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

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

And really, they barely did that. They simply used the word '[b]especially[/b]': "Options should especially [b]strive [/b]to create a diverse student body in each of the affected schools...."
The other three factors are still there, just as they were before.  They will still be taking geographic proximity into account, while especially striving to create that diverse student body. [/quote]
prioritize... especially... semantecs really.

Why not "strive to keep proximity" rather than "striving for diversity"... because they put more importance on diversity over proximity. [/quote]

Maybe diversity is more important than proximity.  Which is not to say they should do county wide busing.  The boundaries for NW, SV and Clarksburg can be re-drawn keeping proximity in mind.  [/quote]
Not arguing that it is or isn't just that clearly, MCPS is putting more importance on diversity than anything else.  And it's not "barely".

People should also keep in mind that for low income families, not living within walking distance to schools would be a hardship for them.[/quote]

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