How will Wootton or RM be affected by new high school in Crown Farm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely the town homes in Rio will be moved to Crown. Those go to Wootton right now.

That’s not debatable. The question is whether any part of north Potomac from wootton would be rezoned out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Out of every single talk here, the one thing I will bet on all day long is the entire King Farm will be going to Gaithersburg. It's already stupid they broke up the neighborhood and Gaithersburg is closer than RM anyway.

They need to rezone students out of Gaithersburg and RM to reduce overcrowding, not add more to either.

They can move some in and more out and end up with less students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Out of every single talk here, the one thing I will bet on all day long is the entire King Farm will be going to Gaithersburg. It's already stupid they broke up the neighborhood and Gaithersburg is closer than RM anyway.

They need to rezone students out of Gaithersburg and RM to reduce overcrowding, not add more to either.

They will move out a bunch of poor students and replace many of them with kids from KF for diversity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of every single talk here, the one thing I will bet on all day long is the entire King Farm will be going to Gaithersburg. It's already stupid they broke up the neighborhood and Gaithersburg is closer than RM anyway.

They need to rezone students out of Gaithersburg and RM to reduce overcrowding, not add more to either.

They can move some in and more out and end up with less students.

Easier said than done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of every single talk here, the one thing I will bet on all day long is the entire King Farm will be going to Gaithersburg. It's already stupid they broke up the neighborhood and Gaithersburg is closer than RM anyway.

They need to rezone students out of Gaithersburg and RM to reduce overcrowding, not add more to either.

They will move out a bunch of poor students and replace many of them with kids from KF for diversity.

Most of the "poor students" are current walkers to GHS. They're not going to make current walkers become bus riders.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure the idea of KF/College Gardens being reassigned to Crown was an idea pushed by the six-figure CO staff at Hungerford. But if KF/College Gardens goes anywhere, it's more likely headed to Gaithersburg HS.

The idea of all of Fallsmead going to crown is equally self-serving since it's on Wootton Parkway (hint, it's closer to a different high school - can you guess which one?). Only a small jerrymandered sliver is in Crown the same way that a jerrymandered sliver is in CJMS.

RM wasn't even part of the original intended study, so if it's been added I'd out to MoCo Show who's got their fingers in the cookie jar.

And anyone who says "overcrowding" is a reason for Crown is fibbing. There was a thread about one or two years ago that went through the boundary study capacity charts. You could redraw boundaries on the county northern, western and southern boundaries pretty easily.

So the real question is whether the Hungerford CO crowd will monopolize Crown? I hope they're all fired before that happens. I'm sick of the CO treating MCPS as their own personal piggy bank. They gotta go.

I didn't see previous mention of Fallsmead in this thread, but while Fallsmead itself is right next to Wootton, it's also fed by an island consisting of the Washingtonian towers which are right next to Crown. BOE has mentioned they want to avoid introducing new split articulations, but it probably makes sense in this specific case to do so and continue sending those towers to Fallsmead ES, but to Crown for HS.

Note that ideally the towers should go to another closer ES as well, but ES's are not in play for this redistricting, and Fallsmead is a great school that would be underenrolled if the towers were removed.

They will be removed 100%. HOA at the Tower already informed. My mom lives there. The Rio area will be Fields to Crown. It's ridiculous they even go to that cluster now. Same with Travilah. So far away

Is Travilah further than Dufief?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure the idea of KF/College Gardens being reassigned to Crown was an idea pushed by the six-figure CO staff at Hungerford. But if KF/College Gardens goes anywhere, it's more likely headed to Gaithersburg HS.

The idea of all of Fallsmead going to crown is equally self-serving since it's on Wootton Parkway (hint, it's closer to a different high school - can you guess which one?). Only a small jerrymandered sliver is in Crown the same way that a jerrymandered sliver is in CJMS.

RM wasn't even part of the original intended study, so if it's been added I'd out to MoCo Show who's got their fingers in the cookie jar.

And anyone who says "overcrowding" is a reason for Crown is fibbing. There was a thread about one or two years ago that went through the boundary study capacity charts. You could redraw boundaries on the county northern, western and southern boundaries pretty easily.

So the real question is whether the Hungerford CO crowd will monopolize Crown? I hope they're all fired before that happens. I'm sick of the CO treating MCPS as their own personal piggy bank. They gotta go.

I didn't see previous mention of Fallsmead in this thread, but while Fallsmead itself is right next to Wootton, it's also fed by an island consisting of the Washingtonian towers which are right next to Crown. BOE has mentioned they want to avoid introducing new split articulations, but it probably makes sense in this specific case to do so and continue sending those towers to Fallsmead ES, but to Crown for HS.

Note that ideally the towers should go to another closer ES as well, but ES's are not in play for this redistricting, and Fallsmead is a great school that would be underenrolled if the towers were removed.

They will be removed 100%. HOA at the Tower already informed. My mom lives there. The Rio area will be Fields to Crown. It's ridiculous they even go to that cluster now. Same with Travilah. So far away

Is Travilah further than Dufief?

Elementary school assignments are not part of the boundary study. The elementary school assignments will stay the same, unless the Board of Education decides to add them to the scope of the boundary study too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of every single talk here, the one thing I will bet on all day long is the entire King Farm will be going to Gaithersburg. It's already stupid they broke up the neighborhood and Gaithersburg is closer than RM anyway.

They need to rezone students out of Gaithersburg and RM to reduce overcrowding, not add more to either.

They will move out a bunch of poor students and replace many of them with kids from KF for diversity.

Most of the "poor students" are current walkers to GHS. They're not going to make current walkers become bus riders.

Because MCPS has too much common sense to do that? Bahahahahaahaha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of every single talk here, the one thing I will bet on all day long is the entire King Farm will be going to Gaithersburg. It's already stupid they broke up the neighborhood and Gaithersburg is closer than RM anyway.

They need to rezone students out of Gaithersburg and RM to reduce overcrowding, not add more to either.

They will move out a bunch of poor students and replace many of them with kids from KF for diversity.

Most of the "poor students" are current walkers to GHS. They're not going to make current walkers become bus riders.

Because MCPS has too much common sense to do that? Bahahahahaahaha.

Because in every recent boundary study, MCPS has explicitly chosen not to do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure the idea of KF/College Gardens being reassigned to Crown was an idea pushed by the six-figure CO staff at Hungerford. But if KF/College Gardens goes anywhere, it's more likely headed to Gaithersburg HS.

The idea of all of Fallsmead going to crown is equally self-serving since it's on Wootton Parkway (hint, it's closer to a different high school - can you guess which one?). Only a small jerrymandered sliver is in Crown the same way that a jerrymandered sliver is in CJMS.

RM wasn't even part of the original intended study, so if it's been added I'd out to MoCo Show who's got their fingers in the cookie jar.

And anyone who says "overcrowding" is a reason for Crown is fibbing. There was a thread about one or two years ago that went through the boundary study capacity charts. You could redraw boundaries on the county northern, western and southern boundaries pretty easily.

So the real question is whether the Hungerford CO crowd will monopolize Crown? I hope they're all fired before that happens. I'm sick of the CO treating MCPS as their own personal piggy bank. They gotta go.

I didn't see previous mention of Fallsmead in this thread, but while Fallsmead itself is right next to Wootton, it's also fed by an island consisting of the Washingtonian towers which are right next to Crown. BOE has mentioned they want to avoid introducing new split articulations, but it probably makes sense in this specific case to do so and continue sending those towers to Fallsmead ES, but to Crown for HS.

Note that ideally the towers should go to another closer ES as well, but ES's are not in play for this redistricting, and Fallsmead is a great school that would be underenrolled if the towers were removed.

They will be removed 100%. HOA at the Tower already informed. My mom lives there. The Rio area will be Fields to Crown. It's ridiculous they even go to that cluster now. Same with Travilah. So far away

Is Travilah further than Dufief?

Elementary school assignments are not part of the boundary study. The elementary school assignments will stay the same, unless the Board of Education decides to add them to the scope of the boundary study too.

The assignments to elementary schools are not part of the boundary study, but that's not what the people you're responding to are talking about. They are talking about elementary schools being potentially rezoned out of Wootton, which is absolutely on the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure the idea of KF/College Gardens being reassigned to Crown was an idea pushed by the six-figure CO staff at Hungerford. But if KF/College Gardens goes anywhere, it's more likely headed to Gaithersburg HS.

The idea of all of Fallsmead going to crown is equally self-serving since it's on Wootton Parkway (hint, it's closer to a different high school - can you guess which one?). Only a small jerrymandered sliver is in Crown the same way that a jerrymandered sliver is in CJMS.

RM wasn't even part of the original intended study, so if it's been added I'd out to MoCo Show who's got their fingers in the cookie jar.

And anyone who says "overcrowding" is a reason for Crown is fibbing. There was a thread about one or two years ago that went through the boundary study capacity charts. You could redraw boundaries on the county northern, western and southern boundaries pretty easily.

So the real question is whether the Hungerford CO crowd will monopolize Crown? I hope they're all fired before that happens. I'm sick of the CO treating MCPS as their own personal piggy bank. They gotta go.

I didn't see previous mention of Fallsmead in this thread, but while Fallsmead itself is right next to Wootton, it's also fed by an island consisting of the Washingtonian towers which are right next to Crown. BOE has mentioned they want to avoid introducing new split articulations, but it probably makes sense in this specific case to do so and continue sending those towers to Fallsmead ES, but to Crown for HS.

Note that ideally the towers should go to another closer ES as well, but ES's are not in play for this redistricting, and Fallsmead is a great school that would be underenrolled if the towers were removed.

They will be removed 100%. HOA at the Tower already informed. My mom lives there. The Rio area will be Fields to Crown. It's ridiculous they even go to that cluster now. Same with Travilah. So far away

Is Travilah further than Dufief?

Further than Dufief from which school, Crown? Wootton? It would not be a straightforward choice. There are second order effects that you'd have to look at.

Nobody in the Wootton cluster is going to want to leave. You would be removing people who made personal sacrifices to get there, and nobody is going to thank you for it. And if they backfill with a higher FARMs school, the outrage machine will not be able to resist running headlines that they are "sending the minorities to the old and moldy school while the rich kids get zoned to the new one". MCPS has screwed over the Wootton cluster enough by neglect, I'm optimistic they will do right by them here. Leave Wootton alone and take the easy win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure the idea of KF/College Gardens being reassigned to Crown was an idea pushed by the six-figure CO staff at Hungerford. But if KF/College Gardens goes anywhere, it's more likely headed to Gaithersburg HS.

The idea of all of Fallsmead going to crown is equally self-serving since it's on Wootton Parkway (hint, it's closer to a different high school - can you guess which one?). Only a small jerrymandered sliver is in Crown the same way that a jerrymandered sliver is in CJMS.

RM wasn't even part of the original intended study, so if it's been added I'd out to MoCo Show who's got their fingers in the cookie jar.

And anyone who says "overcrowding" is a reason for Crown is fibbing. There was a thread about one or two years ago that went through the boundary study capacity charts. You could redraw boundaries on the county northern, western and southern boundaries pretty easily.

So the real question is whether the Hungerford CO crowd will monopolize Crown? I hope they're all fired before that happens. I'm sick of the CO treating MCPS as their own personal piggy bank. They gotta go.

I didn't see previous mention of Fallsmead in this thread, but while Fallsmead itself is right next to Wootton, it's also fed by an island consisting of the Washingtonian towers which are right next to Crown. BOE has mentioned they want to avoid introducing new split articulations, but it probably makes sense in this specific case to do so and continue sending those towers to Fallsmead ES, but to Crown for HS.

Note that ideally the towers should go to another closer ES as well, but ES's are not in play for this redistricting, and Fallsmead is a great school that would be underenrolled if the towers were removed.

They will be removed 100%. HOA at the Tower already informed. My mom lives there. The Rio area will be Fields to Crown. It's ridiculous they even go to that cluster now. Same with Travilah. So far away

Is Travilah further than Dufief?

Elementary school assignments are not part of the boundary study. The elementary school assignments will stay the same, unless the Board of Education decides to add them to the scope of the boundary study too.

Now that’s terrible. Kids should move together

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure the idea of KF/College Gardens being reassigned to Crown was an idea pushed by the six-figure CO staff at Hungerford. But if KF/College Gardens goes anywhere, it's more likely headed to Gaithersburg HS.

The idea of all of Fallsmead going to crown is equally self-serving since it's on Wootton Parkway (hint, it's closer to a different high school - can you guess which one?). Only a small jerrymandered sliver is in Crown the same way that a jerrymandered sliver is in CJMS.

RM wasn't even part of the original intended study, so if it's been added I'd out to MoCo Show who's got their fingers in the cookie jar.

And anyone who says "overcrowding" is a reason for Crown is fibbing. There was a thread about one or two years ago that went through the boundary study capacity charts. You could redraw boundaries on the county northern, western and southern boundaries pretty easily.

So the real question is whether the Hungerford CO crowd will monopolize Crown? I hope they're all fired before that happens. I'm sick of the CO treating MCPS as their own personal piggy bank. They gotta go.

I didn't see previous mention of Fallsmead in this thread, but while Fallsmead itself is right next to Wootton, it's also fed by an island consisting of the Washingtonian towers which are right next to Crown. BOE has mentioned they want to avoid introducing new split articulations, but it probably makes sense in this specific case to do so and continue sending those towers to Fallsmead ES, but to Crown for HS.

Note that ideally the towers should go to another closer ES as well, but ES's are not in play for this redistricting, and Fallsmead is a great school that would be underenrolled if the towers were removed.

They will be removed 100%. HOA at the Tower already informed. My mom lives there. The Rio area will be Fields to Crown. It's ridiculous they even go to that cluster now. Same with Travilah. So far away

Is Travilah further than Dufief?

Further than Dufief from which school, Crown? Wootton? It would not be a straightforward choice. There are second order effects that you'd have to look at.

Nobody in the Wootton cluster is going to want to leave. You would be removing people who made personal sacrifices to get there, and nobody is going to thank you for it. And if they backfill with a higher FARMs school, the outrage machine will not be able to resist running headlines that they are "sending the minorities to the old and moldy school while the rich kids get zoned to the new one". MCPS has screwed over the Wootton cluster enough by neglect, I'm optimistic they will do right by them here. Leave Wootton alone and take the easy win.

Wootton isn’t even overcrowded. The only reason it is in the scope is because of Washingtonian will be moved to Crown. If they move anything else, they will be so under enrolled. And then it’s a matter of closing Cold Spring and putting Ritchie Park in Wootton. Too much movement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure the idea of KF/College Gardens being reassigned to Crown was an idea pushed by the six-figure CO staff at Hungerford. But if KF/College Gardens goes anywhere, it's more likely headed to Gaithersburg HS.

The idea of all of Fallsmead going to crown is equally self-serving since it's on Wootton Parkway (hint, it's closer to a different high school - can you guess which one?). Only a small jerrymandered sliver is in Crown the same way that a jerrymandered sliver is in CJMS.

RM wasn't even part of the original intended study, so if it's been added I'd out to MoCo Show who's got their fingers in the cookie jar.

And anyone who says "overcrowding" is a reason for Crown is fibbing. There was a thread about one or two years ago that went through the boundary study capacity charts. You could redraw boundaries on the county northern, western and southern boundaries pretty easily.

So the real question is whether the Hungerford CO crowd will monopolize Crown? I hope they're all fired before that happens. I'm sick of the CO treating MCPS as their own personal piggy bank. They gotta go.

I didn't see previous mention of Fallsmead in this thread, but while Fallsmead itself is right next to Wootton, it's also fed by an island consisting of the Washingtonian towers which are right next to Crown. BOE has mentioned they want to avoid introducing new split articulations, but it probably makes sense in this specific case to do so and continue sending those towers to Fallsmead ES, but to Crown for HS.

Note that ideally the towers should go to another closer ES as well, but ES's are not in play for this redistricting, and Fallsmead is a great school that would be underenrolled if the towers were removed.

They will be removed 100%. HOA at the Tower already informed. My mom lives there. The Rio area will be Fields to Crown. It's ridiculous they even go to that cluster now. Same with Travilah. So far away

Is Travilah further than Dufief?

Elementary school assignments are not part of the boundary study. The elementary school assignments will stay the same, unless the Board of Education decides to add them to the scope of the boundary study too.

Now that’s terrible. Kids should move together

This keeps the elementary school kids together. A whole elementary school zone may be reassigned to a new middle or high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of every single talk here, the one thing I will bet on all day long is the entire King Farm will be going to Gaithersburg. It's already stupid they broke up the neighborhood and Gaithersburg is closer than RM anyway.

Gaithersburg is closer to King Farm than RM, but Crown is closer to King Farm than Gaithersburg.

Distance is irrelevant. The most important thing is which school needs middle class white and Asian kids. That's where KF kids will be sent.

Middle class?