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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Severna park was in phase 1. There was not much pushback in that phase.

Crofton IS in phase 2 and the residents there are actually fighting the redistricting to try to KEEP the poorest/most diverse kids in the Crofton feeder (Nantucket elementary.)  The redistricting as proposed has not at all been about diversifying school populations, which you seem to suggest.  In the case of Crofton it would have effectively reduced the FARMS rate at CHS and made it whiter.  [/quote]

That's not what's happening. The sliver of Nantucket that would move to Arundel Middle/High is the wealthiest portion of the Nantucket neighborhood. It is a small group of relatively rich, white Nantucket parents fighting being redistricted to a less white school.

Were you around for the "Option Four" debacle? [/quote]

That’s not true. Nantucket ES is both less white and has a higher FARMS rate than every school in the Crofton or Arundel cluster except for Odenton Elementary School. Also many parents in these neighborhoods are alumni of Arundel High School or sent their older children to Arundel High. It has never been about race or one school being better than the other, it’s completely about not splitting up kids at an elementary school every year and sending them down danegerous roads to schools that are even more overcrowded. Every family got out of redistricting except for Nantucket, and that’s messed up. [/quote]

Again, I have very little sympathy for Nantucket parents who actively lobbied the board to kick other children out of the Crofton cluster. That was horrible and as far as I’m concerned, they got what they deserved.[/quote]

When did that ever happen? They advocated to keep Crofton’s boundaries as is. [/quote]

They initially asked the Board to redistrict all kids west of Route 3 to Arundel, even those living miles south of Nantucket, despite the fact that those neighborhoods were never even contemplated for redistricting in the original WXY scenarios. Their idea was to trade those kids for Nantucket kids. They abandoned that plan after a pretty significant backlash and a critical facebook post from the president of the AA County chapter of the NAACP. This happened in April/May.

There's no easy way to share the PDFs they circulated outlining the plan, so I apologize for the janky links.

https://publuu.com/flip-book/1020148/2254607
https://publuu.com/flip-book/1020148/2254612[/quote]

Thank you for sharing! I do remember Option 4, I just didn’t realize that it got that much controversy. Why did the NAACP make a post? Did the neighborhoods they propose go to Arundel have a lot of Black students?

I do know that during the districting of Crofton High School in 2018, there was a lot of controversy around making Route 3 the boundary between Crofton and Arundel cluster schools (also largely pushed by Nantucket parents) because it never had been the boundary before, and making that the boundary meant that mostly Black communities living in the Waugh Chapel Town Center area would have to get bussed to Arundel.

I thought it made sense to send Two Rivers to Arundel since they are deeper into Odenton, but I had a bad feeling about sending those Waugh Chapel neighborhoods to Arundel. I think they should have sent them to Crofton. [/quote]

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