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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to see Sherwood learn to accept others not like them. They think they are too special and hope that racist bubble gets burst.[/quote]

I don't really follow things related to Sherwood. Are they bad in that regard and have protested in the past?

Their demographics looks a bit more diverse then some schools like Whitman.

The At a Glance page linked to their school profile page (as of 9/30/2022) shows Sherwood's demographic percentages as:
American Indian <=5
Asian 11.4
Black/African American 15.9
Hispanic/Latino 19.3
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander <=5
Two or More Races 5.1
White 48.2

For Whitman:
American Indian <=5
Asian 15.2
Black/African American <=5
Hispanic/Latino 12
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander <=5
Two or More Races 8
White 60.4

And at the very least they have those townhome communities across the street from Sherwood with a lot of minorities waiting for the school bus.

I think sometimes people beat up on the Sherwood and Olney areas because it used to be not diverse.  But while it's still not that diverse, it isn't as bad as people make it out to be and there's less diverse schools in the county.

It's very possible that the Sherwood did in fact resist any changes that would increase diversity for their schools.

But I'm wondering if people on here are saying families in the Sherwood area would not be happy just based on their perceived demographics of the area, which is racist too, or if Sherwood actually resisted these types of changes in the past.[/quote]

Sherwood is diverse and my minority kids are happy and thriving. Who ever is screaming about racism doesn’t have a clue and is ignorant.[/quote]

That applies to most schools here. But these DEI people are still not happy [/quote]

And they're still isolating and ignoring the problematic schools too.  ie grouping them all together in the regions, making it a weaker region overall.  Or not doing anything to improve their populations.

I'm not convinced that in the future that people won't look back and see these plans and actions as disguised racism by limiting the opportunities for students at these schools.  ie lower standards so they can't achieve anything higher then what certain people expect for them, don't give them access to the better schools that other regions have access to, etc.[/quote]

Also in terms of improving the populations, I'm referring to the initial boundary proposals.

In the initial boundary proposals (for the Crown study at least), the rich areas just stay rich or get richer.  And none of the lower performing schools sees any significant changes in their population, some of them have increased FARMS rates from their already high rates.

Then some of the proposed regions are somewhat balanced.  But two of them group all of the weaker schools together.

So don't see either the boundary studies or the proposed regions as helping with the problem areas that MCPS has.[/quote]

are you serious? What do you think MCPS can do to reduce FARMS rates in Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, even WJ, BCC and QO? These schools especially the first 3 are quite far away from lower priced housing to be able to increase FARMS rates without bussing kids in and out SIGNIFICANT distances. You’d be talking about adding 30-60 minutes each day of travel time to bring kids from day Silver Spring to Whitman or Gaithersburg HS to Churchill. How is that good for the students or the community at large (added traffic/costs)?

A better solution is to promote affordable housing options in certain areas, but even that is a challenge when in many of these school clusters there’s barely any new development.[/quote]

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