MCPS and Starr will probably need to change boundaries

[Anonymous]

With all the bad press about the achievement gap and terrible math performa

[Anonymous]

no he'll just ask to raise taxes, try some new social experiments, and bleed out good students to other counties and privates.

[Anonymous]

With all the bad press and bad math scores, it seems like the issue of boundary changes is on the table. What are the chances, or can Starr deflect on this issue?

[Anonymous]

What specific boundary changes do you think will help?

[Anonymous]

the county is too big, it needs to divide into 3 separate counties and apply for more or less aid appropriately.

[Anonymous]

No boundary changes, Sweetheart. Should have moved to a better neighborhood if you wanted to be in a better school. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

It's true the county doesn't handle diverse weather and diverse populations well, as regards to schools.

So... can they observe another such county in the nation and learn from them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No boundary changes, Sweetheart. Should have moved to a better neighborhood if you wanted to be in a better school. Sorry.

This condescending poster does not have any real information. Today the County Council pressed Starr on considering boundary changes. He said boundary changes are still on the table, and will be considered in a study on school choice they are commissioning this year. Here's the article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/montgomery-schools-may-explore-boundary-changes-to-address-achievement-gap/2014/07/14/770475e0-0b7e-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html?hpid=z3

[Anonymous]

Correct, PP. He will "consider" it just like he considered changing the start time of the school day. I heard he's busily drafting the survey for the first graders on what they think of boundary changes.

Don't hold your breath, PP.

[Anonymous]

It seems like he's been getting by on the "let's talk about it" approach, but at this point so many people are pissed at him, he doesn't really have much to lose in making a controversial change that might have a real impact on the achievement gap. So all the rich folks in the green zone who are going nuts about 2.0 or math scores or whatever can no longer say: change boundaries and you'll lose our support. It's already been withdrawn. And despite some of the image-centric moves he pulls, in an ideal world where he felt the freedom to do so, I suspect he would shake things up.

The sweetheart poster is a troll. It's a troll word, like the lady who's always saying "you sound like a real peach."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What specific boundary changes do you think will help?

+1

[Anonymous]

I'm curious how this would be done effectively without doing something like bussing? It's not like many of the top performing schools are zoned nearby the bottom performing ones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like he's been getting by on the "let's talk about it" approach, but at this point so many people are pissed at him, he doesn't really have much to lose in making a controversial change that might have a real impact on the achievement gap. So all the rich folks in the green zone who are going nuts about 2.0 or math scores or whatever can no longer say: change boundaries and you'll lose our support. It's already been withdrawn. And despite some of the image-centric moves he pulls, in an ideal world where he felt the freedom to do so, I suspect he would shake things up.

The sweetheart poster is a troll. It's a troll word, like the lady who's always saying "you sound like a real peach."

Zoning doesn't have anything to do with the achievement gap. In the end, everybody will be performing the same and a ton of money and effort will have been wasted.

[Anonymous]

Break up the current consortia. Make new ones with an east west focus.

For example put Walter Johnson, Einstein, Wheaton and JFK together.

[Anonymous]

There are also parts of BCC near silver spring that should be part of DCC.