Reply to School Boundaries

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "School Boundaries"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

How is balancing numbers a social agenda?  Both Clarksburg and Northwest are huge and overcapacity while Seneca Valley is smaller.  [/quote]

If the BOE chooses nearby neighborhoods, that is normal an expected.  If they make islands and "fingers" to balance out diversity, community and commute times be damned, that is gerrymandering and social experimentation.  The BOE just expanded the boundary study to include all middle schools, not just the adjacent ones as was originally proposed.[/quote]

The BOE voted to prioritize diversity when remaking boundaries. If you want to call it gerrymandering by all means, but that's a matter of policy at this point.[/quote]

That is exactly why so many parents bitterly opposed it.

Look, if MCPS wants to change its mission from raising the professionals of tomorrow to raising future blue collar workers, with the top students in that cohort occasionally squeeking into good colleges playing the URM card and then failing out the first year, eventually educated parents will get the message and move.   It happened in Boston and in San Francisco.

What does MoCo offer?  Easy commute to jobs + good schools.  The jobs are already in VA and DC.  MoCo is already a bedroom community with education as its primary industry.  Mess with that, and parents will move, gutting your tax base.

If MCPS chooses to turn the entire county into one big Wheaton, it can be done.

It can happen here.[/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