Elementary school boundary studies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The members you consider to be unscrupulous are no longer on the board. The superintendent from 2018 is no longer the superintendent. The revised policy FAA is the policy now. It was linked earlier in this thread. It is not on the agenda for further revision, as people who have been keeping an eye on the Policy Management Committee would know. You are obsessing about things that are in the past, and you are not helping your cause by repeatedly inserting these obsessions into every thread you can. Even if people do agree with some of your criticisms, your tone and your tactics here are so off-putting, I don't know what you think you're accomplishing.

I'm letting people know about the crazy policy change that was made in an unscrupulous manner and encouraging people to keep a close eye on the BOE. I'm also letting people know that the BOE will probably take up the busing mantle once Covid has been dealt with. I also don't want people to be surprised when wacky boundaries are created to accommodate the elevated diversity factor in the boundary policy as we saw in Clarksburg.

As for unscrupulous people on the BOE, Lynne Harris lobbied for busing as MCCPTA president just a few months before announcing her candidacy for BOE even though MCCPTA had voted NOT to support that action. So there are definitely pro-busers on the BOE.

My kids are in high school so Covid delayed things long enough for them to get through school. So I'm doing all this for everyone else.
OK, you've done your job. We know.

The horse is dead. Save your strength for when they actually propose all this busing you're concerned about rather than trying to gin up outrage. (Or just give up the gin.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm letting people know about the crazy policy change that was made in an unscrupulous manner and encouraging people to keep a close eye on the BOE. I'm also letting people know that the BOE will probably take up the busing mantle once Covid has been dealt with. I also don't want people to be surprised when wacky boundaries are created to accommodate the elevated diversity factor in the boundary policy as we saw in Clarksburg.

As for unscrupulous people on the BOE, Lynne Harris lobbied for busing as MCCPTA president just a few months before announcing her candidacy for BOE even though MCCPTA had voted NOT to support that action. So there are definitely pro-busers on the BOE.

My kids are in high school so Covid delayed things long enough for them to get through school. So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

OK, you've done your job. We know.

The horse is dead. Save your strength for when they actually propose all this busing you're concerned about rather than trying to gin up outrage. (Or just give up the gin.)

(Hate when that happens!)

[Anonymous]

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You wokes are participating in this discussion and you live on the other side of the county. There's no way you could resist a new boundary thread.

Do you live in Clarksburg?

DP. I live in Clarksburg, and I wish that this obsessed poster who says the same thing on thread after thread after thread after thread would stay the heck off this thread.

Were your kids bused or were they spared?

My kids were - and still would be - bused to Clarksburg ES. Almost every student at Clarksburg ES is bused to school, because the school's entire walk zone consists of 16 townhouses on Deets Mill Court. The students on the other side of 355 are in the walk zone for Little Bennett, and the students on the other side of Stringtown Road are all in the bus zone.

Now hush, the adults are talking.

OK, so you weren't one of the families whose kids are schlepped 20 extra minutes per trip each day. No wonder you aren't concerned about busing. The rest of us are keeping our eye on the BOE and MCPS.

Everyone posting here watches the BoE. Some people just obsess and rehash single topics, derailing thread after thread, while others try to discuss more things with more nuance.

Unfortunately almost noone here knew to watch the discussions about the boundary policy being changed to make diversity the most important factor because the BOE never notifilied the public about these changes. We have to make sure that sort of thing never happen again. The best way to do that is to keep an eye on unscrupulous BOE members.

And as I said earlier, we can't have a discussion about "school boundary studies" without the boundary policy can we? That wouldn't be logical. I know you prefer lived experience and other ways of knowing but the rest of us prefer logic.

The members you consider to be unscrupulous are no longer on the board. The superintendent from 2018 is no longer the superintendent. The revised policy FAA is the policy now. It was linked earlier in this thread. It is not on the agenda for further revision, as people who have been keeping an eye on the Policy Management Committee would know. You are obsessing about things that are in the past, and you are not helping your cause by repeatedly inserting these obsessions into every thread you can. Even if people do agree with some of your criticisms, your tone and your tactics here are so off-putting, I don't know what you think you're accomplishing.

I'm letting people know about the crazy policy change that was made in an unscrupulous manner and encouraging people to keep a close eye on the BOE. I'm also letting people know that the BOE will probably take up the busing mantle once Covid has been dealt with. I also don't want people to be surprised when wacky boundaries are created to accommodate the elevated diversity factor in the boundary policy as we saw in Clarksburg.

As for unscrupulous people on the BOE, Lynne Harris lobbied for busing as MCCPTA president just a few months before announcing her candidacy for BOE even though MCCPTA had voted NOT to support that action. So there are definitely pro-busers on the BOE.

My kids are in high school so Covid delayed things long enough for them to get through school. So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

Lynne Harris was elected to the BOE in 2020 by a majority of MoCo voters. Sorry your candidate didn't win, but it's time to move on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm letting people know about the crazy policy change that was made in an unscrupulous manner and encouraging people to keep a close eye on the BOE. I'm also letting people know that the BOE will probably take up the busing mantle once Covid has been dealt with. I also don't want people to be surprised when wacky boundaries are created to accommodate the elevated diversity factor in the boundary policy as we saw in Clarksburg.

As for unscrupulous people on the BOE, Lynne Harris lobbied for busing as MCCPTA president just a few months before announcing her candidacy for BOE even though MCCPTA had voted NOT to support that action. So there are definitely pro-busers on the BOE.

My kids are in high school so Covid delayed things long enough for them to get through school. So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

OK, you've done your job. We know.

The horse is dead. Save your strength for when they actually propose all this busing you're concerned about rather than trying to gin up outrage. (Or just give up the gin.)

(Hate when that happens!)

Man the tinfoil hat is cutting off circulation to their brain. Nobody is going to bus kids. I'm all for adjusting boundaries to reduce overcrowding and even improve diversity when possible but if they bus kids all over people will show up with torches and pitchforks. It's just not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

In that case, you can stop now. After all, why waste your time and efforts on people who aren't grateful and don't listen to you? Maybe look for a more rewarding hobby, like gardening or macrame.

New people come here all the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

In that case, you can stop now. After all, why waste your time and efforts on people who aren't grateful and don't listen to you? Maybe look for a more rewarding hobby, like gardening or macrame.

You want people to stop paying attention to the BOE? Not a chance. That's how we got into this mess (a diversity-fist boundary policy) in the first place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The members you consider to be unscrupulous are no longer on the board. The superintendent from 2018 is no longer the superintendent. The revised policy FAA is the policy now. It was linked earlier in this thread. It is not on the agenda for further revision, as people who have been keeping an eye on the Policy Management Committee would know. You are obsessing about things that are in the past, and you are not helping your cause by repeatedly inserting these obsessions into every thread you can. Even if people do agree with some of your criticisms, your tone and your tactics here are so off-putting, I don't know what you think you're accomplishing.

I'm letting people know about the crazy policy change that was made in an unscrupulous manner and encouraging people to keep a close eye on the BOE. I'm also letting people know that the BOE will probably take up the busing mantle once Covid has been dealt with. I also don't want people to be surprised when wacky boundaries are created to accommodate the elevated diversity factor in the boundary policy as we saw in Clarksburg.

As for unscrupulous people on the BOE, Lynne Harris lobbied for busing as MCCPTA president just a few months before announcing her candidacy for BOE even though MCCPTA had voted NOT to support that action. So there are definitely pro-busers on the BOE.

My kids are in high school so Covid delayed things long enough for them to get through school. So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

OK, you've done your job. We know.

The horse is dead. Save your strength for when they actually propose all this busing you're concerned about rather than trying to gin up outrage. (Or just give up the gin.)
As the people in Clarksburg found out, if you wait until they propose busing in your cluster it'll be too late. They'll kick off the boundary studies for Crown/Woodward pretty soon and that's going to affect a bunch of clusters. People better start paying attention now. And if they are smart, start electing BOE members who oppose busing like 90+ % of the surveyed county did in the boundary analysis.

[Anonymous]

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As the people in Clarksburg found out, if you wait until they propose busing in your cluster it'll be too late. They'll kick off the boundary studies for Crown/Woodward pretty soon and that's going to affect a bunch of clusters. People better start paying attention now. And if they are smart, start electing BOE members who oppose busing like 90+ % of the surveyed county did in the boundary analysis.

Please stop speaking on behalf of people who live in a place you don't live in. And lay off the gin.

[Anonymous]

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You wokes are participating in this discussion and you live on the other side of the county. There's no way you could resist a new boundary thread.

Do you live in Clarksburg?

DP. I live in Clarksburg, and I wish that this obsessed poster who says the same thing on thread after thread after thread after thread would stay the heck off this thread.

Were your kids bused or were they spared?

My kids were - and still would be - bused to Clarksburg ES. Almost every student at Clarksburg ES is bused to school, because the school's entire walk zone consists of 16 townhouses on Deets Mill Court. The students on the other side of 355 are in the walk zone for Little Bennett, and the students on the other side of Stringtown Road are all in the bus zone.

Now hush, the adults are talking.

OK, so you weren't one of the families whose kids are schlepped 20 extra minutes per trip each day. No wonder you aren't concerned about busing. The rest of us are keeping our eye on the BOE and MCPS.

Everyone posting here watches the BoE. Some people just obsess and rehash single topics, derailing thread after thread, while others try to discuss more things with more nuance.

Unfortunately almost noone here knew to watch the discussions about the boundary policy being changed to make diversity the most important factor because the BOE never notifilied the public about these changes. We have to make sure that sort of thing never happen again. The best way to do that is to keep an eye on unscrupulous BOE members.

And as I said earlier, we can't have a discussion about "school boundary studies" without the boundary policy can we? That wouldn't be logical. I know you prefer lived experience and other ways of knowing but the rest of us prefer logic.

The members you consider to be unscrupulous are no longer on the board. The superintendent from 2018 is no longer the superintendent. The revised policy FAA is the policy now. It was linked earlier in this thread. It is not on the agenda for further revision, as people who have been keeping an eye on the Policy Management Committee would know. You are obsessing about things that are in the past, and you are not helping your cause by repeatedly inserting these obsessions into every thread you can. Even if people do agree with some of your criticisms, your tone and your tactics here are so off-putting, I don't know what you think you're accomplishing.

I'm letting people know about the crazy policy change that was made in an unscrupulous manner and encouraging people to keep a close eye on the BOE. I'm also letting people know that the BOE will probably take up the busing mantle once Covid has been dealt with. I also don't want people to be surprised when wacky boundaries are created to accommodate the elevated diversity factor in the boundary policy as we saw in Clarksburg.

As for unscrupulous people on the BOE, Lynne Harris lobbied for busing as MCCPTA president just a few months before announcing her candidacy for BOE even though MCCPTA had voted NOT to support that action. So there are definitely pro-busers on the BOE.

My kids are in high school so Covid delayed things long enough for them to get through school. So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

Lynne Harris was elected to the BOE in 2020 by a majority of MoCo voters. Sorry your candidate didn't win, but it's time to move on.

And we may all pay the price for that. At least the rest of you will. My kid graduates in a few years so he's most likely out of reach of Lynne's busing plans.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm letting people know about the crazy policy change that was made in an unscrupulous manner and encouraging people to keep a close eye on the BOE. I'm also letting people know that the BOE will probably take up the busing mantle once Covid has been dealt with. I also don't want people to be surprised when wacky boundaries are created to accommodate the elevated diversity factor in the boundary policy as we saw in Clarksburg.

As for unscrupulous people on the BOE, Lynne Harris lobbied for busing as MCCPTA president just a few months before announcing her candidacy for BOE even though MCCPTA had voted NOT to support that action. So there are definitely pro-busers on the BOE.

My kids are in high school so Covid delayed things long enough for them to get through school. So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

OK, you've done your job. We know.

The horse is dead. Save your strength for when they actually propose all this busing you're concerned about rather than trying to gin up outrage. (Or just give up the gin.)

(Hate when that happens!)

Man the tinfoil hat is cutting off circulation to their brain. Nobody is going to bus kids. I'm all for adjusting boundaries to reduce overcrowding and even improve diversity when possible but if they bus kids all over people will show up with torches and pitchforks. It's just not going to happen.

So you don't think there will be busing but you support "adjusting boundaries to reduce overcrowding and even improve diversity" which equals busing? Do you even hear yourself?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
As the people in Clarksburg found out, if you wait until they propose busing in your cluster it'll be too late. They'll kick off the boundary studies for Crown/Woodward pretty soon and that's going to affect a bunch of clusters. People better start paying attention now. And if they are smart, start electing BOE members who oppose busing like 90+ % of the surveyed county did in the boundary analysis.

Please stop speaking on behalf of people who live in a place you don't live in. And lay off the gin.

I live in Montgomery County. Clarksburg is in Montgomery County. So we all live in the same school district.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
As the people in Clarksburg found out, if you wait until they propose busing in your cluster it'll be too late. They'll kick off the boundary studies for Crown/Woodward pretty soon and that's going to affect a bunch of clusters. People better start paying attention now. And if they are smart, start electing BOE members who oppose busing like 90+ % of the surveyed county did in the boundary analysis.

Please stop speaking on behalf of people who live in a place you don't live in. And lay off the gin.

I live in Montgomery County. Clarksburg is in Montgomery County. So we all live in the same school district.

You don't live in Clarksburg.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

In that case, you can stop now. After all, why waste your time and efforts on people who aren't grateful and don't listen to you? Maybe look for a more rewarding hobby, like gardening or macrame.

You want people to stop paying attention to the BOE? Not a chance. That's how we got into this mess (a diversity-fist boundary policy) in the first place.

We absolutely do want people to pay attention to the BOE. But that is a lot different than paying attention to your rants.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm letting people know about the crazy policy change that was made in an unscrupulous manner and encouraging people to keep a close eye on the BOE. I'm also letting people know that the BOE will probably take up the busing mantle once Covid has been dealt with. I also don't want people to be surprised when wacky boundaries are created to accommodate the elevated diversity factor in the boundary policy as we saw in Clarksburg.

As for unscrupulous people on the BOE, Lynne Harris lobbied for busing as MCCPTA president just a few months before announcing her candidacy for BOE even though MCCPTA had voted NOT to support that action. So there are definitely pro-busers on the BOE.

My kids are in high school so Covid delayed things long enough for them to get through school. So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

OK, you've done your job. We know.

The horse is dead. Save your strength for when they actually propose all this busing you're concerned about rather than trying to gin up outrage. (Or just give up the gin.)

(Hate when that happens!)

Man the tinfoil hat is cutting off circulation to their brain. Nobody is going to bus kids. I'm all for adjusting boundaries to reduce overcrowding and even improve diversity when possible but if they bus kids all over people will show up with torches and pitchforks. It's just not going to happen.

So you don't think there will be busing but you support "adjusting boundaries to reduce overcrowding and even improve diversity" which equals busing? Do you even hear yourself?

What do you want us to call those big yellow things that drive students to and from school every day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: So I'm doing all this for everyone else.

In that case, you can stop now. After all, why waste your time and efforts on people who aren't grateful and don't listen to you? Maybe look for a more rewarding hobby, like gardening or macrame.

You want people to stop paying attention to the BOE? Not a chance. That's how we got into this mess (a diversity-fist boundary policy) in the first place.

We absolutely do want people to pay attention to the BOE. But that is a lot different than paying attention to your rants.

No you don't. You want people to go back to their lives so a handful of woke activists can screw up MCPS even more without people knowing...like they way they (you?) did by altering the boundary policy without alerting the public. This board is a good way to make sure that doesn't happen.