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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thing is about home values.[/quote]

That's a big part of it, but it's also strongly connected to racism.[/quote]

How will any of this change?

Even if we "brown out" the country, likes will attract likes.  college educated?  You'll have friends and colleagues who are also in white collar professions.

And if the schools are "leveled" by race and SES, you'll find ways to send your kids to private. And you'll still be in a neighborhood with others "like you."  You'll find your people.

Humans are tribal by nature. We seek others who are like us.  And sadly, money is one way to separate folks. [/quote]

And everyone is also entitled to the same high-quality public education regardless where they live. Unfortunately, there are good and bad schools at least that’s what people on this board constantly say. Addressing this so all students can rise to their potential seem like the right thing to do. [/quote]

I have no problem with the boundary study.  However, I have watched the BOE meetings and there is a warped tendency to retaliate against W schools...I even heard one board member say something to the effect that she would like to see those W school students NEED to get more exposure to brown kids.   That's paraphrasing, but it's pretty blatant where their heads are.  I think mostly they are frustrated because they can't really touch the W schools like Churchill and Whitman.  [/quote]

Wow.  Exposure to brown kids is a form of retaliation from your perspective?  That just says it all.

Signed,
A Whitman alum who wishes there had been more brown kids like her[/quote]

I just don't see how they can pull off exposing the Churchill kids to any diversity.  They are tucked in to an area that is not adjacent to any diversity...they would truly have to bus across the county to accomplish that.  I think that is why the PP considers it to be retaliation.  And I do think the BOE has it out for the W schools...they use the term with such disdain in those meetings.[/quote]

It's easy to imagine how Churchill could pick up some diversity simply by adjusting the edges of its boundaries. It shares borders with both RMHS and Northwest HS. However, I suspect the most change will be around Woodward and the schools like Kennedy, Wheaton, Einstein and WJ that share boundaries. This will have an impact on other nearby schools like Churchill too.[/quote]

Take a closer look.  Churchill's only boundaries are with Wootton, RM, WJ, and Whitman.  I would say there is not much room for diversity there.  In order to increase diversity, they would need to "bus across the county.  Northwest HS is 13 miles away from Churchill.[/quote]

That's actually not true. Churchill borders Northwest on its SW edge and BCC on its SE. Further, Wootton's boundary is kind of oddly shaped and far from optimal. [/quote]

Wrong and wrong. Churchill only borders Whitman, WJ, Wootton, and RM. Look at the map. [/quote]

I am looking at a map that shows it borders Northwest in its SW corner and BCC on its SE and seems like it would be super easy to diversify Churchill.

https://www.zipdatamaps.com/schools/maryland/county/map-of-montgomery-county-md-high-school-attendance-zones[/quote]

It does border Northwest in the corner and given the weird shape of Wotton it's close enough that I can see that boundary being in play. On the SW though that's Whitman not BCC, but totally understand how a person might confuse them since they're pretty interchangeable.[/quote]

This map was taken from the MCPS website...so I would guess it is the most accurate.  Note there is no border between Churchill and Northwest.  Case closed.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/y6d0LQq.jpg[/img][/quote]

Looks like Churchill is very near both QO and Northwest. These present great opportunities for creating greater diversity by drawing from nearby schools.[/quote]

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