Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study

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The schools will be different after the boundaries are redrawn. A good school now might not be as good after and vice versa.

It's not the school itself that matters. If Kentlands has great students then whatever school they are at will reflect that.

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Is it the same as the Woodward boundary study, where option #1 is all about stability, #2 about utilization, #3 about demographics, and #4 about proximity?

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I wonder if they asked AI to do this

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Anonymous wrote:Do any of the options redone kids from “better” schools to “worse” schools? (As roughly indicated by test scores)

Moving Kentlands/Lakelands from QO to Gaithersburg is doing exactly that!

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at the articulation data, options 2 and 4 will create a mess with split articulations. I really hope they decide against options with so much disruption.

Yeah I don’t know why on earth MCPS thinks so many split articulated ESs are ok?

I think some split articulations get introduced and some get resolved with these options. This is going to be a mess no matter what happens.

Right but some options (like option 1) are far better than others (like 2 & 4) in terms of messiness and split articulations.

Option 1 introduces massive split articulations between Hoover MS and three different high schools, among other issues. There are no clean options.

Oh, I agree, and I wish they had cleaner options. I just find the split articulations in 2 and 4 pretty overwhelming. Looking at the articulation charts, with option 1, I see only two elementary schools that get divided up. But with option 2, it looks like there are about 20.

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Anonymous wrote:They're not gonna move Kentlands/Lakelands to gaithersburg high. Way too much money and influence there for them to do that. (not to mention it would be insane logistically)

Way to much money to move? That might be a goal re balancing out farms and other indicators.

moving kentlands to gaithersburg wouldnt rebalance farms. literally everyone in the neighborhood would either move or go private.

Same for Chevy chase and Farmland. There’s a better way to rebalance FARMs - moving the premier magnet programs.

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Anonymous wrote:They're not gonna move Kentlands/Lakelands to gaithersburg high. Way too much money and influence there for them to do that. (not to mention it would be insane logistically)

Way to much money to move? That might be a goal re balancing out farms and other indicators.

moving kentlands to gaithersburg wouldnt rebalance farms. literally everyone in the neighborhood would either move or go private.

Same for Chevy chase and Farmland. There’s a better way to rebalance FARMs - moving the premier magnet programs.

Or maybe that’s why they picked those neighborhoods?

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if they asked AI to do this

It must be the Chinese version.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it the same as the Woodward boundary study, where option #1 is all about stability, #2 about utilization, #3 about demographics, and #4 about proximity?

Oh interesting, this does seem to line up with those. So which of these factors are most important?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it the same as the Woodward boundary study, where option #1 is all about stability, #2 about utilization, #3 about demographics, and #4 about proximity?

Oh interesting, this does seem to line up with those. So which of these factors are most important?

The real options will likely be a balance of multiple factors. So it's kinda dumb to make a first set of options that each only really prioritize one factor.

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We are at Stone Mill, and it looks like all 4 options are very different. Our current Cabin John and Wootton combination is not one of the 4 options!!

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Anonymous wrote:We are at Stone Mill, and it looks like all 4 options are very different. Our current Cabin John and Wootton combination is not one of the 4 options!!

Stone mill here as well, we fare pretty well with these options.

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Anonymous wrote:We are at Stone Mill, and it looks like all 4 options are very different. Our current Cabin John and Wootton combination is not one of the 4 options!!

Stone mill here as well, we fare pretty well with these options.

Not sure which part of Stone Mill you live in, it seems like number 2 is the best option for the old neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Am I reading this right ? Cabin Branch elementary school would feed into Poolesville High School. Really ? Have not they considered the distance

It's not much further than where they go now which is Seneca Valley.

There is other side of the cabin branch (newly developed) which has Clarksburg high school now.

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Same stone mill, I vote for #2 as well!

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Anonymous wrote:We are at Stone Mill, and it looks like all 4 options are very different. Our current Cabin John and Wootton combination is not one of the 4 options!!

Stone mill here as well, we fare pretty well with these options.

Not sure which part of Stone Mill you live in, it seems like number 2 is the best option for the old neighborhood.