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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Split articulation is without a doubt a terrible thing. In the present, we know it creates bullying situations. For example, at CJMS, there is a clear negative situation where Churchill-bound students bully the Wootton-bound students. Creating this for MORE high schools will only make it much worse. In addition, splitting kids apart to join a new group only to split them back off again to join another group (Option 2 does that) will significantly impact cohort cohesion. The students won't make strong bonds. After-school activities and extracurriculars will be impacted because teams will be split anyway. This is just bad[/quote]

Wow that’s awful as someone who went CJMS to Churchill in late 90s when it was close to 65-70% going to Wootton and the rest going to Churchill I don’t remember it being pro Wootton crazy. Is the split currently closer to 50/50?

I was very saddened to leave a lot of the new friends I made for those three years but after a few months at Churchill all was well and I ended up losing touch with most of my CJMS to Wootton friends. Feel like the best possible split is to have a at least 35-40% from an ES split and join another MS where they continue on with kids through HS, so it’s 6 years and then 7 years together. Being a small subset of a MS that splits to HS is far less desirable IMO since more established friendships and you spent 9 years with people to leave them.

Biggest problem is lack of elementary boundary review as there are some whacky large ones for sure that are likely causing this to occur.

Also they should have looked at the entire county in either smaller chunks or included additional schools. Like doesn’t make sense to have a dividing line between Churchill at WJ or Churchill and Whitman when lots of kids are far closer to those two schools from Churchill. Or for not including Magruder in the study.[/quote]

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