MCPS BOE petition re: making student demographics the primary factor in redistricting decisions

[Anonymous]

https://www.change.org/p/boe-mcpsmd-org-oppose-long-distance-busing-in-mcps-to-foster-communities-through-neighborhood-schools-9ee170ce-ce71-40de-9df5-182d62a4e24d

Vote is tonight, Mon Sept 24th.

Please sign or disseminate if you are a supporter of building communities through investing in neighborhood schools.

You may refer to Cambridge MA for an example of failed school system following universal integration and lottery-based school assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/boe-mcpsmd-org-oppose-long-distance-busing-in-mcps-to-foster-communities-through-neighborhood-schools-9ee170ce-ce71-40de-9df5-182d62a4e24d

Vote is tonight, Mon Sept 24th.

Please sign or disseminate if you are a supporter of building communities through investing in neighborhood schools.

You may refer to Cambridge MA for an example of failed school system following universal integration and lottery-based school assignments.

This is wonderful OP. I signed hopefully others will see and sign as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/boe-mcpsmd-org-oppose-long-distance-busing-in-mcps-to-foster-communities-through-neighborhood-schools-9ee170ce-ce71-40de-9df5-182d62a4e24d

Vote is tonight, Mon Sept 24th.

Please sign or disseminate if you are a supporter of building communities through investing in neighborhood schools.

You may refer to Cambridge MA for an example of failed school system following universal integration and lottery-based school assignments.

The BoE will be in session starting this afternoon. Individual emails sent to the Boss before 12 pm will be much more effective than a petition at this point...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/boe-mcpsmd-org-oppose-long-distance-busing-in-mcps-to-foster-communities-through-neighborhood-schools-9ee170ce-ce71-40de-9df5-182d62a4e24d

Vote is tonight, Mon Sept 24th.

Please sign or disseminate if you are a supporter of building communities through investing in neighborhood schools.

You may refer to Cambridge MA for an example of failed school system following universal integration and lottery-based school assignments.

The BoE will be in session starting this afternoon. Individual emails sent to the Boss before 12 pm will be much more effective than a petition at this point...

BoE (not boss)... autocorrect

[Anonymous]

Your post is reactionary. The issue before the school board is not about long distance bussing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your post is reactionary. The issue before the school board is not about long distance bussing.

Creating petitions about something that isn't the issue at being debated is muckraking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/boe-mcpsmd-org-oppose-long-distance-busing-in-mcps-to-foster-communities-through-neighborhood-schools-9ee170ce-ce71-40de-9df5-182d62a4e24d

Vote is tonight, Mon Sept 24th.

Please sign or disseminate if you are a supporter of building communities through investing in neighborhood schools.

You may refer to Cambridge MA for an example of failed school system following universal integration and lottery-based school assignments.

But there is nothing of the sort in the proposed policy change. So it's irrelevant. Nobody is proposing to get rid of neighborhood schools or to dismantle communities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your post is reactionary. The issue before the school board is not about long distance bussing.

Creating petitions about something that isn't the issue at being debated is muckraking.

No, muckraking is a good thing!

muckrake: : to search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business

This isn't muckracking, this is disinformation.

disinformation: : false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/boe-mcpsmd-org-oppose-long-distance-busing-in-mcps-to-foster-communities-through-neighborhood-schools-9ee170ce-ce71-40de-9df5-182d62a4e24d

Vote is tonight, Mon Sept 24th.

Please sign or disseminate if you are a supporter of building communities through investing in neighborhood schools.

You may refer to Cambridge MA for an example of failed school system following universal integration and lottery-based school assignments.

But there is nothing of the sort in the proposed policy change. So it's irrelevant. Nobody is proposing to get rid of neighborhood schools or to dismantle communities.

It will be the natural consequence of school assignments designed to overcome housing patterns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/boe-mcpsmd-org-oppose-long-distance-busing-in-mcps-to-foster-communities-through-neighborhood-schools-9ee170ce-ce71-40de-9df5-182d62a4e24d

Vote is tonight, Mon Sept 24th.

Please sign or disseminate if you are a supporter of building communities through investing in neighborhood schools.

You may refer to Cambridge MA for an example of failed school system following universal integration and lottery-based school assignments.

But there is nothing of the sort in the proposed policy change. So it's irrelevant. Nobody is proposing to get rid of neighborhood schools or to dismantle communities.

+1 The OP of the other thread, and this OP (if they aren't the same person) are both spreading misinformation for the purpose of inflaming public opinion about a option that isn't even being discussed (long distance bussing).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/boe-mcpsmd-org-oppose-long-distance-busing-in-mcps-to-foster-communities-through-neighborhood-schools-9ee170ce-ce71-40de-9df5-182d62a4e24d

Vote is tonight, Mon Sept 24th.

Please sign or disseminate if you are a supporter of building communities through investing in neighborhood schools.

You may refer to Cambridge MA for an example of failed school system following universal integration and lottery-based school assignments.

But there is nothing of the sort in the proposed policy change. So it's irrelevant. Nobody is proposing to get rid of neighborhood schools or to dismantle communities.

It will be the natural consequence of school assignments designed to overcome housing patterns.

Weighing demographic characteristics slightly more than geographic proximity, stability of school assignments, and facility utilization, rather than equally as they currently do, will inevitably and naturally lead to lottery-based school assignments and busing kindergartners across the county? You don't say.

[Anonymous]

Did they say demographics would be the PRIMARY factor or just one factor?

[Anonymous]

I am the OP of the previous "Alert" thread about busing.

Thanks, I just signed the petition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your post is reactionary. The issue before the school board is not about long distance bussing.

Creating petitions about something that isn't the issue at being debated is muckraking.

No, muckraking is a good thing!

muckrake: : to search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business

This isn't muckracking, this is disinformation.

disinformation: : false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth

Thanks for setting me straight!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they say demographics would be the PRIMARY factor or just one factor?

It's already one of four factors. The new language would elevate demographic factors slightly above the other three.