Initial boundary options for Crown/Damascus study
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Anonymous
This is also happening in my RPES neighborhood. In the past 3 years, 3 of our long timer neighbors literally around my house have moved. The people who moved in all have young kids. When we first moved here, we were one of a handful of families with school aged kids. Our bus stop was just us. Now a days, the bus stop is teeming with kids. After my kids hit MS, I stopped going to the bus stop. One morning I drove by, and I was floored at how many kids there were. This is part of the problem. As retirees move out, more families with children will move into the sfh, thus impacting the capacity of the schools. This will impact ES all the way up to HS. Not to mention all the multi unit housing that's being built all over MoCo. |
Anonymous
We absolutely chose an RM neighborhood over Wooton when buying houses. Both were affordable to us. We had 1 in IB and one not. Both had great experiences. |
Anonymous
I would like to sign and share this petition but can't find the option to sign it when I click the link. Can't figure out if it's a me problem or a problem with the petition itself. |
Anonymous
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52 portable classrooms in use in high schools in the study area:
Clarksburg: 13 Churchill: 4 RM: 9 Northwest: 11 QO: 15 https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP26_AppendixH.pdf |
Anonymous
Why do you think Crown will not be a good school? Its literally brand new and when a brand new school opens you get the best principal and teachers. Right now it is an empty building so what about it makes you think you will lose "what you moved here for" Some of the arguments on this thread make sense, but this one does not. |
Anonymous
Alright, move students in these schools to crown. Wootton doesn’t need to be split up. |
Anonymous
These portables not only take away space for use on the campus, but make kids travel times between classes longer, not to mention its makes safety (which everyone is always clamoring about) more difficult. |
Anonymous
And they cost money which could be better spent. |
Anonymous
I think I figured it out, it looks like the petition was already closed, it needs to be reposted to allow more people to sign it. |
Anonymous
That’s not how it works. The boundaries are changed to make the pattern and articulation more workable for all. Not the current options take into account a lot of key things like space for special programs or the countless new construction projects going on. The Upcounty definitely wants to know who is coming up with these crazy ideas. |
Anonymous
This is absolutely not true. All four options mess up the pattern and create more split articulations, especially option 2 and 4. It’s a nightmare and I can’t imagine how MCPS manages so many different split articulations with almost every school splitting up. |
Anonymous
Although I don’t love it, I feel the same. The kids will still be at a W school and my property value remains the same. It’s a win for us. This "W" school thing is such BS. I was at a non-W MCPS high school and I have a fantastic career and multiple gradate degrees. I have friends who went to "W" schools and are no more successful than I am, many less successful. Even the "worst" high school in Montgomery County is better than 99% of the schools around this country. People need to chill out. Your kids will be just fine at Crown. There are kids at RM and Rockville and Gaithersburg who will go on to be doctors, lawyer, and scientists. People need to get over themselves. My spouse went to one of the high schools that many people on this board declare as one of the worst in the county. And we've lived in areas that feed into the not so great schools. As well as know people who have worked in multiple schools and can compare how well the students at the different schools know the actual content for the same course. Based on what we've seen and heard, schools in the county are not the same. My spouse always talks about how it was a shock to go to college and see how they were far behind the rest of their classmates. And they were considered pretty advanced at their high school. The same goes for some of the kids we've seen in our previous neighbhorhoods. They studied all the time, played a string instrument, got straight As in all of their AP classes. You could easily plug them into any W school. But they couldn't pass any of the standardized tests and didn't go the traditional route after high school. I see it as the school and school system failing those students because the students and their families made every effort in their academics. Yeah we do know of some cases of students who come out and do just as well or better than other people that went to a W school. But some of those people do say that they're the exception. This is why having our kids go to a W school was a big deal to our family. So that they could have a better education and opportunity then we did. With all that being said, I don't think Crown will be bad school and I'm not totally against sending my kids there. We did pay the premium to live where we do. When we were looking, it was about 50k more than an equivalent home in the New Mark Commons area and about 100k more than a home in a neighborhood a little bit further down Darnestown Road near where that new park is. While disappointed, the home values aren't that big of a factor for me. The major factor for me is that my kids would be a small handful of students split from their elementary school classmates. As well as being designated in a walk zone that requires a 45 minute walk along and crossing busy commuter routes. |
Anonymous
Not to mention that most of these W parents sneering at RM will soon attend schools with similar demographics, and in the case of WJ parents who will be redistricted to Woodward, a school that is far more socio-economically disadvantaged than RM. |
Anonymous
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If the price you want to pay for a building to live in is tied so closely to the school it is zoned for, maybe that same logic should factor in the fact that those school zones can change.
Oh, wait, it already does. In a world where those zones never can never change, the premium would be much higher. Consider yourself to have been operating at a discount. |
Anonymous
That was option 4 and it was to bus us to twinbrook |