Seneca Valley Boundary Study

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Who wants to have their cake and eat it too?

I am not a SVHS parent, but we've all seen what happens when there's one high school in the area that has more poor students and more black and Latino students. (Summary version: parents at the other schools treat that school as though there were daily gang shoot-outs in the hallways.) If you think it's a good idea to deliberately perpetuate that, I'd like to know why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Who wants to have their cake and eat it too?

I am not a SVHS parent, but we've all seen what happens when there's one high school in the area that has more poor students and more black and Latino students. (Summary version: parents at the other schools treat that school as though there were daily gang shoot-outs in the hallways.) If you think it's a good idea to deliberately perpetuate that, I'd like to know why.

Germantown first need to accommodate the students who are from Germantown. A brand new spanking school, but my URM kid has to go to a HS in Gaithersburg that is bottom of the heap? Sorry.

While Clarksburg parents are bitching and moaning that they have to come to this school? Well, guess what? Why not zone Clarksburg areas to be part of Germantown?

[Anonymous]

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/SVHS_SupplementA.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/SVHS_SupplementA.pdf

The superintendent's recommendation is a variation of Option 11A:

CHS to SVHS: Clarksburg ES south/west of 270 (including Cabin Branch), Gibbs ES except Summerfield Crossing

NWS to SVHS: the Clopper Mill ES island, the Matsunaga ES island, part of Germantown ES (which part?)

Neelsville MS to Rocky Hill MS: Daly ES, Fox Chapel ES

Rocky Hill MS to Neelsville MS: Clarksburg ES south/west of 270 (including Cabin Branch), Gibbs ES except Summerfield Crossing

Clemente MS to Kingsview MS: the Great Seneca Creek ES part that currently goes to Clemente MS

Kingsview MS to MLK MS: the Clopper Mill ES island

Starting in September 2020 with 9th and 10th at SVHS and 6th and 7th at the middle schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/SVHS_SupplementA.pdf

The superintendent's recommendation is a variation of Option 11A:

CHS to SVHS: Clarksburg ES south/west of 270 (including Cabin Branch), Gibbs ES except Summerfield Crossing

NWS to SVHS: the Clopper Mill ES island, the Matsunaga ES island, part of Germantown ES (which part?)

Neelsville MS to Rocky Hill MS: Daly ES, Fox Chapel ES

Rocky Hill MS to Neelsville MS: Clarksburg ES south/west of 270 (including Cabin Branch), Gibbs ES except Summerfield Crossing

Clemente MS to Kingsview MS: the Great Seneca Creek ES part that currently goes to Clemente MS

Kingsview MS to MLK MS: the Clopper Mill ES island

Starting in September 2020 with 9th and 10th at SVHS and 6th and 7th at the middle schools.

EXCEPT current 9th graders in APPS and P-TECH (CHS) and Ulysses and MC2 (NWHS) would stay at their current schools.

[Anonymous]

That's it all. If anyone was ever wondering where MCPS priorities are, then this recommendation says it all. It's clear that the Superintendent's highest priority is demographics. This recommendation sets the pace for the rest of the boundary decisions.

[Anonymous]

So there are a few conclusions:
* new construction gets screwed (remember 2 years ago some new townhouses by Shady Grove Metro that were expected to feed to Magruder, but instead went to GHS). Buy new at your own risk.
* superintendant did not pick any new schools that were not on the BOE list in options 1-12.
* If your school appears in several BOE reassignment maps, your assignment will change.
* Options that do not balance FARMS are for entertainment purposes only. They are not under serious consideration

Anything I am missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's it all. If anyone was ever wondering where MCPS priorities are, then this recommendation says it all. It's clear that the Superintendent's highest priority is demographics. This recommendation sets the pace for the rest of the boundary decisions.

I guess you didn't read the whole thing? For example, he talks about prioritizing walkers - that's geography. And he excluded a lot of options because they didn't help with capacity - that's capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So there are a few conclusions:
* new construction gets screwed (remember 2 years ago some new townhouses by Shady Grove Metro that were expected to feed to Magruder, but instead went to GHS). Buy new at your own risk.
* superintendant did not pick any new schools that were not on the BOE list in options 1-12.
* If your school appears in several BOE reassignment maps, your assignment will change.
* Options that do not balance FARMS are for entertainment purposes only. They are not under serious consideration

Anything I am missing?

I think you are missing some marbles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So there are a few conclusions:
* new construction gets screwed (remember 2 years ago some new townhouses by Shady Grove Metro that were expected to feed to Magruder, but instead went to GHS). Buy new at your own risk.
* superintendant did not pick any new schools that were not on the BOE list in options 1-12.
* If your school appears in several BOE reassignment maps, your assignment will change.
* Options that do not balance FARMS are for entertainment purposes only. They are not under serious consideration

Anything I am missing?

That's it. Bottom line, around here, DEMOGRAPHICS is the most important. He practically stated that in his report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So there are a few conclusions:
* new construction gets screwed (remember 2 years ago some new townhouses by Shady Grove Metro that were expected to feed to Magruder, but instead went to GHS). Buy new at your own risk.
* superintendant did not pick any new schools that were not on the BOE list in options 1-12.
* If your school appears in several BOE reassignment maps, your assignment will change.
* Options that do not balance FARMS are for entertainment purposes only. They are not under serious consideration

Anything I am missing?

That might be true, if by "get screwed", you mean "get reassigned from School A to School B." Note, however, that lots of not-at-all-new construction is also getting reassigned.

If your area is in several options, that's probably because it's a good candidate for reassignment.

And yes, options that do nothing about FARMS are off the table, obviously. Because demographics is one of the four factors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So there are a few conclusions:
* new construction gets screwed (remember 2 years ago some new townhouses by Shady Grove Metro that were expected to feed to Magruder, but instead went to GHS). Buy new at your own risk.
* superintendant did not pick any new schools that were not on the BOE list in options 1-12.
* If your school appears in several BOE reassignment maps, your assignment will change.
* Options that do not balance FARMS are for entertainment purposes only. They are not under serious consideration

Anything I am missing?

That's it. Bottom line, around here, DEMOGRAPHICS is the most important. He practically stated that in his report.

Nope. If that were true, he would have picked the option that reassigned Little Bennett ES and Darnestown ES.

[Anonymous]

Wow. The Superintendent’s recommendation really takes a big hit at Rocky Hill MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. The Superintendent’s recommendation really takes a big hit at Rocky Hill MS.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. The Superintendent’s recommendation really takes a big hit at Rocky Hill MS.

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FARMS rate goes up from 22% to 39.1%