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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just hope they don't redistrict QO with any striver schools. Purposely avoided buying in Wootton and Walter Johnson because of all the tiger moms and academic culture. Football, D1 sports, and parents who like to hang out at the beach and tanning salons for fun is the vibe. I think everyone chose their school and neighborhood because it matched their vibe, and they should be allowed to say. [/quote]

While I agree that we bought where we did because of these factors and don't want to change that, if it ultimately MAKES SENSE to change, then it needs to. The problem is that these options operate under the improper constraint that ES boundaries cannot change.[/quote]

Yes and as a result this process is like trying to solve one of those puzzles where when you put a piece in another pops out elsewhere. Some ES are wacky and large. In Wootton, Churchill, RM alone the following elementary schools should be redrawn. These are all significantly under capacity.

- Potomac
- Wayside 
- Coldspring
- Beverly Farms
- Seven Locks (weird Avenel island)
- Travilah
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I remember when they were doing redistricting for the new Rustin ES and for years Ritchie Park was severely overcrowded with 6 portables. And so were many other RM ES and Cold Spring was a possible closure for severe under-enrollment. Someone brought up why are you looking to move Horizon Hill (the neighborhood behind Wootton and walkable to Cold Spring, to Rustin in one plan?!? Further than both Ritchie and Cold.

Like why is RP sitting a few hundred over capacity and a school closer and walkable a few hundred under capacity. And the first thought is let’s bus them further away to a new ES.

These boundary maps have always been insane and with no common sense.  [/quote]

That was option 4 and it was to bus us to twinbrook [/quote]
That option was a total non starter, but because they threw that in there, half the time at the meeting was spent on that option by the HH folks.

Why does MCPS throw in ridiculous options that cause so much wasted time and effort?  [/quote]

I'm a HH resident who spoke against it. We didn't think it was likely they would select that option, but the impact would have been terrible if they did. So we all spoke loudly against it. It had Twinbrook and HH crossing each other to the other school. They only put it there to show that there could be no way to truly balance socioeconomic diversity, since the Twinbrook area and the RPES southern areas were each right next to their respective schools, but had vastly different socioeconomic status.[/quote]

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