3/26 Board of Ed meeting live thread

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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.

I actually think the problem is that they do often but not always change things based on feedback. So it feels like the hunger games, this competition for which community is the most organized to get what it wants.

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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.

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?

The 54 bus, for one.

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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.

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?

The 54 bus, for one.

The closest stop is over a mile away from Wootton, and more than 2 miles away for neighborhoods behind Frost.

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If you hop on 54, how long does it take right now to go from Wootton to Crown?

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Anonymous wrote:If you hop on 54, how long does it take right now to go from Wootton to Crown?

You can’t hop on on Tide on 54, it doesn’t stop near Wootton .

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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.

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?

I just told you I took 2-3 buses to get home from Blair. 2 if I walked a mile from old Blair to the SS metro station, 3 if I took a bus up Wayne to the metro. Kids can walk a mile. MCPS walk zone assumes elementary school kids can walk a mile. Certainly HS students can. It’s 15-20 min. It’s good for you

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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.

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?

The 54 bus, for one.

The closest stop is over a mile away from Wootton, and more than 2 miles away for neighborhoods behind Frost.

Depending on where you're going and your ability to walk, you can transfer.

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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.

Why would they start doing that now?

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I used to walk 2.5miles from school—it’s doable and good exercise.

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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.

I actually feel bad for Fields Road and Rosemont.

why

Because I am not a fan of the behavior of that demographic.

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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.

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?

Their kids also are a reflection of their parents’ ideology, so no I would not want my kids exposed to their subtle racism and classism.

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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.

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?

I just told you I took 2-3 buses to get home from Blair. 2 if I walked a mile from old Blair to the SS metro station, 3 if I took a bus up Wayne to the metro. Kids can walk a mile. MCPS walk zone assumes elementary school kids can walk a mile. Certainly HS students can. It’s 15-20 min. It’s good for you

I walked 10 km to and back from school in a small town in Siberia. Fighting off mountain tigers, wolves and bears. I want the same for my children .

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Anonymous wrote:I am sorry I voted for Laura Stewart. She is a huge disappointment

Me too, I thought she'd stand up for the DCC and the DCC schools.

Something seemed to change in her and Montoya after winter break. I liked them back then but then they got in line.

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Anonymous wrote:Omg someone (Montoya?) just said “lots of racism” into a hot mic when the crowd clapped for Julie’s vote!

She said “that’s the racism”

I warned you all not to vote for Montoya.

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Anonymous wrote:If you hop on 54, how long does it take right now to go from Wootton to Crown?

You can’t hop on on Tide on 54, it doesn’t stop near Wootton .

Sure it does. The stop is well inside the walk zone. Depending on where you live, it may be closer to your house than old Wootton.