Why isn't MCPS redistricting Rachel Carlson
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Anonymous
| This is getting ridiculous. Dufief right across the street is 70% capacity. We are at 160% What gives? Can they not at least give parents the option to move their child. |
Anonymous
You have the option. Apply for a Change of School Assignment (COSA). Here is the form: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/transfers/ChangeSchoolAssignment-English.pdf Fields Road ES is also close and was under capacity last year; you could try for a COSA there, too. Also, it would be rezoning. The school district is MCPS. |
Anonymous
| No idea. It does seem like the most overcrowded school that has no plan for addition or rezoning. |
Anonymous
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I have posted on here many times about rezoning the entire MCPS district.
I agree, RC is probably one of the most over capacity ES around here. You also have the entire RM cluster at over capacity. The neighboring clusters of Wootton and Churchill have ESs that are under capacity while the RM cluster ESs are *all* over capacity, and there are some condos or townhomes about to be completed that are apparently zoned for RM cluster school even though the Churchill cluster ES is closer to this new development. What school is the new development in King Farm (or is it Crown Farm - where the new Harris Teeter is) zoned for? I truly don't get the zoning in MCPS. You have Fallsgrove zoned for RP, but they pass by Dufief and a few other ESs that are under capacity along the way to RP that also over capacity with at least 4 portables. This is insane. It's stupid. It's a slap in the face to the kids in the portables, and those that have to wait in a very long line for lunch or who have to wait till 1pm for lunch. |
Anonymous
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I have wondered this as well - when we bought two years ago we looked at homes in the RC area. I wonder if any RC parents would be willing to send their kids to Fields Road (for example). Most buy wanting to their kids to go to RC.
This is what the long range planning document currently says: " Projections indicate that enrollment at Rachel Carson Elementary School will exceed capacity by 92 seats or more by the end of the six-year period. Enrollment will continue to be monitored to determine whether it is necessary to develop plans to relieve the overutilization at Rachel Carson Elementary School in the future." It SHOCKS me that MCPS does not have more of a plan than this.... |
Anonymous
| Every other school with that kind of overenrollment has some kind of plan. Some have capacity studies to determine what to do next. |
Anonymous
| Well put 8:32. It is a disgrace and yet another injustice perpetrated by the Starr Regime against certain areas of the county in order to keep the Churchill and Wootton clusters undercapacity. |
Anonymous
| Fwiw, the Whitman cluster es's (and middle and hs) are almost all over capacity as well - so while I agree it is unfair, I do not think it is some grand plan to disadvantage particular schools since Starr's own kids are in the Whitman cluster. My kids' Whitman cluster elem school is also at 160%, with lunch running from 10:45am - 1:45pm ... |
Anonymous
Churchill and Wootton are over capacity, though, so I guess that this nefarious plan isn't working so well. |
Anonymous
We are talking about ES, not HS level. Most HS are over capacity as well, or at capacity. It's harder for ES kids to deal with overcrowding. Most of the Wootton and Churchill cluster ESs are under capacity. |
Anonymous
| Rachel Carson is 160% over, yet they still bus in kids from Governor Sq apartments all the way down from Muddy Branch. |
Anonymous
I don't understand the "yet". Is the attendance of these children at Rachel Carson less legitimate than the attendance of other children? Where do you think they should be going to school instead? |
Anonymous
Fallsgrove kids don't pass Dufief, but they do pass Lakewood and Fallsmead and mileage wise are also closer to Stone Mill than Ritchie Park. |
Anonymous
This is what I'm talking about... they do this at Ritchie Park, too, with Fallsgove. Why? Why? Why? |
Anonymous
| Its a complicated issue. The community does not want a rezoning since for some unknown reason everyone says this would result in parts of Lakelands moving and Gov Square staying. Anyone that suggested moving Gov Square is labelled a racist. |