BOE Memer is proposing to study school boundary in MCPS

[Anonymous]

Reported by Bethesda Magazine: “Board members propose districtwide boundary study, class size review committee

County school board members have proposed establishing a districtwide boundary study and class size review committee, both intended to ease crowding.

Student board member Ananya Tadikonda, a senior at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, proposed the boundary assessment study in response to an increase in enrollment and student diversity that she believes challenges the school district’s ability to provide equitable facilities throughout the county.

Tadikonda suggests hiring an independent consultant to study whether boundaries of neighboring school clusters countywide could be altered to even the distribution of students among schools. The consultant would be tasked with providing a report by June 4.”

Should MCPS redraw the school boundary to achieve racial balance?

[Anonymous]

OP, do a search on this forum. There have been approximately 3,624 threads on this topic in the last few months.

[Anonymous]

Even if you you moved everybody around and went through the chaos, the new boundaries would get unbalanced within a few years and would need to be done again. The constant state of flux would erode the confidence to buy in the county. It would do greater harm than good.

Sorry kid life doesn’t always shake out fair and being poor means you have to live where too many other people live and use stuff that is used up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, do a search on this forum. There have been approximately 3,624 threads on this topic in the last few months.

Yes, and the threads came up with a collective "it will never happen, BOE does not have the willpower"

Well, they are about to vote on it.

If I had to guess, you must have a vested interest in redistricting in this county. "go on, go on, nothing to see here"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, do a search on this forum. There have been approximately 3,624 threads on this topic in the last few months.

Yes, and the threads came up with a collective "it will never happen, BOE does not have the willpower"

Well, they are about to vote on it.

If I had to guess, you must have a vested interest in redistricting in this county. "go on, go on, nothing to see here"

FTLOG, her proposal is to hire a consultant to write a report about school boundaries. That's what they're about to vote on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, do a search on this forum. There have been approximately 3,624 threads on this topic in the last few months.

Yes, and the threads came up with a collective "it will never happen, BOE does not have the willpower"

Well, they are about to vote on it.

If I had to guess, you must have a vested interest in redistricting in this county. "go on, go on, nothing to see here"

FTLOG, her proposal is to hire a consultant to write a report about school boundaries. That's what they're about to vote on.

Well, yes, that is the first step. I anticipate that the consultant won't say, "oh I think the boundaries are just fine as they are now"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, do a search on this forum. There have been approximately 3,624 threads on this topic in the last few months.

Yes, and the threads came up with a collective "it will never happen, BOE does not have the willpower"

Well, they are about to vote on it.

If I had to guess, you must have a vested interest in redistricting in this county. "go on, go on, nothing to see here"

FTLOG, her proposal is to hire a consultant to write a report about school boundaries. That's what they're about to vote on.

Well, yes, that is the first step. I anticipate that the consultant won't say, "oh I think the boundaries are just fine as they are now"

You: The sky is falling!
DCUM: The sky is not falling. Somebody is proposing a study of the atmosphere.
You: This will only end in the sky falling!

[Anonymous]

I think it's a good idea. Some clusters are way over crowded while others are under utilized. If they divide the county into four parts, the rezoning would be easier. HoCo rezones every few years. Yes, HoCo is smaller than MCPS, which is why I stated that MCPS should divide the county into four parts for rezoning purposes. Smaller scale, easier to rezone.

As for racial balancing.. I don't think it's about race as much as about FARMS/ESOL rate, and I think it's fine to balance out clusters for this purpose.

I live in the RM cluster and was involved in the rezoning when Rustin was opening. I know the fight will get ugly like it did for Rustin. But, this is one school district, and no one has the right to go to any one specific school. I don't think the BOE will accept busing from one side of the county to another. It's neighboring clusters that they will be looking at, not cross county clusters.

Having stated this, however, I do think they should also have some common sense when it comes to rezoning. Two of the options in the Rustin rezoning made zero sense. This is what I would be concerned about, that they throw up ridiculous options just to make the FARMs numbers look more even.

[Anonymous]

Should MCPS redraw the school boundary to achieve racial balance?

Of course, they should! The days of segregation are a thing of the past. Let the diversity bussing commence!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a good idea. Some clusters are way over crowded while others are under utilized. If they divide the county into four parts, the rezoning would be easier. HoCo rezones every few years. Yes, HoCo is smaller than MCPS, which is why I stated that MCPS should divide the county into four parts for rezoning purposes. Smaller scale, easier to rezone.

As for racial balancing.. I don't think it's about race as much as about FARMS/ESOL rate, and I think it's fine to balance out clusters for this purpose.

I live in the RM cluster and was involved in the rezoning when Rustin was opening. I know the fight will get ugly like it did for Rustin. But, this is one school district, and no one has the right to go to any one specific school. I don't think the BOE will accept busing from one side of the county to another. It's neighboring clusters that they will be looking at, not cross county clusters.

Having stated this, however, I do think they should also have some common sense when it comes to rezoning. Two of the options in the Rustin rezoning made zero sense. This is what I would be concerned about, that they throw up ridiculous options just to make the FARMs numbers look more even.

Given the diamond shape of the county would be perfect.

One southern close in zone let's call that the new DCC
Two middle zones that are split east/west the new MCCE & MCCW
One northern zone let's call that AGCC

Also love the idea of many W kids being part of the new DCC.

[Anonymous]

We are coming for you BCC and WJ! You can run but you can't hide!!

- DCC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Should MCPS redraw the school boundary to achieve racial balance?

Of course, they should! The days of segregation are a thing of the past. Let the diversity bussing commence!

"Diversity bussing" is not a thing. Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen, Gretchen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a good idea. Some clusters are way over crowded while others are under utilized. If they divide the county into four parts, the rezoning would be easier. HoCo rezones every few years. Yes, HoCo is smaller than MCPS, which is why I stated that MCPS should divide the county into four parts for rezoning purposes. Smaller scale, easier to rezone.

As for racial balancing.. I don't think it's about race as much as about FARMS/ESOL rate, and I think it's fine to balance out clusters for this purpose.

I live in the RM cluster and was involved in the rezoning when Rustin was opening. I know the fight will get ugly like it did for Rustin. But, this is one school district, and no one has the right to go to any one specific school. I don't think the BOE will accept busing from one side of the county to another. It's neighboring clusters that they will be looking at, not cross county clusters.

Having stated this, however, I do think they should also have some common sense when it comes to rezoning. Two of the options in the Rustin rezoning made zero sense. This is what I would be concerned about, that they throw up ridiculous options just to make the FARMs numbers look more even.

I was just talking to somebody from Howard County this weekend. I made some vague allusions to MCPS, and she talked for half an hour about the terribleness of constant HCPS rezoning - kids going here, kids going there, constant uncertainty, and every few years a giant fight.

[Anonymous]

Honestly -- I think they need to at least consider this option. Some schools are massively overcrowded while other are under-utilized. Why build new schools when they could potentially solve the problem with redistricting. Isn't that a more cost effective solution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a good idea. Some clusters are way over crowded while others are under utilized. If they divide the county into four parts, the rezoning would be easier. HoCo rezones every few years. Yes, HoCo is smaller than MCPS, which is why I stated that MCPS should divide the county into four parts for rezoning purposes. Smaller scale, easier to rezone.

As for racial balancing.. I don't think it's about race as much as about FARMS/ESOL rate, and I think it's fine to balance out clusters for this purpose.

I live in the RM cluster and was involved in the rezoning when Rustin was opening. I know the fight will get ugly like it did for Rustin. But, this is one school district, and no one has the right to go to any one specific school. I don't think the BOE will accept busing from one side of the county to another. It's neighboring clusters that they will be looking at, not cross county clusters.

Having stated this, however, I do think they should also have some common sense when it comes to rezoning. Two of the options in the Rustin rezoning made zero sense. This is what I would be concerned about, that they throw up ridiculous options just to make the FARMs numbers look more even.

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