Seneca Valley Boundary Study

[Anonymous]

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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.

Actually it is. SVHS PTA has specifically stated that they wanted more Clarksburg and Northwest students to attend SVHS for demographic reasons. Why is that so hard to admit? Just go to their Facebook page and you can see for yourself what they said.

[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.

How many currently, and how many of those students are actually Clarksburg residents?

[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?

The students who can benefit from that program the most, should take priority for that program, obviously.

[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.

How many currently, and how many of those students are actually Clarksburg residents?

Who cares? What zip code one lives in has nothing to do with this study.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Actually it is. SVHS PTA has specifically stated that they wanted more Clarksburg and Northwest students to attend SVHS for demographic reasons. Why is that so hard to admit? Just go to their Facebook page and you can see for yourself what they said.

Note the distinction between Clarksburg HS/Northwest HS (which is an MCPS issue) and Clarksburg/Germantown (which is not).

[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.

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.

Are people in Clarksburg in real life as exclusive, us vs them, and unaware of the basic functioning of local government as the "Clarksburg" posters on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

How many currently, and how many of those students are actually Clarksburg residents?

My kid at Clarksburg High School does not ask everybody where they live before talking to them. And your kid probably doesn't either.

If you want to know how many kids at Clarksburg High School are enrolled in programs at Thomas Edison, I suggest that you call the high school office. Or you can stand outside and count kids getting on the bus, if you don't mind being creepy.

[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.

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.

This. All the while SVHS PTA is trying to get rid of students who would benefit from these vocational programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This. All the while SVHS PTA is trying to get rid of students who would benefit from these vocational programs.

Where on earth are these posters getting the idea that THOSE kids (in Germantown) benefit from vocational programs, but OUR kids (in Clarksburg) don't? As though every kid in Clarisburg is studious, academically-oriented, and bound for Harvard? I've got news for you.

Or maybe you're trying to persuade the SVHS PTSA that people in Clarksburg are so horrible that they must be quarantined in Clarksburg?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why aren't you concerned that all Clarksburg students will be unable to walk home from SVHS (and vice versa), and that there is no public transportation to take students directly from SVHS to Clarksburg? What will happen with afterschool activities, sports etc? Or do you only give a sh*t about a handful of students who currently ride a MCPS bus safely from CHS to Thomas Edison?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why aren't you concerned that all Clarksburg students will be unable to walk home from SVHS (and vice versa), and that there is no public transportation to take students directly from SVHS to Clarksburg? What will happen with afterschool activities, sports etc? Or do you only give a sh*t about a handful of students who currently ride a MCPS bus safely from CHS to Thomas Edison?

Please list the options that rezone current Clarksburg HS walkers to Seneca Valley HS.

Also, how do Clarksburg HS students not in the walk zone currently get home from afterschool activities, sports, etc.?

And did you know that RideOn 75 now goes to the Germantown MARC station during afterschool hours?

[Anonymous]

SVHS wants a good mix of different races. Most of the Asian and White students are zoned for NorthWest, Clarksburg and QO. They do not want Germantown students to have first dibs because then it will be that there will be more African Americans and Hispanics in SVHS.

No one has appetite to make a huge new school and fill it with low performing students. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why aren't you concerned that all Clarksburg students will be unable to walk home from SVHS (and vice versa), and that there is no public transportation to take students directly from SVHS to Clarksburg? What will happen with afterschool activities, sports etc? Or do you only give a sh*t about a handful of students who currently ride a MCPS bus safely from CHS to Thomas Edison?

Please list the options that rezone current Clarksburg HS walkers to Seneca Valley HS.

Also, how do Clarksburg HS students not in the walk zone currently get home from afterschool activities, sports, etc.?

And did you know that RideOn 75 now goes to the Germantown MARC station during afterschool hours?

Yes, and 1 hour to get home is acceptable to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why aren't you concerned that all Clarksburg students will be unable to walk home from SVHS (and vice versa), and that there is no public transportation to take students directly from SVHS to Clarksburg? What will happen with afterschool activities, sports etc? Or do you only give a sh*t about a handful of students who currently ride a MCPS bus safely from CHS to Thomas Edison?

Please list the options that rezone current Clarksburg HS walkers to Seneca Valley HS.

Also, how do Clarksburg HS students not in the walk zone currently get home from afterschool activities, sports, etc.?

And did you know that RideOn 75 now goes to the Germantown MARC station during afterschool hours?

NP. Can someone from SVHS talk about why they want Clarksburg students at their school and what do they think will be resolved with the plan that the SVHS PTA proposed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why aren't you concerned that all Clarksburg students will be unable to walk home from SVHS (and vice versa), and that there is no public transportation to take students directly from SVHS to Clarksburg? What will happen with afterschool activities, sports etc? Or do you only give a sh*t about a handful of students who currently ride a MCPS bus safely from CHS to Thomas Edison?

Please list the options that rezone current Clarksburg HS walkers to Seneca Valley HS.

Also, how do Clarksburg HS students not in the walk zone currently get home from afterschool activities, sports, etc.?

And did you know that RideOn 75 now goes to the Germantown MARC station during afterschool hours?

Yes, and 1 hour to get home is acceptable to you?

An hour to get home on the bus from Seneca Valley? To areas not currently in the Clarksburg HS walk zone? How do you figure that? If you want to use this opportunity to advocate for better bus service to Clarksburg, I'm all in favor.