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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Wayside parent who is unhappy with the changes.

Wootton is a great school, but it’s an extra 20 minutes away from our house. Falls Road is already super congested, especially during rush hour.

My kids can walk and bike to Churchill, but definitely can’t to Wootton.

Hoover and Churchill are right next to each other. They literally share a field. It makes no sense to break Hoover up.

Under all four scenarios, I will have kids in middle school at Hoover and high school at Wooton at the same time.  Coordinating pick ups from after school school programs is going to get harder, and will add to traffic on Falls Road.

[b]And it sad that my kids will make a bunch of friends at Hoover and then have to leave them behind.  [/b]

I have neighbors whose siblings are going to get split up.  They’ll be waiting for different buses to take them to different schools in the mornings.

I know these aren’t huge problems in the grand scheme of things, but it’s a really disruptive change and doesn’t make geographic sense. 
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This is the problem.  People on this board have talked for years about how bad split articulation is for Cabin John.  Giving guidance to people asking about which school district to buy into to avoid CJ for this reason.  Now it looks like they're just shifting the problem to Hoover.  I guess this will inevitably happen in the capacity of Churchill is less than the capacity for CJ+Hoover. One of them will either have to split or will have to be severely undercapacity.  Or I guess they could have only one MS flow into Churchill and then expand the special programs (either special ed or some smallish magnet program) to bring students in from other parts of the broader MCPS district.

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Actually, the split articulation could be gotten rid of at both schools if they made one of them (Hoover or CJ) a special magnet (for instance, an honors magnet like Eastern and Takoma Park).  That would be popular in this part of the county, where people are annoyed to have to send their kid so far away for a magnet.  The magnet kids would go back to their home HS at the end of MS (which their parents would be opting into voluntarily.) One of the ESs currently zoned for Hoover/CJ could be reallocated to a different MS (for instance, Wayside to Frost).  Those kids would benefit because they'd be away from split articulation.  So all of Hoover and CJ (minus the magnet kids) would fit into Churchill.

Of course, there are cascading effects down the line (some other ES would be moved from Frost to another MS, and so on).  I don't know enough about what the rest of the district looks like to know if that causes problems down the line or not[/quote]

A magnet school in a wealthy area is a non-starter in MCPS in 2025.[/quote]

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