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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I applaud the BOE's efforts to analyze cluster boundaries and to bus the W kids away to other schools so that other kids can have these opportunities regardless of where their parents can afford to buy a home. [/quote]

I had read that diversity which I assume refers to economic diversity was the number one criteria when redrawing the boundaries.[/quote]

You may have read that here on DCUM, but no, that is not accurate.[/quote]

+1. The amount of disinformation that is spread specifically about redrawing boundaries is appalling. Nobody in MCPS has ever said that "diversity" is the number one criteria when redrawing boundaries. Only fear mongers (and I am an mcps-hater who moved my kids to private pre-covid) continue to spread this nonsense. MCPS published a pre-boundary study before COVID I think, looking at different scenarios for redrawing cluster boundaries. All of these scenarios (one of which was economic diversity) included a walk zone around every school that could not be "drawn away". If you want your kids in a particular school, buy a house close to it. You will not be moved out of it if you are in the walk zone. [/quote]

I think you better take a very close look at Gaithersburg ES #8 boundaries and Clarksburg boundaries at the ES level before making a final judgement.  Everyone has their eyes on the HS boundaries, but that's not really where the issues are occurring at this moment.  You may not have noticed, but some of the recent ES boundaries (and lesser extent MS boundaries) this board approved are very wonky.  I don't trust them at all.

You also seem to forget the two high-schools coming on-line that will completely shake up Mid and DCC boundaries.  Do you seriously think that this board and sup will pass up the chance to "bring equity" and fix "discrimination" to those locations?  It's their entire and only agenda imho.  MCPS is already in shambles, so I hope you're at least voting apple ballot.[/quote]

It's really strange to point to the Gaithersburg ES #8 (now Harriet Tubman) boundaries as proof that MCPS is overly-fixated on demographics/diversity. In fact, that study had the opportunity to make significant demographic shifts but did not: included within the original scope of the study were Goshen and Laytonsville ESs. But no options were drawn up that affected either of these schools' boundaries. Why not, when including these two schools would have diversified the options for the new school much more than any others? Because to include them would have gone against the geography factor (they were considered too far away, even though they're within the same cluster), the utilization factor (neither school had overcrowding to address), and the stability factor (which is to keep boundaries the same when possible). So, if anything, these new boundaries are proof that MCPS is clearly not prioritizing diversity above all the other factors.[/quote]

Thanks for this, PP. It's interesting to me that folks keep insisting that the board is "about to" prioritize diversity over all other factors when there have been many boundary studies over the last four years that did not. In each case, there were options on the table that would have met the diversity factor at the expense of other factors, and in each case those options were discarded. [/quote]

Several of the options in the study they commissioned stated it was possible to improve diversity over the status quo in many cases with little or no impact on proximity. It made it clear they were attempting to keep transportation costs down while improving utilization and when possible improving diversity.[/quote]

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