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[b]This is why I really worry about QO being one of the first targets.[/b] QO has been getting more wealthy and white, the FARMS rate keeps going down and at 21% isn't very diverse from the MCPS demographics. Rachel Carson is exploding and one if not the most over capacity ES in the county. The other schools are all full too. The next boundary study coming up involves Seneca Valley and Northwest. I'd predict that this change has A LOT to do with this and QO is on their target list.

MCPS tends to lump QO in around NW and doesn't look fondly on or really care about QO parents-especially RC ones. QO parents, with the exception of a small group of RC parents, tend to be less ready to organize and fight for anything. QO has only started to be recognized as a strong school recently. QO would be seen as an easy target with less push back than going further south into Wootton or Churchill where the entire area would jump on them in a second. Plus the Wootton ES schools are almost all under capacity so while tearing down Wootton would be a huge feather in the BOE's cap, it would mean bussing all the kids who live in Wootton somewhere north passing the busses of kids coming down from the north which would look ridiculous. [/quote]

"Targets"? Really?

Quince Orchard will be, and should be, part of the rezoning when the high school at Crown is built.

Quince Orchard High School
Capital Project: Projections indicate that enrollment at
Quince Orchard High School will exceed capacity by 200
seats or more by the end of the six-year planning period. An
FY 2018 appropriation was approved for a facility planning
to conduct a capacity study. Expenditures are approved in
the six-year period to open a new high school on the Crown
Farm site to address overutilization in the mid-county region.
Although an FY 2019 appropriation for planning was recommended
by the Board of Education to begin the architectural
design for this new school, the County Council delayed the
funds by one year to begin in FY 2020. Once the planning
is complete, a recommendation will be included in the next
full CIP regarding the phasing and completion date for the
opening of this new high school.

That's not "targeting" Quince Orchard HS. That's addressing capacity issues in the high schools in the area, including Quince Orchard HS.[/quote]

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