Starr announces Construction Plan
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Anonymous
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Here is the notice - http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?page=showrelease&id=3424
Sounds to me like MCPS is bursting out of its seams. I expect new schools and boundary changes in the future provided they can get the funds for new buildings. |
Anonymous
| Tell the County Council to fund it fully. |
Anonymous
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I will sit back and laugh at all those people who spent a freaking fortune to live in a particular school cluster. The boundaries are bound to change eventually.
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Anonymous
In the end, those who spent the fortune will be protected. There's too much inertia behind the current HS clusters (political, middle school coordination). From reading the document, it appears to me that what's likely to happen is a bit of elementary school redistricting within clusters (for example, the RM and GBurg clusters will likely need to redraw some elementary lines to accommodate new schools). However, I tend to doubt the HS cluster lines will be redrawn much if at all, and if they are, it won't be the W/BCC clusters. |
Anonymous
| I don't know if it's inertia, so much as that MCPS must know what an enormous political effort it would take to change the Whitman and B-CC boundaries, and will therefore decide that it would be more useful to apply their efforts elsewhere. In a perfect world that wouldn't be true, but in this one, it is. |
Anonymous
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Interesting. So, if the county considered moving the French Immersion program out of Sligo Creek Elementary to another location, then, by my estimate, they'd gain the ability to add about 300 kids. Both Woodlin and Highland View are very close to Sligo Creek Elem. And Sligo Creek's been suffering from too few kids in the neighborhood portion of the school. Move the autism program into a school with more space than in this concentrated DCC area and you gain another couple of classrooms.
East Silver Spring just got an addition a few years ago. I wonder how many more kids they could take over there. Seems like some re-adjusting could save a lot of school construction money. Then, hey, maybe they could use those funds to fix the mold issue at Rolling Terrace! |
Anonymous
Where would they move the Immersion program in this scenario? Isn't it one if the few - or only - special offerings availabe through littery within the DCC for elementary? |
Anonymous
| The gazillion references to "Dr. Starr's" this and "Dr. Starr's" that creep me out. It seems like such a personality cult, or at least some serious egomania at work. |
Anonymous
I agree. They are always being adjusted. fact of life For now, the schools that remain untouched are those "far out there." I doubt Damascus HS will suffer through boundary changes - or Poolesville. Sherwood HS refused to join the NEC, which was a wise decision, as the NEC only pits neighbor against neighbor and creates an unfair competition among three schools. As it stands now, there's a bit of a split articulation with Farquhar, which doesn't make people happy. The likelihood of rezoning increases when more and more areas become densely populated and the SES levels show a dramatic gap. I agree; Bethesda in particular will become affected. And those who laughed at us for moving "far out" will not be laughing for long. |
Anonymous
| Immersion lotteries are at Sligo Creek, Rolling Terrace and Rock Creek Forest. All in a concentrated area down county. Great for folks in my neighborhood, but none overly centralized. |
Anonymous
| The problem is that there isn't a lot of capacity anywhere in the county. You can't just change boundaries and fix capacity problems- maybe a bit on the margins- but not in any substantial way. |
Anonymous
| The population will keep growing, right? Will school districts eventually start building vertically? What's the alternative? |
Anonymous
he is a total wack job. he is in way over his head, he won't last long |
Anonymous
| College Gardens could solve its big overcrowding issue if Chinese Immersion was moved. If the new ES for the RM cluster is built, I think CI likely will be moved. Much easier to move a magnet where everyone is bussed anyways then neighborhood kids. They would take all of their teachers and classmates with them. |
Anonymous
But don't most of the construction recommendations come from the division of long range planning? Starr may be a nut, and that comes out in so many ways, but he's probably just relying on the planning division to tell him what to do with the school boundaries and to address capacity through construction. He seems to prefer circulating among everyone and sharing his philosophies about education, and when it comes to these "boring" facility-related and non-educational-just-practical issues that impact so many people so directly and for the long-term, I think he's delegating. He should probably jump in and take a closer look at how decisions are being made in DLRP. |