3/26 Board of Ed meeting live thread

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, which BOE member mentioned racism with a chuckle after Yang’s vote against was applauded. That’s rich after the nonstop tone policing earlier in the meeting.

It was Montoya.

Her claims of racism are rich since she was the loudest voice in favor of closing the only Black-run charter in MCPS: MBLI.

She’s a fraud and a hypocrite. She doesn’t care about Black people. She’s just using them as a talking point to stick it to the people who are against the superintendent’s recommendation.

Stop using the word rich like that! Montoya and Wolff’s comments were totally accurate. There is a reason the current programs are overwhelmingly white and Asian students. The actual RICH parents whining about FARMS rates, building utilization, and how heartbroken they are that they bought a home walking distance from a supposed quality schooo need to STFU. As Wolff said, this dont about YOU. It’s about what’s good for ALL students. And if you keep putting down and leaving out the black and brown kids, we will call you out on it!

The reason the programs are overwhelming Asian and White is because there are more Asians and Whites applying. If you don’t apply, you don’t get in. Who applies? The parents. This is a reflection of MCPS not reaching out to communities who are underrepresented.

Applying is the easy part. Making it actually work is the harder part. Getting to a central bus stop may not be practical. There also may not be enough activity buses to make it worth leaving your home school for the program, and if parents can’t be the ride, then they would have to turn down the program. I have to assume the the white/asian populations in the current program are more affluent and have the ability to get kids from school in an emergency or even for them to participate in other things.

I would really like to see MCPS work with the county to create more direct routes from schools to the communities they serve.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Big winners: Fields Road and Rosemont get Wootton. Dufief gets to keep Wootton.

Only loser: Magruder community, who I truly feel for, but hitched their wagon to the made up Save Wootton excuses that seem to be more about Save Wootton from Gaithersburg elementary schools joining it.

Everyone else: Very slight nudge down for Wootton as a whole.

The best possible option given the circumstances prevailed.

In the demographics game, NWHS is the big loser.

How?

They are takingBrown Station out of QO and placing it into NWHS. NWHS will
be a mega FARMS, majority non English Speaking school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big winners: Fields Road and Rosemont get Wootton. Dufief gets to keep Wootton.

Only loser: Magruder community, who I truly feel for, but hitched their wagon to the made up Save Wootton excuses that seem to be more about Save Wootton from Gaithersburg elementary schools joining it.

Everyone else: Very slight nudge down for Wootton as a whole.

The best possible option given the circumstances prevailed.

In the demographics game, NWHS is the big loser.

How?

They are takingBrown Station out of QO and placing it into NWHS. NWHS will
be a mega FARMS, majority non English Speaking school.

And they're removing Darnestown ES from NWHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big winners: Fields Road and Rosemont get Wootton. Dufief gets to keep Wootton.

Only loser: Magruder community, who I truly feel for, but hitched their wagon to the made up Save Wootton excuses that seem to be more about Save Wootton from Gaithersburg elementary schools joining it.

Everyone else: Very slight nudge down for Wootton as a whole.

The best possible option given the circumstances prevailed.

In the demographics game, NWHS is the big loser.

How?

They are takingBrown Station out of QO and placing it into NWHS. NWHS will
be a mega FARMS, majority non English Speaking school.

I just saw that. But are they moving out any other ES from NW cluster or just adding one more to it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big winners: Fields Road and Rosemont get Wootton. Dufief gets to keep Wootton.

Only loser: Magruder community, who I truly feel for, but hitched their wagon to the made up Save Wootton excuses that seem to be more about Save Wootton from Gaithersburg elementary schools joining it.

Everyone else: Very slight nudge down for Wootton as a whole.

The best possible option given the circumstances prevailed.

In the demographics game, NWHS is the big loser.

How?

They are takingBrown Station out of QO and placing it into NWHS. NWHS will
be a mega FARMS, majority non English Speaking school.

And they're removing Darnestown ES from NWHS.

Was Darnestown ES high FARSM too?

[Anonymous]

FARMS. Typo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big winners: Fields Road and Rosemont get Wootton. Dufief gets to keep Wootton.

Only loser: Magruder community, who I truly feel for, but hitched their wagon to the made up Save Wootton excuses that seem to be more about Save Wootton from Gaithersburg elementary schools joining it.

Everyone else: Very slight nudge down for Wootton as a whole.

The best possible option given the circumstances prevailed.

In the demographics game, NWHS is the big loser.

How?

They are takingBrown Station out of QO and placing it into NWHS. NWHS will
be a mega FARMS, majority non English Speaking school.

And they're removing Darnestown ES from NWHS.

Was Darnestown ES high FARSM too?

No, that's the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big winners: Fields Road and Rosemont get Wootton. Dufief gets to keep Wootton.

Only loser: Magruder community, who I truly feel for, but hitched their wagon to the made up Save Wootton excuses that seem to be more about Save Wootton from Gaithersburg elementary schools joining it.

Everyone else: Very slight nudge down for Wootton as a whole.

The best possible option given the circumstances prevailed.

I actually feel bad for Fields Road and Rosemont.

why

Didn't you see how the Wootton parents were acting? Would you want your kids going to school with their kids?

Total bullies. The condescension in the testimonies was....something. No self-awareness of how absurd they look. Magruder families are rightfully complaining that MCPS ends up favoring privileged schools like Wootton and Wootton parents are like "MCPS giving us a new school is DEVASTATING. Our kids might ----- have to take ---- an actual BUS! The horrors!"

A bus? What bus? No money for buses.

MCPS currently buses thousands of kids to school. By moving Wootton to Crown, there will still be kids that walk to the school. They will just be different kids than the kids that walk now. The kids that walk now will take the bus.

[Anonymous]

i’m I was shocked at Montoya racism against Asians. I only know one other group who gets the same type of hate for being a successful minority. I did not realize that Asians get this hate until I heard Montoya speak yesterday. I hope someone submits a hate and bias incident to MCPS since she is an employee.

[Anonymous]

What a long, strange road it’s been since the early days of the huge crowd yelling at the original consultants over a plan to redistricting everyone in the county for more equitable diversity.

Now we can all focus on these regional programs and get this right. I hope they engage with experts (more consultants!), teachers, principals, students and parents on this, not just decrees from central office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a long, strange road it’s been since the early days of the huge crowd yelling at the original consultants over a plan to redistricting everyone in the county for more equitable diversity.

Now we can all focus on these regional programs and get this right. I hope they engage with experts (more consultants!), teachers, principals, students and parents on this, not just decrees from central office.

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be their plan. They also simply don't care about racial equity. They haven't considered it at all but happy to slap the word "equity" at all. So this is a plan that will pull well resourced and highly motivated students to wealthy schools, bringing more staffing to those schools while less wealthy schools lose students and staffing. We know Taylor doesn't care about racial equity because in the boundary study he prioritized pretty maps (not an FAA factor) over balanced demographics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a long, strange road it’s been since the early days of the huge crowd yelling at the original consultants over a plan to redistricting everyone in the county for more equitable diversity.

Now we can all focus on these regional programs and get this right. I hope they engage with experts (more consultants!), teachers, principals, students and parents on this, not just decrees from central office.

MCPS “engages” with teachers, students, parents only for show. They don’t take any opinion or advice under consideration. Hurricane Taylor is leaving a trail of destruction in this county before he moves on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, which BOE member mentioned racism with a chuckle after Yang’s vote against was applauded. That’s rich after the nonstop tone policing earlier in the meeting.

It was Montoya.

Her claims of racism are rich since she was the loudest voice in favor of closing the only Black-run charter in MCPS: MBLI.

She’s a fraud and a hypocrite. She doesn’t care about Black people. She’s just using them as a talking point to stick it to the people who are against the superintendent’s recommendation.

Stop using the word rich like that! Montoya and Wolff’s comments were totally accurate. There is a reason the current programs are overwhelmingly white and Asian students. The actual RICH parents whining about FARMS rates, building utilization, and how heartbroken they are that they bought a home walking distance from a supposed quality schooo need to STFU. As Wolff said, this dont about YOU. It’s about what’s good for ALL students. And if you keep putting down and leaving out the black and brown kids, we will call you out on it!

The reason the programs are overwhelming Asian and White is because there are more Asians and Whites applying. If you don’t apply, you don’t get in. Who applies? The parents. This is a reflection of MCPS not reaching out to communities who are underrepresented.

Applying is the easy part. Making it actually work is the harder part. Getting to a central bus stop may not be practical. There also may not be enough activity buses to make it worth leaving your home school for the program, and if parents can’t be the ride, then they would have to turn down the program. I have to assume the the white/asian populations in the current program are more affluent and have the ability to get kids from school in an emergency or even for them to participate in other things.

I would really like to see MCPS work with the county to create more direct routes from schools to the communities they serve.

Or they can take public transportation home from afterschool activities. I went to Eastern and Blair out of area in the 90s. The school bus option picked up so early and so far from my house that I took public transportation instead to Eastern in the morning and took a school bus half way home and then got off and took a Ride-On the rest of the way. To Blair I got a carpool in the morning and then took the same school bus/RideOn combo in the afternoon. But if I stayed late at school I took 2-3 RideOn/Metro buses to get home before I could drive. It was fine. It is good for HS kids to get experience using public transportation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did they pass Woodward yet?

It was all passed.

Huge win for WJ.

Honestly, this is true

And Quince Orchard. I know the Wootton parents are worried about MCPS decimating a "high-performing school" but this shift now leaves WJ and QO with likely huge improvements to come in rankings and Wootton with a minimal slide back.

Reduced enrollment equals less teachers. Less teachers equals less course options. Less course options equal lower levels not higher

*fewer

And I don't think you're going to convince me that QO dropping from 115% to 96% enrollment is somehow bad for educational outcomes xD

Good point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, which BOE member mentioned racism with a chuckle after Yang’s vote against was applauded. That’s rich after the nonstop tone policing earlier in the meeting.

It was Montoya.

Her claims of racism are rich since she was the loudest voice in favor of closing the only Black-run charter in MCPS: MBLI.

She’s a fraud and a hypocrite. She doesn’t care about Black people. She’s just using them as a talking point to stick it to the people who are against the superintendent’s recommendation.

Stop using the word rich like that! Montoya and Wolff’s comments were totally accurate. There is a reason the current programs are overwhelmingly white and Asian students. The actual RICH parents whining about FARMS rates, building utilization, and how heartbroken they are that they bought a home walking distance from a supposed quality schooo need to STFU. As Wolff said, this dont about YOU. It’s about what’s good for ALL students. And if you keep putting down and leaving out the black and brown kids, we will call you out on it!

The reason the programs are overwhelming Asian and White is because there are more Asians and Whites applying. If you don’t apply, you don’t get in. Who applies? The parents. This is a reflection of MCPS not reaching out to communities who are underrepresented.

Applying is the easy part. Making it actually work is the harder part. Getting to a central bus stop may not be practical. There also may not be enough activity buses to make it worth leaving your home school for the program, and if parents can’t be the ride, then they would have to turn down the program. I have to assume the the white/asian populations in the current program are more affluent and have the ability to get kids from school in an emergency or even for them to participate in other things.

I would really like to see MCPS work with the county to create more direct routes from schools to the communities they serve.

Or they can take public transportation home from afterschool activities. I went to Eastern and Blair out of area in the 90s. The school bus option picked up so early and so far from my house that I took public transportation instead to Eastern in the morning and took a school bus half way home and then got off and took a Ride-On the rest of the way. To Blair I got a carpool in the morning and then took the same school bus/RideOn combo in the afternoon. But if I stayed late at school I took 2-3 RideOn/Metro buses to get home before I could drive. It was fine. It is good for HS kids to get experience using public transportation.

Please tell me what direct public transportation options are available from Rio/Crown to Wootton area?