What ever happened to Crown HS?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

...Crown is west of 270.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

This only takes geography into account. Once the BOE starts race-balancong the schools as per the boundary policy, they'll "need" to bus kids all over the area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

This only takes geography into account. Once the BOE starts race-balancong the schools as per the boundary policy, they'll "need" to bus kids all over the area.

Welcome to the MCPS Interactive Boundary Explorer (IBE)! This platform was developed to give the MCPS community an opportunity to interact with the data being analyzed as part of the Districtwide Boundary Analysis, and add their voice to the process. On the IBE, you can get context about this analysis, explore the data yourself using the interactive tool, and add your voice to the process using the survey.

This website is the main vehicle for collecting public feedback and insights during Phase 2 of the Districtwide Boundary Analysis. After spending time exploring this website, please take 10-15 minutes to fill out the survey.

The input gathered through this survey will be analyzed and included in the final report to the Board of Education. To make sure your response is counted in the final report and analysis, please fill out the survey by December 1, 2020. Note: the survey will remain online through the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

There is one spot west of 270 that's in. It looks like the area North of 28, South of Fields Rd, West of Shady Grove, and East of Muddy Branch-Great Seneca-Sam Eig will be part of Crown HS.

East of 270, north of Redland Road is in, most of MV is out, and a huge chunk of Laytonsville is in?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

This only takes geography into account. Once the BOE starts race-balancong the schools as per the boundary policy, they'll "need" to bus kids all over the area.

Welcome to the MCPS Interactive Boundary Explorer (IBE)! This platform was developed to give the MCPS community an opportunity to interact with the data being analyzed as part of the Districtwide Boundary Analysis, and add their voice to the process. On the IBE, you can get context about this analysis, explore the data yourself using the interactive tool, and add your voice to the process using the survey.

This website is the main vehicle for collecting public feedback and insights during Phase 2 of the Districtwide Boundary Analysis. After spending time exploring this website, please take 10-15 minutes to fill out the survey.

The input gathered through this survey will be analyzed and included in the final report to the Board of Education. To make sure your response is counted in the final report and analysis, please fill out the survey by December 1, 2020. Note: the survey will remain online through the end of the year.

Please. The data was hidden. There's no way that MCPS can claim they were seeking public comments. Sooo sneaky!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

There is one spot west of 270 that's in. It looks like the area North of 28, South of Fields Rd, West of Shady Grove, and East of Muddy Branch-Great Seneca-Sam Eig will be part of Crown HS.

East of 270, north of Redland Road is in, most of MV is out, and a huge chunk of Laytonsville is in?

People. Nothing is in or out. The boundary study hasn't even started yet and won't be finalized until 2024-25.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

This only takes geography into account. Once the BOE starts race-balancong the schools as per the boundary policy, they'll "need" to bus kids all over the area.

Does everyone now agree - it's time to vote out the board? I'm in!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

That is just an outline of the Gaithersburg cluster...which is the cluster that contains the Crown site. Just like the Woodward arrow is pointing to the WJ cluster, which is the cluster that contains the Woodward site. It has nothing to do with the boundaries of the new schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

This only takes geography into account. Once the BOE starts race-balancong the schools as per the boundary policy, they'll "need" to bus kids all over the area.

Does everyone now agree - it's time to vote out the board? I'm in!

It's time to vote out the board, because as part of the districtwide boundary analysis, they put up an interactive tool designed for community members to understand and engage with data related to utilization, diversity, and proximity of schools in MCPS, and then left the tool up after the districtwide boundary analysis was finished? I mean, that's not the conclusion I personally would draw, but you do you, I guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a diagram on https://interactiveboundaryexplorer.com. If you scroll down to "Key Insights", "Utilization" you'll see a diagram that changes on it's own. One of the diagrams it scrolls through ("High School Utilization Rate by Attendance Areas") looks like it reveals the intent for Crown HS. According to the diagram it is intended to primarily cover the areas north of 370 and east of 270. The diagram doesn't show anyone west of 270.

There is one spot west of 270 that's in. It looks like the area North of 28, South of Fields Rd, West of Shady Grove, and East of Muddy Branch-Great Seneca-Sam Eig will be part of Crown HS.

East of 270, north of Redland Road is in, most of MV is out, and a huge chunk of Laytonsville is in?

Specifically what it's in is: the current Gaithersburg HS service area.

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/GaithersburgHS.pdf

[Anonymous]

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Yeah crown will be mix of several split articulated ES/MS zones with no middle school itself. It’s a setting destined for failure. I’m not sure who would like to be rezoned there except Gaithersburg.

Every silver lining has a cloud, for some people.

Sounds like you’re not a parent who has kids that may be rezoned

I'm the PP you're responding to, and you're right! I'm a parent who has kids who have already been rezoned.

I get it. You want more parents to feel the pain you have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If MCPS was totally honest, they would clearly publish maps to all parents, explain where their children would be, then ask each parent to provide an opinion.

The instruction would be clear, such as, "if you live in this part of the map, your ES would be A, your MS would be B, and your HS would be C under Option A"

There would also be clear reasons stated for boundaries such as "the reason why this zone was attached here was that 500 families are in zone A, but zone B only has 50 projected families, so could be transported for less cost to the other ES."

This type of openness and honesty is something that the current MCPS leadership would never do.

Instead of MCPS asking each parent to provide an opinion every time there's a boundary change, how about we elect a smaller group of people to represent us on some sort of board of education, and then this board could vote yes or no on the proposed boundaries?

We tried that already and it isn't working. As an example, I present the diversity-first boundary policy that 90% of the county said they do not like. That's quite the chasm between what the BOE want and what the people want.

There you go again. 90% of a small group of self selected parents who responded to a survey.

[Anonymous]

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I only saw a memo with a bunch of letter-numbers calling them zones. Never even heard of a zone before this memo. It wasn't until after the decision was made that I actually saw maps?

Does anyone know where every MCPS zone is published? Or have a link to them? I can only find the boundary maps online.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/boundary.aspx

This doesn't show a map of zones (ex. "zone X3"). I'm looking for a map that shows all zones and names them.

The zones are only created if and when a boundary study is begun. When a study includes elementary schools, they will create these smaller zones within each school's existing boundaries. If it's a high school boundary study, they will often use the elementary schools rather than creating zones. That is what happened in the Clarksburg/Northwest/Seneca Valley study, which had these provisions:

• No elementary school boundaries will change as part of this boundary study.
• Elementary school service areas will be used as the building blocks for possible middle school and high school options.

[Anonymous]

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I only saw a memo with a bunch of letter-numbers calling them zones. Never even heard of a zone before this memo. It wasn't until after the decision was made that I actually saw maps?

Does anyone know where every MCPS zone is published? Or have a link to them? I can only find the boundary maps online.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/boundary.aspx

This doesn't show a map of zones (ex. "zone X3"). I'm looking for a map that shows all zones and names them.

The zones are only created if and when a boundary study is begun. When a study includes elementary schools, they will create these smaller zones within each school's existing boundaries. If it's a high school boundary study, they will often use the elementary schools rather than creating zones. That is what happened in the Clarksburg/Northwest/Seneca Valley study, which had these provisions:

• No elementary school boundaries will change as part of this boundary study.
• Elementary school service areas will be used as the building blocks for possible middle school and high school options.

In that study, they did end up using smaller "building blocks" for several of the schools.

[Anonymous]

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Yeah crown will be mix of several split articulated ES/MS zones with no middle school itself. It’s a setting destined for failure. I’m not sure who would like to be rezoned there except Gaithersburg.

Every silver lining has a cloud, for some people.

Sounds like you’re not a parent who has kids that may be rezoned

I'm the PP you're responding to, and you're right! I'm a parent who has kids who have already been rezoned.

I get it. You want more parents to feel the pain you have.

PP you're responding to, again. What pain? We're happy with the new school.