spread the rumor that children will be bussed far from home in order to balance out school demographics, and that their home values will suffer as a result. MCPS has specifically responded that they are only looking at schools and clusters adjacent to one another and have no intention of bussing students across the county.

This seems like a fair summary. I'd also mention there are many cases now where students don't attend the geographically closest high-school to their home. There are also some boundaries that resemble a congressional district designed by the RNC. There's a lot of room for improvement and there's no reason to go crazy or fearmonger.

Just to say the obvious -- given the fixed locations of the high schools, and their fixed capacities, one should not expect all students to attend their closest high school. Consider a school in a population dense region of the county. It might be the closest high school for 3000 kids but only have a capacity for 2000 kids. So 1000 students will not attend their closest high school.

I have done some work on similar optimization problems. Given the locations of the high schools and their capacities,, and the locations of all the kids, create school boundaries that minimize the (root mean square) travel time of all the students. There a reasons why one might want to modify such a "neutral" boundary map, but it would make a useful start. I could do it for MCPS, for say, $50,000.

[Anonymous]

Watch the videos! The "experts" are not looking too confident. lol

https://www.mymcmedia.org/boundary-study-meeting-gets-heated/?fbclid=IwAR1g4D1-_tE1ZhDX5smSD0QqRaga5vZxoGXshIouMsOaQK4vqUa7M2JpQoA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watch the videos! The "experts" are not looking too confident. lol

https://www.mymcmedia.org/boundary-study-meeting-gets-heated/?fbclid=IwAR1g4D1-_tE1ZhDX5smSD0QqRaga5vZxoGXshIouMsOaQK4vqUa7M2JpQoA

? You wouldn't either if you had an angry mob heckling you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch the videos! The "experts" are not looking too confident. lol

https://www.mymcmedia.org/boundary-study-meeting-gets-heated/?fbclid=IwAR1g4D1-_tE1ZhDX5smSD0QqRaga5vZxoGXshIouMsOaQK4vqUa7M2JpQoA

? You wouldn't either if you had an angry mob heckling you.

Hey - as project leads, you need to prepare for that reaction. They didn't do their research. Know your audience! No one EVER guarantees you'll face a respectful audience.

Prepare for the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing has been proposed yet. Racist parents in fear that their kid might have a minority kid(read brown kid) of any background started lashing out as if browness is contagious. They are not opposed to only busing their white kids, they are opposed to brownish kids coming to their white school. For example, Westland parents are going nuts thinking that more brown kids will be added to their underused school. They are getting ready to cut off their kids from their wills if they take less than natural platinum blonde date to prom or homecoming.

MCPS is already majority-minority, so maybe it's the non-white parents afraid of the white kids? Whites are only 28.3% of MCPS enrollment. and not even the largest group in MCPS (latinos are 30.8%).

Ha, ha, ha. I am LOLing so hard at your trolling attempt of reverse racism! The only parents who have any issue with this are parents of W and other white schools. Or did the orderly meeting at White Oak slip your mind? Your post is exactly telling of how bad the segregation is in MCPS.

The meeting prior to the White Oak meeting was at Julius West in Rockville. The nearest meeting for W school parents will be at a W school -- at WJ in about 3 weeks.

Rockville is close to predominantly white school. Very close. You seriously need to ask yourself why integrating schools makes you so mad that you are shaking in fear just at the thought of some brown kids being around your kid.

I don't care about the integration aspect on way or another. I just don't want my kid bused across town to go to school. If kids need to be bused to the next-nearest school due to capacity, that makes sense. If they need to bus them for some diversity objective, I'm stauchly against that.

I know you'll say no one has said anything about that happening, which is true, since no boundary decisions have been made. But likewise no one has said anything about it NOT happening either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch the videos! The "experts" are not looking too confident. lol

https://www.mymcmedia.org/boundary-study-meeting-gets-heated/?fbclid=IwAR1g4D1-_tE1ZhDX5smSD0QqRaga5vZxoGXshIouMsOaQK4vqUa7M2JpQoA

? You wouldn't either if you had an angry mob heckling you.

What do people do when they feel the government is unjust? They take to the streets and show their dissatisfaction. This is the equivalent of that.

The BOE is elected to serve their consituents. If they were doing this well, would there be so much dissent among the people they serve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch the videos! The "experts" are not looking too confident. lol

https://www.mymcmedia.org/boundary-study-meeting-gets-heated/?fbclid=IwAR1g4D1-_tE1ZhDX5smSD0QqRaga5vZxoGXshIouMsOaQK4vqUa7M2JpQoA

? You wouldn't either if you had an angry mob heckling you.

What do people do when they feel the government is unjust? They take to the streets and show their dissatisfaction. This is the equivalent of that.

The BOE is elected to serve their consituents. If they were doing this well, would there be so much dissent among the people they serve?

Yes. Because there is a minority of haves that feel like BoE is taking stuff away from them for the unfair benefit of the undeserving have-nots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I don't care about the integration aspect on way or another. I just don't want my kid bused across town to go to school. If kids need to be bused to the next-nearest school due to capacity, that makes sense. If they need to bus them for some diversity objective, I'm stauchly against that.

I know you'll say no one has said anything about that happening, which is true, since no boundary decisions have been made. But likewise no one has said anything about it NOT happening either.

Yes, they have. Nobody is going to get reassigned to a school across the county (for all that some people in southern Clarksburg are trying to make it sound like getting reassigned to schools in northern Germantown is getting reassigned to schools across the county).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch the videos! The "experts" are not looking too confident. lol

https://www.mymcmedia.org/boundary-study-meeting-gets-heated/?fbclid=IwAR1g4D1-_tE1ZhDX5smSD0QqRaga5vZxoGXshIouMsOaQK4vqUa7M2JpQoA

? You wouldn't either if you had an angry mob heckling you.

Hey - as project leads, you need to prepare for that reaction. They didn't do their research. Know your audience! No one EVER guarantees you'll face a respectful audience.

Prepare for the worst.

They certainly did get the worst, at that Julius West MS meeting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't care about the integration aspect on way or another. I just don't want my kid bused across town to go to school. If kids need to be bused to the next-nearest school due to capacity, that makes sense. If they need to bus them for some diversity objective, I'm stauchly against that.

I know you'll say no one has said anything about that happening, which is true, since no boundary decisions have been made. But likewise no one has said anything about it NOT happening either.

Yes, they have. Nobody is going to get reassigned to a school across the county (for all that some people in southern Clarksburg are trying to make it sound like getting reassigned to schools in northern Germantown is getting reassigned to schools across the county).

Show me in writing from MCPS where they state that. I've read policy FAA and the RFP for the consultant, as well as the consultant's handouts from the last 2 presentations. Nothing states that such a scenario is impossible.