Reply to Do the recommendations re: BCC boundary study come out today?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Do the recommendations re: BCC boundary study come out today?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are always people who live close to a school who aren't zoned for it-- it's almost mathematically impossible to send everyone to the closest school.  I know families a couple blocks from Westland that go to Pyle.  Complaining about that at this point is beside the point.[/quote]

Yes.  I live in Kensington.  We are bisected with three different school districts.

If Montgomery County was structured at the town level rather than the county level, like Massachusetts, then we could incorporate all of 20895 plus whatever Garret Park into our own little city and then all go to Kensington Parkwood, New Middle School and Einstein together.  That would be great.  But that is not reality and no other area in Montgomery County is structured like that.[/quote]

:roll: There are more sections of Kensington and the 20895 zip code but I guess those don't qualify in your mind.  Not everyone wants to be a part of the Town, which is why we bought out of bounds.[/quote]

You misread my post.  20895 is coterminous with all areas that have a Kensington address.  Much larger than the Town.  I also don't live in the Town and none of the schools I mentioned are actually in the very small Town boundaries.  I was suggesting a different form of political governance, based on large towns rather than a county.  This is common in other parts of our country, like in New England.  There are positives and negatives of each approach, but people tend to be more involved in local government if power is devolved, so on the whole that would be my preference.

The Town right now is really silly, it's only 2,000 people and had no real power.  I was envisioning a larger incorporated area of 25,000 with its own schools, police, etc.  But I was also suggesting this will never happen, so given the county's current governance structure there is no logical reason to reorganize school boundaries without devolved political power to run the new Kensington schools that PP was envisioning.

Also, for other PP, my post was incorrect when I said it was three "districts." I meant three clusters.  Thanks for clarifying.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics