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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After a few clicks, I see that we are zoned for RM now, and under no option is that changing.  Being in walk zone that makes sense.  So, my only responsibility is to pop some popcorn and season it right and watch the school board members try to out-woke each other for the next 6 months changing up the school zones.  I cant wait to hear the feedback on Woodward-3. To be honest even some of the RM options are islanding and nonsensical.  But I dont have a dog in this hunt.[/quote]

Same here. I have a student in RM now and the school is totally overcrowded, none of the options really address that. IMHO splitting Ritchie Park makes the most sense for RM cluster (Options 2 and 4).
On a separate note, it is impossible to actually believe MCPS tables, when you look at utilization and and other percentages in HS impact tables, RM has exactly the same numbers of students and utilization percentages as Gaithersburg HS, despite being different sizes. Something is off there. As a veteran of Bayard Rustin study, in my experience MCPS numbers/tables are only correct or look at right data about only half of the time.[/quote]

.Your opinion is pretty terrible. Splitting Ritchie Park is absolutely the worst, especially Option 2! The school doesn't even have 400 kids. It's like 60 per grade. When you split it, the southern portion probably has about half the students, so, 30 per grade. You take those 30 kids and put them in Cabin John MS, where they only know the 60 kids from the older grades that came in from RPES. SO they don't even know 10% of their schoolmates. Then they get to know them over a couple years only to be moved out again as a group of 30 to RM, where they join the rest of the current cluster that has a close-knit relationship with each other. In that group of 2000, they only know 120 of the kids, 6%!

The cabin john assignment of option 2 for RPES will lead to the exclusion of RPES-boundary students from many community activities and clubs that were already formed from neighborhood kids[/quote]
Cold Spring ES currently have split articulation back to Wootton HS after going to Cabin John MS.  Are these kids excluded from community activities and clubs when they go to Wootton?[/quote]

Yes, actually. Competition things for stuff like robotics leagues that span through high school will prefer to keep the same kids together. Plus, the split articulation of Cold Spring to CJMS to Wooton is part of a larger group. SO the Cold Spring students move AS A LARGER GROUP with others in CJMS to Wootton, so it isn't like they go to Wootton knowing nobody but their original Cold Spring group. Also, I personally know of bullying that occurs at CJMS where the kids who go to Churchill bully the ones who go to Wootton as inferior. [/quote]
That doesn't seem to stop people from buying into the Cold Spring neighborhood, though, where home values are $1.2mil+.  Apparently, even with the split articulation, homebuyers prefer that to, say, buying into the next neighborhood that goes to RM where there is currently no split articulation.[/quote]
Good point.[/quote]

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