Seneca Valley Boundary Study

[Anonymous]

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And you live in Clarksburg and are not opposed to sending your child to SVHS?

I live in the Clarksburg cluster. I do not live in Clarksburg. I am not opposed to sending my child to Seneca Valley High School.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

And you live in Clarksburg and are not opposed to sending your child to SVHS?

I live in the Clarksburg cluster. I do not live in Clarksburg. I am not opposed to sending my child to Seneca Valley High School.

That's great. Hope you do end up there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

And you live in Clarksburg and are not opposed to sending your child to SVHS?

I live in the Clarksburg cluster. I do not live in Clarksburg. I am not opposed to sending my child to Seneca Valley High School.

That's great. Hope you do end up there.

The whole Clarksburg discussion about rezoning to Seneca Valley has been really unpleasant and depressing. (Maybe the Northwest discussion has too, but I haven't heard it.) Bigotry, fear, and nastiness. And for what? Go to Seneca Valley at arrival or dismissal, and here is what you'll see: high school kids just like the high school kids at Northwest and Clarksburg.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

And you live in Clarksburg and are not opposed to sending your child to SVHS?

I live in the Clarksburg cluster. I do not live in Clarksburg. I am not opposed to sending my child to Seneca Valley High School.

That's great. Hope you do end up there.

If my residence ends up there, chances are that your residence is there too. And it will be fine! The world will not come to an end.

[Anonymous]

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I’m fine with some vocational career training being implemented at the high school level. But it needs to be done effectively. Will SVHS’s training and equipment be up to date with the constant upgrades in knowledge and technology? Is there continuous funding to ensure this? It’s all a big headache in my opinion and it takes away from the ultimate purpose of high school which is to educate.

Vocational education is education.

Way to set the bar low! What percentage of the new student population will be utilizing vocational training?

a sh*t ton more if we expanded programs and stopped being so g-ddamn elitist . . .

[Anonymous]

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I’m fine with some vocational career training being implemented at the high school level. But it needs to be done effectively. Will SVHS’s training and equipment be up to date with the constant upgrades in knowledge and technology? Is there continuous funding to ensure this? It’s all a big headache in my opinion and it takes away from the ultimate purpose of high school which is to educate.

Vocational education is education.

Way to set the bar low! What percentage of the new student population will be utilizing vocational training?

a sh*t ton more if we expanded programs and stopped being so g-ddamn elitist . . .

You really think a "sh*t ton" of Clarksburg kids are going to enroll in the vocational program? Haha that's hilarious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I’m fine with some vocational career training being implemented at the high school level. But it needs to be done effectively. Will SVHS’s training and equipment be up to date with the constant upgrades in knowledge and technology? Is there continuous funding to ensure this? It’s all a big headache in my opinion and it takes away from the ultimate purpose of high school which is to educate.

Vocational education is education.

Way to set the bar low! What percentage of the new student population will be utilizing vocational training?

a sh*t ton more if we expanded programs and stopped being so g-ddamn elitist . . .

You really think a "sh*t ton" of Clarksburg kids are going to enroll in the vocational program? Haha that's hilarious.

Seriously. It's hilarious that MCPS and SVHS are marketing this vocational program to draw in or entice families to the school. No one I know in Clarksburg is jumping for joy over these programs.

[Anonymous]

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Seriously. It's hilarious that MCPS and SVHS are marketing this vocational program to draw in or entice families to the school. No one I know in Clarksburg is jumping for joy over these programs.

There are many people in Clarksburg you don't know. Including kids at Clarksburg HS right now who have to leave school at mid-day every day and take a school bus to halfway across the county to Thomas Edison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Seriously. It's hilarious that MCPS and SVHS are marketing this vocational program to draw in or entice families to the school. No one I know in Clarksburg is jumping for joy over these programs.

There are many people in Clarksburg you don't know. Including kids at Clarksburg HS right now who have to leave school at mid-day every day and take a school bus to halfway across the county to Thomas Edison.

Apparently. Happy that this will help them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

And you live in Clarksburg and are not opposed to sending your child to SVHS?

I live in the Clarksburg cluster. I do not live in Clarksburg. I am not opposed to sending my child to Seneca Valley High School.

Your child should attend SVHS. You're not concerned or against your child attending school there, so it actually works out perfectly for you. And please stop referring to yourself as a Clarksburg parent. You don't live in Clarksburg.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And you live in Clarksburg and are not opposed to sending your child to SVHS?

I live in the Clarksburg cluster. I do not live in Clarksburg. I am not opposed to sending my child to Seneca Valley High School.

Your child should attend SVHS. You're not concerned or against your child attending school there, so it actually works out perfectly for you. And please stop referring to yourself as a Clarksburg parent. You don't live in Clarksburg.

This. Germantown families currently at CHS should be happy that SVHS will now be able to accommodate them. It looks like there will be great programs there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I’m fine with some vocational career training being implemented at the high school level. But it needs to be done effectively. Will SVHS’s training and equipment be up to date with the constant upgrades in knowledge and technology? Is there continuous funding to ensure this? It’s all a big headache in my opinion and it takes away from the ultimate purpose of high school which is to educate.

Vocational education is education.

Way to set the bar low! What percentage of the new student population will be utilizing vocational training?

a sh*t ton more if we expanded programs and stopped being so g-ddamn elitist . . .

You really think a "sh*t ton" of Clarksburg kids are going to enroll in the vocational program? Haha that's hilarious.

Seriously. It's hilarious that MCPS and SVHS are marketing this vocational program to draw in or entice families to the school. No one I know in Clarksburg is jumping for joy over these programs.

I teach at an elementary school in Germantown. I've worked there for a long time and former students will come back to chat during school events and when they're picking up their siblings. There are a good number of kids who are interested in vocational training but it's too time consuming for them to go down to Edison. Many of them have after school jobs or have to be at elementary school dismissal to pick up their siblings and take care of them after school. There are a lot of bright kids who don't have the means to go to college right out of high school but they do want to learn skills that will help them get good jobs. I think adding the vocational program upcounty is a great idea. My students will have more options than they currently have, and that's a good thing.

[Anonymous]

The sad and ironic part is that SVHS PTA doesn’t want more Germantown kids to come to SVHS. They have specifically asked the BoE for Clarksburg and Boyds students to fill in the new seats. They’re after diversity and reduction in FARMS. Clarksburg families are demanding to stay in Clarksburg. Germantown students could benefit from vocational programming. What to do? What to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's 45 acres for sale on Piedmont in Clarksburg. Sounds like enough space for a new HS.

if push comes to shove there’s always room at damascus if they go that route

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sad and ironic part is that SVHS PTA doesn’t want more Germantown kids to come to SVHS. They have specifically asked the BoE for Clarksburg and Boyds students to fill in the new seats. They’re after diversity and reduction in FARMS. Clarksburg families are demanding to stay in Clarksburg. Germantown students could benefit from vocational programming. What to do? What to do?

"Clarksburg families" and "Germantown families" are irrelevant terms here. MCPS is a countywide district and can zone any part of Montgomery County to the schools it chooses.