All the boundary options are bad for the DCC-- how do we organize against that? (Any ideas for alternative options?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how is the DCC uniquely screwed by the new boundary options? The OP never said. The focus is solely on the end of the lotterying to other schools.

Yes, she did

Looking at the boundary options, it's pretty clear that all 4 of them benefit BCC, WJ, and Whitman at the expense of DCC schools. Their boundaries barely change (except WJ which gets Woodward as basically a WJ overflow school) whereas DCC boundaries change a lot. They have almost no split articulation (just Garrett Park and Kensington-Parkwood) while DCC schools have tons. Some DCC schools will remain overcrowded in some of these options, but their schools will not. It seems like they basically decided to give those schools everything they want and then let DCC families argue amongst ourselves for or against certain options that benefit some DCC neighborhoods and schools more than others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sargent Shriver from Wheaton to Woodward, Farmland from Woodward to WJ. Move some Kensington kids from WJ into Einstein (if that makes Einstein too overcrowded, make small tweaks like maybe keeping the Flora Singer kids together and sending them to Northwood.) Move some kids from Kennedy into Wheaton to address overcrowding if needed. Done.

What do folks think of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sargent Shriver from Wheaton to Woodward, Farmland from Woodward to WJ. Move some Kensington kids from WJ into Einstein (if that makes Einstein too overcrowded, make small tweaks like maybe keeping the Flora Singer kids together and sending them to Northwood.) Move some kids from Kennedy into Wheaton to address overcrowding if needed. Done.

What do folks think of this?

ToK are good at screaming and MCPS listens to rich whiners so this is not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sargent Shriver from Wheaton to Woodward, Farmland from Woodward to WJ. Move some Kensington kids from WJ into Einstein (if that makes Einstein too overcrowded, make small tweaks like maybe keeping the Flora Singer kids together and sending them to Northwood.) Move some kids from Kennedy into Wheaton to address overcrowding if needed. Done.

What do folks think of this?

ToK are good at screaming and MCPS listens to rich whiners so this is not going to happen.

Let the tok go to Woodward.

[Anonymous]

DCC needs to realize they built woodward bc of WJ overcrowding. Stick with your cruddy schools in your cruddy homes in your cruddy hood. Don't insert yourself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCC needs to realize they built woodward bc of WJ overcrowding. Stick with your cruddy schools in your cruddy homes in your cruddy hood. Don't insert yourself

This should be on the MCPS Woodward Boundary Study website so everyone knows where MCPS really stands. They need stfu about equity as they clearly do not give one single f?k about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCC needs to realize they built woodward bc of WJ overcrowding. Stick with your cruddy schools in your cruddy homes in your cruddy hood. Don't insert yourself

Yeah, no way, sorry. This is everyone's district, and the boundaries should be drawn in whatever way is best for the district as a whole. If you want a school for just your kids, go private. This is a public school district, you don't get to use our district budget and our tax dollars just to serve your own local desires.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCC needs to realize they built woodward bc of WJ overcrowding. Stick with your cruddy schools in your cruddy homes in your cruddy hood. Don't insert yourself

This should be on the MCPS Woodward Boundary Study website so everyone knows where MCPS really stands. They need stfu about equity as they clearly do not give one single f?k about it.

If you noticed they changed equity to expanding opportunities and unleashing potential. Sadly none of their plans do either of this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sargent Shriver from Wheaton to Woodward, Farmland from Woodward to WJ. Move some Kensington kids from WJ into Einstein (if that makes Einstein too overcrowded, make small tweaks like maybe keeping the Flora Singer kids together and sending them to Northwood.) Move some kids from Kennedy into Wheaton to address overcrowding if needed. Done.

What do folks think of this?

Seems like a good idea

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They will add the neighborhoods that scream the loudest to WJ and Woodward. That will alleviate crowding at the less desirable schools. End of story.

You're not looking at the options they produced. "The less desirable schools" remain overcrowded.

The less desirable schools won’t be overcrowded if they take the neighborhoods that complain the most about being in the less desirable schools and move them to WJ or Woodward. They clearly gave themselves some headroom at the more desirable schools to bring more neighborhoods in.

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Anonymous wrote:If the kids wanting advanced course offerings are not longer able to go to other schools (at least at the same rate as occurs with the DCC) wouldn’t there be more kids at Einstein demanding the advanced courses? Wouldn’t that create the needed demand?

Families are demanding it now but are told its a funding/staffing issue.

Right bc a bunch of kids that would enroll are going to other schools. The end of the DCC fixes that problem, yes?

They keep the numbers equal so even if all those kids were at Einstein it wouldn't change as then they wouldn't let other kids lottery into Einstein.

That’s about overall numbers not about demand for advanced coursework. The whole purpose of the DCC was so that kids interested in a thing could go to a different school. Ergo it seems, based on the statements here, that the critical mass of students needed to support a class is lotterying to a different school.

Whatever draw Einstein had in the DcC did not appear to be the offering of advanced class work.

The DCC academies weren't focused on advanced class work, they were focused on themed elective tracks.

Understood. Do other schools in the DCC offer the advanced coursework that Einstein lacks? Would a student interested in that advanced coursework lottery into the other school?

Yes, Blair and Wheaton would be the STEM-oriented schools which Einstein students might try to lottery into. But there are only a limited number of spots.

+1 let's say with the current DCC model 1/4 of students out of 2000 zoned for Einstein are stem oriented in their interests. So 500. So 125 per grade. And let's say of those more than half, let's say 75, are currently choosing and getting Wheaton or Blair through the DCC choice process. That leaves 50 per grade that are focused on STEM (and some might be more math vs science vs engineering).

Now with the new boundaries there are 1600 kids total, 400 per grade and 100 stem focused kids. Now, only 20 per grade get into outside programs. That leaves 80 per grade focused on stem or an addition section.

Caveat that I made up all the math above.

How do you figure only 20 kids would get into outside programs? MCPS has said their goal is to have no waitlists for these programs and have enough seats to meet the full demand.

So no qualifications just demand? How can they possibly think they will replicate Blair or RMIB. I guess kids will struggle and drop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So how is the DCC uniquely screwed by the new boundary options? The OP never said. The focus is solely on the end of the lotterying to other schools.

To those unfamiliar with the impact of a regional model on Einstein and DCC, listen to a parent of an Einstein student's BOE testimony 9/25/25 (1:20:36)

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DJMGFB439000#

[Anonymous]

The proposed regional model impacts all school clusters, yet not all stakeholders and communities have been given opportunities for to have a meaningful voice and influence.

Talking with other parents and teachers in my neighborhood, they are not even aware of the proposed plan and not to mention its repercussions.

It is wrong for MCPS to unnecessarily barrel ahead to try to pass this plan without multiple rounds of proposals. The timeline needs to be extended so every affected community can have voice (MCPS only held student focus groups in Damascus, Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, Blake, Kennedy, Springbrook, and Richard Montgomery. How were these students selected, what questions were asked, and what about opinions from students from the 18 other high schools?)

The boundary study, which reorganizes cluster boundaries to accommodate the two new high schools, is a separate issue from the proposed regional plan. A regional plan does not need to pass concurrently with the boundary study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how is the DCC uniquely screwed by the new boundary options? The OP never said. The focus is solely on the end of the lotterying to other schools.

There is nothing here which screw DCC specifically. Lotterying to other schools in large number shouldn;t exist anyway. It helps kids winning the lotery but harms kids who are left behind when schools become unequal. Everyone attending home school will help with keeping motivated kids in home school and stronger course offerings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sargent Shriver from Wheaton to Woodward, Farmland from Woodward to WJ. Move some Kensington kids from WJ into Einstein (if that makes Einstein too overcrowded, make small tweaks like maybe keeping the Flora Singer kids together and sending them to Northwood.) Move some kids from Kennedy into Wheaton to address overcrowding if needed. Done.

What do folks think of this?

Bad idea. Walkers should always walk and after that we should take left over students to draw boudaries.