‘W’ schools boundary study?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white

Whitman kids are already bused to silver spring/TP schools to make them look better. What do you think the magnet is for.

The difference is that's voluntary. If you don't want to be bused, don't apply to the magnet. I lived within walking distance of a W school and chose not to apply to Blair because I didn't want to sit on a bus every day.

Redistricting is different -- the choice to be bused is not voluntary.

Sure it is. You may choose (a) school bus transportation to your assigned public school (b) some other form of transportation to your assigned public school (c) private school (d) home school.

Are people getting dumber or are the topics becoming so complex that they average person struggles with multiple paths of basic reasoning?

How difficult is it to understand that choosing to drive miles away to a magnet program is different from maybe a 5 to 10 minute drive to your local school? Very different from being told you have to bus very far away. It's not just that you are getting into a bus already so it doesn't matter. There is a time and distance component that people will factor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just keep on talking, W parents on here. The more you say, the likelier it is that we’re finally going to get more equitable schools. Please just keep going to public meetings and complaining aloud that “those kids” are going to bring down your property values.

As we saw from HCPS's River Hill outcome versus Cabin Branch, the squeeky wheel gets oiled. The louder we are in defending our cinmunities, the better is our chance of keeping them intact.

Subtle threats like yours will get your movement nowhere, as well as create resentment against the very people you are trying to protect.

The very idea that you believe your community is under attack shows a lack of perspective. The public in general does not have sympathy for wealthy homeowners who believe their rights are being violated by having to go to school with some people who aren’t wealthy. Seriously, just keep talking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just keep on talking, W parents on here. The more you say, the likelier it is that we’re finally going to get more equitable schools. Please just keep going to public meetings and complaining aloud that “those kids” are going to bring down your property values.

As we saw from HCPS's River Hill outcome versus Cabin Branch, the squeeky wheel gets oiled. The louder we are in defending our cinmunities, the better is our chance of keeping them intact.

Subtle threats like yours will get your movement nowhere, as well as create resentment against the very people you are trying to protect.

The very idea that you believe your community is under attack shows a lack of perspective. The public in general does not have sympathy for wealthy homeowners who believe their rights are being violated by having to go to school with some people who aren’t wealthy. Seriously, just keep talking.

My townhouse is worth less than your Silver Spring house.

We are absolutely under attack.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just keep on talking, W parents on here. The more you say, the likelier it is that we’re finally going to get more equitable schools. Please just keep going to public meetings and complaining aloud that “those kids” are going to bring down your property values.

As we saw from HCPS's River Hill outcome versus Cabin Branch, the squeeky wheel gets oiled. The louder we are in defending our cinmunities, the better is our chance of keeping them intact.

Subtle threats like yours will get your movement nowhere, as well as create resentment against the very people you are trying to protect.

The very idea that you believe your community is under attack shows a lack of perspective. The public in general does not have sympathy for wealthy homeowners who believe their rights are being violated by having to go to school with some people who aren’t wealthy. Seriously, just keep talking.

My townhouse is worth less than your Silver Spring house.

We are absolutely under attack.

Who is attacking you and why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white

Whitman kids are already bused to silver spring/TP schools to make them look better. What do you think the magnet is for.

All 3 of them don’t make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white

Whitman kids are already bused to silver spring/TP schools to make them look better. What do you think the magnet is for.

Here is an idea. Keep your kids at your school where you spent a fortune to go there and leave our schools alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is going to happen for W schools similar to what happened for cabin branch.

My first thought.

Kensington- Parkwood and Garrett Park will be out of WJ AND Woodward. Would not be at all surprised that they’ll be heading East to HS under this school board.

[Anonymous]

No one knows what will happen. The report that comes out this Spring will have NO recommendations. Who knows if the Board of Education will put it on a dusty shelf to collect dust, study more things, punt to 2023 for boundary studies (if no delays and if they follow current policy, 18 months prior to Crown, Northwood and Woodward opening), if there will be a new Board, a new Superintendent, etc.

So much hysteria and conjecture on this Board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white

Whitman kids are already bused to silver spring/TP schools to make them look better. What do you think the magnet is for.

All 3 of them don’t make a difference.

LOL true enough

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white

Whitman kids are already bused to silver spring/TP schools to make them look better. What do you think the magnet is for.

The difference is that's voluntary. If you don't want to be bused, don't apply to the magnet. I lived within walking distance of a W school and chose not to apply to Blair because I didn't want to sit on a bus every day.

Redistricting is different -- the choice to be bused is not voluntary.

Sure it is. You may choose (a) school bus transportation to your assigned public school (b) some other form of transportation to your assigned public school (c) private school (d) home school.

Are people getting dumber or are the topics becoming so complex that they average person struggles with multiple paths of basic reasoning?

How difficult is it to understand that choosing to drive miles away to a magnet program is different from maybe a 5 to 10 minute drive to your local school? Very different from being told you have to bus very far away. It's not just that you are getting into a bus already so it doesn't matter. There is a time and distance component that people will factor.

The point is that you actually don't have to bus. You have choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white

Whitman kids are already bused to silver spring/TP schools to make them look better. What do you think the magnet is for.

The difference is that's voluntary. If you don't want to be bused, don't apply to the magnet. I lived within walking distance of a W school and chose not to apply to Blair because I didn't want to sit on a bus every day.

Redistricting is different -- the choice to be bused is not voluntary.

Sure it is. You may choose (a) school bus transportation to your assigned public school (b) some other form of transportation to your assigned public school (c) private school (d) home school.

Are people getting dumber or are the topics becoming so complex that they average person struggles with multiple paths of basic reasoning?

How difficult is it to understand that choosing to drive miles away to a magnet program is different from maybe a 5 to 10 minute drive to your local school? Very different from being told you have to bus very far away. It's not just that you are getting into a bus already so it doesn't matter. There is a time and distance component that people will factor.

The point is that you actually don't have to bus. You have choices.

NP. In fairness to the PP, the further away the school, the harder alternative it becomes to avoid putting your kids on the bus. I may be able to drive my kids to school down the street on my way to work, but I can't drive them 30 min in the other direction. And "you can private school or home school" are not really acceptable responses for parents concerned about getting their kids safely to school. We owe all children a safe public education, and it doesn't come off well to be dismissive of anyone's reasonable concerns just because you assume they're wealthy.

That said, I think there's way too much hysteria surrounding this issue. (And I had a friend killed in a school bus accident when we were in elementary school, so I'm not oblivious to the concerns). I just don't think, realistically, that there is a likelihood of kids being bused en masse across the county in any direction. It would be cost-prohibitive, bad for the environment, and bad for traffic. And unpopular - no one, rich, poor, or in-between, wants their kids spending an hour on the bus each way.

I think what we're going to see are some boundary adjustments to better utlize space and mix people up some but within contiguous communities. I don't think

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one knows what will happen. The report that comes out this Spring will have NO recommendations. Who knows if the Board of Education will put it on a dusty shelf to collect dust, study more things, punt to 2023 for boundary studies (if no delays and if they follow current policy, 18 months prior to Crown, Northwood and Woodward opening), if there will be a new Board, a new Superintendent, etc.

So much hysteria and conjecture on this Board.

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It's going to be a long 3 years with two or three "OMG what will happen with boundaries!?" threads at all times. The boundary analysis is just gathering data, which will hopefully include historical data and trends. At the rate that things change in the county, many of the neighborhoods will measurably change in their demographic and student compositions. It's pointless to conjecture about results without details now, especially when they will be out of date in 3 years.

[Anonymous]

I'm fine with anything they do as long as they can balance farms rate within 2% across all schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with anything they do as long as they can balance farms rate within 2% across all schools.

You will be right! But you don't have enough wealth to donate and fulfill your wish. So accept whatever the farms rate happens to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the question at hand?

Is it realistic for families currently zoned to Churchill, WJ, Whitman, etc to be concerned about redistricting? Does anyone have concrete info? (yes I know the study/hearings are upcoming, but someone must have some intel)

WJ: yes b/c of overcrowding
Whitman and Churchill: doubtful b/c of steady enrollment

Whitman is very white. So I won’t be surprised if they start bussing Whitman kids to SS/TP schools. Wootton/Churchill/WJ are much less white

Whitman kids are already bused to silver spring/TP schools to make them look better. What do you think the magnet is for.

All 3 of them don’t make a difference.

The whole point of a magnet was to desegregate. Many of you don't know your history.