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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Superintendent's recommendation is up: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/Knolls_SupplementB.pdf[/quote]

That is a really confusing document regarding the MS issue because it says the recommendation is for MS articulation to “remain the same” for FKES and PCES.  So does that mean that the kids moving from FKES to PCES will articulate with Pine Crest as a whole (be re-assigned for MS too) or that the current assignments will be maintained?  And what about high school?  If I lived in the zones to be moved I’d be totally confused.[/quote]

HS was never part of this study, so those zones are remaining the same (for now).  Good question about the MS issue, but since he didn't select any of the MS options, I think whichever MS you're zoned for now remains the same.[/quote]

Right, but he phrased it as MS assignments will "stay the same for Forest Knolls, Montgomery Knolls, and Pine Crest" - but are the FK3 and FK4 zones "Forest Knolls" or "Pine Crest"?  If the recommendation is adopted, they will go to Pine Crest and if the Pine Crest MS assignment "stays the same" then those kids from FK3 and FK4 who go to Pine Crest should go to Eastern?  Or, did he mean that the MS assignments will stay the same as they are now, creating a new MKES-PCES-SSIMS-Northwood zone?  It's just a very confusing way of putting it in the report.[/quote]

Agreed.  The map is a little hard to read but if I understand it correctly, I believe that all of the neighborhoods currently zoned for Forest Knolls will still go to SSIMS and Northwood—just as they were before.  Which is a shame In my opinion because it means some kids who became friends in Kindergarten through 5th grade will branch off into different middle schools and high schools and those friendships will sort of evaporate.  I don’t like split articulation.[/quote]

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