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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi!  (Waves)

Another Northwest parent concerned about redistricting used as a social experiment on our children in order for some MCPS BOE official to become a congress(wo)man based on marginal and meaningless improvement in achievement gap in Seneca Valley.

Yes, we will do our best to protest any gerrymandering ideas by the BOE.  It may not help, but we will try.  If it does not help, we'll move at a loss of property value.  We did not raise our children to become stepping stones for someone's political agenda.  We may not end up winning this fight, but neither will the BOE.[/quote]

Have you looked at the existing Northwest HS boundaries?
 
http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/NorthwestHS.pdf

They are ALREADY "gerrymandered". People complained about it bitterly in before Northwest HS opened: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/09/15/montgomery-struggles-with-school-borders/93e60665-4a07-4a6e-aff7-e0282a064d8c/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f40b70f00011

The "social experiment", in this case, is rearranging students in Clarksburg and Germantown among 3 high schools so that the high schools aren't over capacity. That doesn't sound very radical to me.

But if you can't stand it and want to move, that's your choice. MCPS and the Board of Education do not, and should not, consider the effect of their boundary recommendations on your property values.[/quote]

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