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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For anyone who believes something written by the current board, [b]I would remind everyone about the ES boundary changes passed last year for Gaithersburg #8[/b] and Clarksburg.

My guess is the current board will do any boundary change short-notice and with superficial talk-to-the-hand parent engagement.

Since their legal warchest seems bottomless, I doubt there is any motivation to do otherwise?[/quote]

What is it that's supposedly objectionable about the boundaries for Gaithersburg ES #8, which is now known as Harriet Tubman ES?

[url]https://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/HarrietTubmanES.pdf[/url][/quote]

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/GaithersburgES8_2ndRoundOptions.pdf
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Maybe that according to slide 3, Total Numbers of Survey Respondents was 8?

I find it difficult to believe that only 8 families cared about which school their child attends.[/quote]

Perhaps more care just not enough to fill out the survey.[/quote]

+1. Perhaps in November of 2020, residents of the Gaithersburg cluster had more pressing concerns than filling out the second boundary study survey in as many months.[/quote]

[b]Or maybe it was done in a way that people didn't understand the impact (more likely).[/b]

I believe parents normally trust the school system, thinking they act in parent's best interests.

However, the more I learn about MCPS, the more realize how politically-driven they are.

Case in point, look at the ES and MS boundaries in the slide deck.    Really strange to see broken up boundaries like that.[/quote]

What does that mean? And what does any of this have to do with Woodward, which is theoretically the topic of this thread?[/quote]

Ex. Summit Hall, Rosemont, Gaithersburg, and Mill Creek Towne are all over capacity while Washington Grove and Candlewood could absorb some of that overflow and still has crazy non-contiguous boundaries drawn.

What makes you believe Woodward would be any better?[/quote]

Well, for one thing, this was a boundary study which by design looked at options only within one cluster. And your examples are incorrect. Once the new boundaries are fully in effect, none of the Gaithersburg cluster elementary schools will be over capacity with the exception of Strawberry Knoll, which was mentioned during the board meetings as a candidate for inclusion in a future Magruder and Watkins Mill cross-cluster study, which could alleviate MCT's overcrowding, among others.

Woodward will be a much different set of circumstances, given that three to six clusters could be included in the study, and a whole new cluster could be created as a result.[/quote]

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