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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Churchill is 7 miles from Crown, it’s not in the vicinity. 
Whitman, Walter Johnson, Wootton, Woodward, BCC, Richard Montgomery are all much closer to Churchill than Crown.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To your question option H gives them a chance so they should be making their voices heard. Options A-D are worse for Dufief.[/quote]

Options E-G also keep Dufief with Wootton. IMO G is a non starter but I’m 100% on board with E and F right now. H won’t happen and A-D split the cluster.  [/quote]

And that is how it should be - MCPS splitting up clusters to fill Crown. You cannot have all black and Hispanic population alone go to Crown. It needs to be diverse. Every highschool cluster in Crown's vicinity should be broken up

What makes Wootton and Churchill so special? Don't answer that.[/quote][/quote]

Okay I will rephrase that - What makes Wootton so special?

I checked google maps and Wootton is 3.8 miles from Crown and 3.4 miles from Churchill. 0.4 miles is Negligible. Wootton is also the closest to Crown.

Crown:
Wootton - 3.8 miles
Gaithersburg HS - 4.5 miles 
QO - 4.4 miles

These three schools should be the ones filling up Crown. Wootton is not that special. Churchill is overcrowded and MCPS cannot send kids from Wootton to Churchill when they can easily send them to Crown which was built to address overcrowding. MCPS is 100% right with offering modified Option H to Wootton to kill 2 birds with one stone - the safety issues due to mold at Wootton as well as over crowding in Gaithersburg and QO.

Wootton parents put up a stink only because they don't want to mix with brown and hispanic and low ses.

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Coming to Woodward:
Walter Johnson - 1.6 miles
Churchill - 3.2 miles
Wheaton - 3.9 miles
Richard Montgomery - 4.0 miles
Rockville High school - 4.2 miles
Kennedy 5.6 miles

Obviously the rezoning here should happen between Walter Johnson, Churchill, Wheaton, Richard Montgomery and maybe Rockville 
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Churchill:
Woodward - 3.2 miles
Walter Johnson - 3.3 miles
*Wootton - 3.4 miles
Richard Montgomery - 3.8 miles

Among these only Wootton is close to Crown, so Wootton cannot be part of the Woodward study and belongs in the Crown study and the other three should be part of Woodward study.

I'm not familiar with the Woodward study but I hope this is what MCPS is doing.[/quote]

The fact that they set things up so that they have no options for moving neighborhoods between Churchill and Whitman is all anyone needs to know to see that their scoping of the boundary studies was woefully insufficient.  And have you heard about the ridiculous unaddressed overcrowding situation at Blake?

It isn't that some schools belong in one study or another more, it's that [i]all[/i] schools should have been involved in a single study from the beginning.  Elementaries too, as they are setting themselves up for more failure by first constraining the secondary boundaries to inefficient fixed elementary boundaries (or limiting split articulations, there) and then coming back in a year to do elementary boundaries that will be artificially constrained by the then-fixed but inefficient (due to the prior elementary constraint) secondary boundaries they will have chosen.

The system needs to be doing this overall adjustment about once a decade.  That would tend to have more incremental effect.  It's been far, far too long, and the large disruptions seen for some communities in the current effort are a result.[/quote]

I'm not very familiar with Blake or the DCC schools. Please enlighten me on what is happening with Blake.

When I googled, Whitman alone was further away from everything other than Walter Johnson so I didn't think it made sense for MCPS to include Whitman in the Woodward study. But Churchill ad Walter Johnson definitely should be part of any rezoning.

Not very familiar with these schools other than Churchill, Whitman and Walter Johnson being in the richest part of the county with mostly rich kids. Is WJ supposed to be the weakest of these three and Whitman kids wouldn't want to got to WJ?

I agree that they should not be protected because they are rich and if it made sense to pull their feeders to Woodward, it should be done.

This is a chance for MCPS to rezone everyone since there are 2 schools involved.

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