Reply to MCPS Boundary Reassessment

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "MCPS Boundary Reassessment"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing in this County can be done that quickly.  This SMOB will be gone by the time any report would actually be produced.  But there is growing support in the County for a “County-side boundary study.”  How that would actually logistically be accomplished is anyone’s guess.  I find it really hard to believe any elected official wants to see such a thing go down, but the County Councilmembers seem to think the madness that would ensue would only fall on the BOE and not on themselves...[/quote]

It makes sense to better utilize the resources that exist presently and even reduce transportation costs in some cases all the while improving diversity when possible.[/quote]

There are very few under-enrolled schools.  Some of the people advocating this are looking at 20-50 seats in elementary schools and saying boundaries should be changed to "use" those seats.  There is a reason that MCPS considers 80-100% utilization to be ideal.  It's very hard to do a boundary change that would add only 20-50 students.  Then you get the question of how stable are these numbers and how often are you going to be doing the boundary changes?  The more frequently you do boundary changes, the more problems you have with siblings being assigned to different schools.

There are a few boundary changes that would make sense to do - Westbrook/Somerset is one.  I don't know enough about further upcounty but maybe there are a few up in the Wootton area that make sense too.  But the idea that we can get to 100% utilization in every school with boundary changes is not reasonable or feasible.  Also, the last time the Board proposed re-drawing boundaries between Gaithersburg Elementary and under-enrolled Wootton elementary schools the Gaithersburg parents were very opposed and came to the BOE and County Council meetings in a chartered bus to say so.  [/quote]

This is exactly right.  To add to it, I suspect the free space at Westbrook is being held for the inevitable enrollment increase when the Westbard project is finished (after the Save Westbard ninnys finally run out of gas, that is).  I know it's not in the catchment area currently, but none of the other nearby elementary schools have significant capacity available.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics