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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Sure it will. They'll re-draw the boundaries to include the public housing complex on River Road across from the 7-11 (near Little Falls Parkway). If they want to get even more drastic, they'll include the low-income housing between Bradley Boulevard and Bethesda Ave (behind Bethesda Crab House). I've been near both when the buses let off, and it's an entire busload of kids for each of those stops, at least at elementary level. [/quote]
What “public housing complex” are you talking about? That’s a condominium.[/quote]

The County owns the entire building. That's why there's the whole "Save Westbard" and related movement to get the county to hand over the complex's parking lot to the Macedonia church right next to it, as they claim there's an African American cemetery located under it.
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PP is talking about Westwood Towers apartments without knowing where Westwood Towers apartments is.[/quote]Westwood Towers is also not public housing.[/quote]

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