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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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, they did a pretty good job 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. [b]At the very least, I can see them changing the edge boundaries, like near Westbard (BCC)[/b] 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]

I can't speak to the rest of it.  But I live in the area near Westbard, and Westland Middle School, and I can say with absolute certainly that moving the boundary south of Little Falls (so into the Westbrook service area) will *not* make *any* school "less white."  [/quote]

Agree with above statement.

Avenel is more wealthy than Carderock. [/quote]

Avenel has a whole section of low-income housing that was mandated when Avenel was built. There's incentive to shift all Avenel to Whitman to get them in there.[/quote]

The at a glance numbers (a little out of date at this point) show Whitman and Churchill at less than 5% FARMS, WJ at 7.5% and  BCC at 11.1.  I am not sure what it would accomplish to move one bus of kids from Churchill to Whitman.  In the Seneca Valley study, the Superintendent worked to reduce the FARMS disparity among the HS clusters in the cluster and not make transportation changes that would cost the district a lot of money.  If the same criteria applied, they'd be trying to equalize the numbers in those 4 clusters at about 7.1% - hardly a problem number.[/quote]

It's not just FARMS.. remember they're focused on race also.

Whitman: 67% white
Churchill: 40% white
BCC: 57% white
WJ: 54% white

So Whitman has a target on its back for being too white for MCPS.
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