Boundary study (2025 )

[Anonymous]

Some of these split articulate elementary schools. Which is ridiculous in my opinion as an ES parent and does not contribute to community unity.

[Anonymous]

For all four options it would be helpful to understand what each does to the budget. Option #1 seems to mean we need fewer portables, and our bus budget would remain the same(ish). Option #3 appear to require more buses as almost every kid would have a longer commute. Imagine living on Grubb road and passing BCC to go to Whitman. Option #3 also appears to mean Kennedy kids coming from Rockville will jam up Randolph road trying to get to school (passing Wheaton on the way). Option #3 seems to be a budget buster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these split articulate elementary schools. Which is ridiculous in my opinion as an ES parent and does not contribute to community unity.

We have many split-articulated elementary schools already.

[Anonymous]

Option 1 makes the most sense and what they will probably pick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all four options it would be helpful to understand what each does to the budget. Option #1 seems to mean we need fewer portables, and our bus budget would remain the same(ish). Option #3 appear to require more buses as almost every kid would have a longer commute. Imagine living on Grubb road and passing BCC to go to Whitman. Option #3 also appears to mean Kennedy kids coming from Rockville will jam up Randolph road trying to get to school (passing Wheaton on the way). Option #3 seems to be a budget buster.

We are a Farmland family who has had sports practices at Kennedy. It is indeed a nightmare getting there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of these split articulate elementary schools. Which is ridiculous in my opinion as an ES parent and does not contribute to community unity.

We have many split-articulated elementary schools already.

We do. Do why not use this process to minimize that not add more because we have them now.

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Anonymous wrote:It feels like they are offering a lot of bad options to justify their ask for money for a new building at Edison.

Not a new building, part of the existing building.

I didn't really understand how they want to do this. Do you know what they mean by a "shell" and what's needed to make it happen?

Honestly, Wheaton is already overcrowded so if this were easy or cheap they would have done it already. Gmafb. This is just a distraction from the fact they want to screw over Wheaton because us Latinos don't complain as much as the Whites.

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Anonymous wrote:It feels like they are offering a lot of bad options to justify their ask for money for a new building at Edison.

Not a new building, part of the existing building.

I didn't really understand how they want to do this. Do you know what they mean by a "shell" and what's needed to make it happen?

Honestly, Wheaton is already overcrowded so if this were easy or cheap they would have done it already. Gmafb. This is just a distraction from the fact they want to screw over Wheaton because us Latinos don't complain as much as the Whites.

Then start complaining! You all have THREE representatives on the BOE (Karla, Rita and Grace). What's your excuse?

[Anonymous]

It looks like we are moving to more middle school and high school choice options and fewer kids going to their zoned MS and HS anyway. So that's a reason not to worry too much about split articulation, especially when there are so many tradeoffs and only so many things you can really prioritize.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It feels like they are offering a lot of bad options to justify their ask for money for a new building at Edison.

Not a new building, part of the existing building.

I didn't really understand how they want to do this. Do you know what they mean by a "shell" and what's needed to make it happen?

Honestly, Wheaton is already overcrowded so if this were easy or cheap they would have done it already. Gmafb. This is just a distraction from the fact they want to screw over Wheaton because us Latinos don't complain as much as the Whites.

Then start complaining! You all have THREE representatives on the BOE (Karla, Rita and Grace). What's your excuse?

I do complain! But my voice alone is not as loud. And frankly, the BOE should not simply react to the squeakiest wheels because those will always be the people with the most resources. Don't you dare blame me for that.

[Anonymous]

So overall how do people feel about boundaries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks like we are moving to more middle school and high school choice options and fewer kids going to their zoned MS and HS anyway. So that's a reason not to worry too much about split articulation, especially when there are so many tradeoffs and only so many things you can really prioritize.

I hate choice options especially for middle school. I went to a choice school growing up, and my oldest went to a choice school for Hs (against my advice). It’s olay for some kids (my oldest had particular atypical things that made it work for her), but I do not think it should be the dominant paradigm. People I know in NYC absolutely hate that system and I think it’s even worse here where we don’t have strong public transit to get kids to schools outside their neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So overall how do people feel about boundaries?

Boundaries are bad and artificial so I am against them 😆

[Anonymous]

Who decided weird islands should proliferate?

[Anonymous]

There should be only two considerations. Geography and utilization.