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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure how this thread got derailed, but yes, there is a boundary study underway.

I suggest you make your voice heard. Here are the upcoming community meetings:
https://mcpsweb.wufoo.com/forms/districtwide-boundary-analysis-public-meetings/

The past meetings, [b]they did a pretty good job[/b] filling them with students compared to homeowners, and students are largely in favor of redistricting for "equity" reasons, ignoring the effects of busing and property values.

As for the W schools, they're gunning for them, especially Whitman which has the highest percentage of white students in of any high school in MoCo. You can bet they want to change that. At the very least, I can see them changing the edge boundaries, like near Westbard (BCC) and Carderock/Avenel (Churchill), and probably a bit in the Bradley Hills/NIH area too (mostly WJ).

WJ's gonna get hit for sure. If you look at their boundaries, there's a carve-out in Kensington so those kids end up at WJ instead of the nearest school (Einstein?). Then we have the Woodward thing as another poster mentioned.

Now is the time to get involved. Go to those meetings, write to your BOE members, etc.

Yesterday for example, the BOE voted on new boundaries for the Seneca Valley area. The vote was 7-1, with Smondrowski voting against the boundary changes. [/quote]

"They" who?

Students are the ones who actually ride the buses, so I don't know what "effects of busing" you think they're ignoring.

And the students - or at least the ones I heard - are not ignoring property values. They're explicitly addressing property values, specifically that the school district is not a mechanism for maintaining your property values.[/quote]

At the last meeting, t[b]he speaker list was set up so all the students spoke first,[/b] then everyone else at the end. Why not alternate it throughout the evening?

If the school district isn't a mechanism for property values, then it should not be a mechanism for social engineering either.

The board is elected to serve the people. The people want to board to consider property values. They should.[/quote]

That's how they do it, so the students can speak and go home.

ALL school boundaries are social engineering. The current school boundaries are social engineering.

If the people want the Board of Education to consider property values, then the people can vote for Board of Education candidates who promise to add property values to the regulation about factors to be considered in boundary studies.[/quote]

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