New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton

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Anonymous wrote:^^^In addition, there is the stability of assignment factor, whereby areas that just got reassigned to SV in the upcounty boundary study wouldn't then get reassigned away from SV a few years later.

There are a good number of kids at SV now who really need to be attending Clarksburg. As an SV Germantown parent, I was shocked to see how far some of those kids live from the SVHS community. I thought they were there for a special program.

Good luck with that. SV is underenrolled no chance

The bigger issue is that Clarksburg HS is overcrowded and getting moreso each year. More kids needs to be rezoned from Clarksburg, not to Clarksburg.

Start with all the kids at Clarksburg HS who live close to Watkins Mill. They should be going to Watkins Mill instead of Clarksburg. Then some of the Hallie Wells kids can go to Damascus. I really think they messed up the upcounty boundary study which was supposed to fix the overcrowding at Clarksburg (it didn't) but instead the BOE decided it was more important to fix the demographic issues between Neelsville and Rocky Hill; and the 3 high schools.

They've been zoned for Clarksburg since Clarksburg opened in 2006. And people in Clarksburg have been saying, "We don't want those poor kids from over there in our school" since 2006.

I think most people in Clarksburg are just wondering why they can't go to a school that's less than 3 miles away from them. Anyway, regardless of what happens, I hope they use this opportunity to optimize boundaries now that they are including 11 high schools. There's definite room for improvement.

I really feel it’s delusional that people here believe the boundary study will optimize the distance. We’re going to see more busing for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^In addition, there is the stability of assignment factor, whereby areas that just got reassigned to SV in the upcounty boundary study wouldn't then get reassigned away from SV a few years later.

There are a good number of kids at SV now who really need to be attending Clarksburg. As an SV Germantown parent, I was shocked to see how far some of those kids live from the SVHS community. I thought they were there for a special program.

Good luck with that. SV is underenrolled no chance

The bigger issue is that Clarksburg HS is overcrowded and getting moreso each year. More kids needs to be rezoned from Clarksburg, not to Clarksburg.

Start with all the kids at Clarksburg HS who live close to Watkins Mill. They should be going to Watkins Mill instead of Clarksburg. Then some of the Hallie Wells kids can go to Damascus. I really think they messed up the upcounty boundary study which was supposed to fix the overcrowding at Clarksburg (it didn't) but instead the BOE decided it was more important to fix the demographic issues between Neelsville and Rocky Hill; and the 3 high schools.

They've been zoned for Clarksburg since Clarksburg opened in 2006. And people in Clarksburg have been saying, "We don't want those poor kids from over there in our school" since 2006.

I think most people in Clarksburg are just wondering why they can't go to a school that's less than 3 miles away from them. Anyway, regardless of what happens, I hope they use this opportunity to optimize boundaries now that they are including 11 high schools. There's definite room for improvement.

I really feel it’s delusional that people here believe the boundary study will optimize the distance. We’re going to see more busing for sure.

The boundary study won't optimize for distance. You know why? Because there are four factors in boundary studies, and it is impossible to optimize for four things. The boundary study will balance the four factors.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^In addition, there is the stability of assignment factor, whereby areas that just got reassigned to SV in the upcounty boundary study wouldn't then get reassigned away from SV a few years later.

There are a good number of kids at SV now who really need to be attending Clarksburg. As an SV Germantown parent, I was shocked to see how far some of those kids live from the SVHS community. I thought they were there for a special program.

Good luck with that. SV is underenrolled no chance

The bigger issue is that Clarksburg HS is overcrowded and getting moreso each year. More kids needs to be rezoned from Clarksburg, not to Clarksburg.

Start with all the kids at Clarksburg HS who live close to Watkins Mill. They should be going to Watkins Mill instead of Clarksburg. Then some of the Hallie Wells kids can go to Damascus. I really think they messed up the upcounty boundary study which was supposed to fix the overcrowding at Clarksburg (it didn't) but instead the BOE decided it was more important to fix the demographic issues between Neelsville and Rocky Hill; and the 3 high schools.

They've been zoned for Clarksburg since Clarksburg opened in 2006. And people in Clarksburg have been saying, "We don't want those poor kids from over there in our school" since 2006.

I think most people in Clarksburg are just wondering why they can't go to a school that's less than 3 miles away from them. Anyway, regardless of what happens, I hope they use this opportunity to optimize boundaries now that they are including 11 high schools. There's definite room for improvement.

I really feel it’s delusional that people here believe the boundary study will optimize the distance. We’re going to see more busing for sure.

The boundary study won't optimize for distance. You know why? Because there are four factors in boundary studies, and it is impossible to optimize for four things. The boundary study will balance the four factors.

Sure. That’s the point. It will only create more wacky boundaries.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^In addition, there is the stability of assignment factor, whereby areas that just got reassigned to SV in the upcounty boundary study wouldn't then get reassigned away from SV a few years later.

There are a good number of kids at SV now who really need to be attending Clarksburg. As an SV Germantown parent, I was shocked to see how far some of those kids live from the SVHS community. I thought they were there for a special program.

Good luck with that. SV is underenrolled no chance

The bigger issue is that Clarksburg HS is overcrowded and getting moreso each year. More kids needs to be rezoned from Clarksburg, not to Clarksburg.

Start with all the kids at Clarksburg HS who live close to Watkins Mill. They should be going to Watkins Mill instead of Clarksburg. Then some of the Hallie Wells kids can go to Damascus. I really think they messed up the upcounty boundary study which was supposed to fix the overcrowding at Clarksburg (it didn't) but instead the BOE decided it was more important to fix the demographic issues between Neelsville and Rocky Hill; and the 3 high schools.

They've been zoned for Clarksburg since Clarksburg opened in 2006. And people in Clarksburg have been saying, "We don't want those poor kids from over there in our school" since 2006.

I think most people in Clarksburg are just wondering why they can't go to a school that's less than 3 miles away from them. Anyway, regardless of what happens, I hope they use this opportunity to optimize boundaries now that they are including 11 high schools. There's definite room for improvement.

I really feel it’s delusional that people here believe the boundary study will optimize the distance. We’re going to see more busing for sure.

They could easily reduce busing if they fixed many of the gerrymandered boundaries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^In addition, there is the stability of assignment factor, whereby areas that just got reassigned to SV in the upcounty boundary study wouldn't then get reassigned away from SV a few years later.

There are a good number of kids at SV now who really need to be attending Clarksburg. As an SV Germantown parent, I was shocked to see how far some of those kids live from the SVHS community. I thought they were there for a special program.

Good luck with that. SV is underenrolled no chance

The bigger issue is that Clarksburg HS is overcrowded and getting moreso each year. More kids needs to be rezoned from Clarksburg, not to Clarksburg.

Start with all the kids at Clarksburg HS who live close to Watkins Mill. They should be going to Watkins Mill instead of Clarksburg. Then some of the Hallie Wells kids can go to Damascus. I really think they messed up the upcounty boundary study which was supposed to fix the overcrowding at Clarksburg (it didn't) but instead the BOE decided it was more important to fix the demographic issues between Neelsville and Rocky Hill; and the 3 high schools.

They've been zoned for Clarksburg since Clarksburg opened in 2006. And people in Clarksburg have been saying, "We don't want those poor kids from over there in our school" since 2006.

I think most people in Clarksburg are just wondering why they can't go to a school that's less than 3 miles away from them. Anyway, regardless of what happens, I hope they use this opportunity to optimize boundaries now that they are including 11 high schools. There's definite room for improvement.

I really feel it’s delusional that people here believe the boundary study will optimize the distance. We’re going to see more busing for sure.

The boundary study won't optimize for distance. You know why? Because there are four factors in boundary studies, and it is impossible to optimize for four things. The boundary study will balance the four factors.

Sure. That’s the point. It will only create more wacky boundaries.

No, that's not the point. At minimum, it is equally likely to reduce the number of wacky boundaries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^In addition, there is the stability of assignment factor, whereby areas that just got reassigned to SV in the upcounty boundary study wouldn't then get reassigned away from SV a few years later.

There are a good number of kids at SV now who really need to be attending Clarksburg. As an SV Germantown parent, I was shocked to see how far some of those kids live from the SVHS community. I thought they were there for a special program.

Good luck with that. SV is underenrolled no chance

The bigger issue is that Clarksburg HS is overcrowded and getting moreso each year. More kids needs to be rezoned from Clarksburg, not to Clarksburg.

Start with all the kids at Clarksburg HS who live close to Watkins Mill. They should be going to Watkins Mill instead of Clarksburg. Then some of the Hallie Wells kids can go to Damascus. I really think they messed up the upcounty boundary study which was supposed to fix the overcrowding at Clarksburg (it didn't) but instead the BOE decided it was more important to fix the demographic issues between Neelsville and Rocky Hill; and the 3 high schools.

They've been zoned for Clarksburg since Clarksburg opened in 2006. And people in Clarksburg have been saying, "We don't want those poor kids from over there in our school" since 2006.

This is a really bad reason to not adjust boundaries whether at Clarksburg HS or ANY school. The county has changed and we've grown. MCPS is where we are today because we have been doing this stuff piecemeal and not looking at things holistically.

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Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they don’t close Cold Spring. It’s a fabulous little school. My kids attended it. It’s always been underenrolled but it would be pretty easy to pull an adjacent neighborhood in to fill those seats. It is definitely a rundown and outdated building decades overdue to be renovated or rebuilt. They’ve had it on the list at least since my oldest was in K and now she’s graduating college. They just kept pushing construction back.

They should shift Fallsreach neighborhood to Cold Spring. It was so strange being bused across Falls Road to go to Beverly Farms, when we could have walked to Cold Spring — from a native of MoCo

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Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty.

This. They need to scrap busing and have some type of magnet at every high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

McKnight and the Board just lost Title I money for four schools. That means less resources.

And you want to install a skin color meter on the front door of the schools?

Forget it.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

Busing is a band-aid. I'd rather see MCPS invest in well thought-out programs at specific schools that are attractive and open to students in upcounty/midcounty.

You notice how the two HS magnet programs are in opposite corners of the county that's inconvenient for the majority of the county? There was another thread a few months back about Crown. The capacity at Crown wasn't even necessary if current boundaries were shifted?

I want to know how many overpaid MCPS Central Office / BOE staff at Hungerford send their kids to College Gardens ES or live in Kings Farm? Someone on the thread was pushing hard to insist that those areas would 100% certain be part of Crown.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they don’t close Cold Spring. It’s a fabulous little school. My kids attended it. It’s always been underenrolled but it would be pretty easy to pull an adjacent neighborhood in to fill those seats. It is definitely a rundown and outdated building decades overdue to be renovated or rebuilt. They’ve had it on the list at least since my oldest was in K and now she’s graduating college. They just kept pushing construction back.

They should shift Fallsreach neighborhood to Cold Spring. It was so strange being bused across Falls Road to go to Beverly Farms, when we could have walked to Cold Spring — from a native of MoCo

That’s such a great idea. I hope they consider it. Why close such a high performing school that’s fed by almost all walkers (the center being the big exception).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they don’t close Cold Spring. It’s a fabulous little school. My kids attended it. It’s always been underenrolled but it would be pretty easy to pull an adjacent neighborhood in to fill those seats. It is definitely a rundown and outdated building decades overdue to be renovated or rebuilt. They’ve had it on the list at least since my oldest was in K and now she’s graduating college. They just kept pushing construction back.

They should shift Fallsreach neighborhood to Cold Spring. It was so strange being bused across Falls Road to go to Beverly Farms, when we could have walked to Cold Spring — from a native of MoCo

That’s such a great idea. I hope they consider it. Why close such a high performing school that’s fed by almost all walkers (the center being the big exception).

The study isn't changing any elementary school boundaries.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of these schools lack real diversity and need some busing.

We already don't have enough buses/drivers. Kids on my kid's MCPS school bus have to sit on the floor. Increased bussing is a terrible idea