School Boundaries

[Anonymous]

I think the problem is the implication it doesn't matter if the residents of Clarksburg with the overcrowding don't want to go to Seneca Valley which without them doesn't need to be expanded. People don't like their kids getting used for some other agenda.

If MCPS was flush with money and there were not other more critical needs, it could build more special programs. Seems wrong to divert money for pet projects when there is so much need elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG no one wants a career readiness program but MCPS!!! This is pure garbage.

DCC schools, QO, RM, Clarksburg and other schools are way over capacity! Toilets don't work, mold grows on the walls, ceilings fall down, 100s of ADA violations, broken HVACs and abysmal disrepair from constantly delayed renovations throughout the system get completely ignored. What do the dumb idiots in MCPS do? Why lets expand an under enrolled school and bus kids in who don't want to go there and lets build a program that we want and none of the residents wants.

You should be ashamed of yourself. Really ashamed.

Um, my kid might want a career readiness program. And SVHS is closer to us than Edison.

[Anonymous]

Um, my kid might want a career readiness program. And SVHS is closer to us than Edison.

Considering how few up county posters are on these boards. Its highly likely you are not near SVHS but one of the MCPS drones pushing your own projects.

[Anonymous]

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So here is a head scratcher look at the capacity projections for Seneca Valley. It is currently under capacity by 146 yet MCPS is spending money to do an expansion which will wait for it...make it under capacity by 1,280 in 2024.

How is that not complete mismanagement of funds when schools further south and east are bursting at the seems. Clearly the trend is that fewer people want to live up near Seneca Valley and use their schools so why spend precious resources making it bigger when there is so much need elsewhere. Does one of the board members live up there or something?

The expansion at Seneca Valley is to handle the overcrowding at Northwest and Clarksburg. The numbers look like that because the boundaries have not yet been redrawn.

Yup, there is massive overcrowding in the Clarksburg Elementary schools.

Do people in Clarksburg WANT to go to Seneca Valley? Why wouldn't they just expand Clarksburg HS if it is so popular? Why spend money to build capacity at an under capacity, unpopular school and then try to force bus kids there instead of expanding the school lots of people are already choosing? This could backfire big time and people might just move away.

They don't need another career readiness program with all the other needs out there so spending even more money on Seneca Valley to build something that may not be a draw anyway is even dumber.

entitled much? We live in the Northwest boundary and might be redistricted to Seneca Valley. We'll deal with that when/if it happens. And this is not news - its been on the radar for a couple years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Um, my kid might want a career readiness program. And SVHS is closer to us than Edison.

Considering how few up county posters are on these boards. Its highly likely you are not near SVHS but one of the MCPS drones pushing your own projects.

Wow. Not the case at all. We live in the Northwest boundary.

[Anonymous]

I believe Seneca Valley is smaller (number of students) than both Northwest and Clarksburg so it does make some sense to balance the numbers. In my opinion you can't just keep adding on and making certain high schools just bigger and bigger. Do you want your kids going to a HS with 3000 kids??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe Seneca Valley is smaller (number of students) than both Northwest and Clarksburg so it does make some sense to balance the numbers. In my opinion you can't just keep adding on and making certain high schools just bigger and bigger. Do you want your kids going to a HS with 3000 kids??

quick look -- both NW and Clarksburg are about 2000 students while SV is around 1200.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the problem is the implication it doesn't matter if the residents of Clarksburg with the overcrowding don't want to go to Seneca Valley which without them doesn't need to be expanded. People don't like their kids getting used for some other agenda.

If MCPS was flush with money and there were not other more critical needs, it could build more special programs. Seems wrong to divert money for pet projects when there is so much need elsewhere.

The agenda in this case is: expanding high school capacity in the Germantown/Clarksburg area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Um, my kid might want a career readiness program. And SVHS is closer to us than Edison.

Considering how few up county posters are on these boards. Its highly likely you are not near SVHS but one of the MCPS drones pushing your own projects.

Hi! *waves*

-parent with a kid at Clarksburg HS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They can relieve the overcrowding South and East by bussing to less crowded nearby schools. For example, the extra capacity at BCC can easily accommodate a few neighborhoods just east of Chevy Chase currently zoned for Einstein and Blair.

Keep dreaming!

Or send them to one of the other silver spring schools like Kennedy, they would feel more at home there anyway.

[Anonymous]

Hi! (Waves)

Another Northwest parent concerned about redistricting used as a social experiment on our children in order for some MCPS BOE official to become a congress(wo)man based on marginal and meaningless improvement in achievement gap in Seneca Valley.

Yes, we will do our best to protest any gerrymandering ideas by the BOE. It may not help, but we will try. If it does not help, we'll move at a loss of property value. We did not raise our children to become stepping stones for someone's political agenda. We may not end up winning this fight, but neither will the BOE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi! (Waves)

Another Northwest parent concerned about redistricting used as a social experiment on our children in order for some MCPS BOE official to become a congress(wo)man based on marginal and meaningless improvement in achievement gap in Seneca Valley.

Yes, we will do our best to protest any gerrymandering ideas by the BOE. It may not help, but we will try. If it does not help, we'll move at a loss of property value. We did not raise our children to become stepping stones for someone's political agenda. We may not end up winning this fight, but neither will the BOE.

Have you looked at the existing Northwest HS boundaries?

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/NorthwestHS.pdf

They are ALREADY "gerrymandered". People complained about it bitterly in before Northwest HS opened: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/09/15/montgomery-struggles-with-school-borders/93e60665-4a07-4a6e-aff7-e0282a064d8c/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f40b70f00011

The "social experiment", in this case, is rearranging students in Clarksburg and Germantown among 3 high schools so that the high schools aren't over capacity. That doesn't sound very radical to me.

But if you can't stand it and want to move, that's your choice. MCPS and the Board of Education do not, and should not, consider the effect of their boundary recommendations on your property values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi! (Waves)

Another Northwest parent concerned about redistricting used as a social experiment on our children in order for some MCPS BOE official to become a congress(wo)man based on marginal and meaningless improvement in achievement gap in Seneca Valley.

Yes, we will do our best to protest any gerrymandering ideas by the BOE. It may not help, but we will try. If it does not help, we'll move at a loss of property value. We did not raise our children to become stepping stones for someone's political agenda. We may not end up winning this fight, but neither will the BOE.

How is balancing numbers a social agenda? Both Clarksburg and Northwest are huge and overcapacity while Seneca Valley is smaller.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi! (Waves)

Another Northwest parent concerned about redistricting used as a social experiment on our children in order for some MCPS BOE official to become a congress(wo)man based on marginal and meaningless improvement in achievement gap in Seneca Valley.

Yes, we will do our best to protest any gerrymandering ideas by the BOE. It may not help, but we will try. If it does not help, we'll move at a loss of property value. We did not raise our children to become stepping stones for someone's political agenda. We may not end up winning this fight, but neither will the BOE.

+1 except we're Clarksburg parents. We moved to Clarksburg for the community and the schools. Not going to be subjected to some social experiment but we'll see what happens.

[Anonymous]

The western part of the county really needs to jettison Rockville and the DCC. These are such a drag on our resources.