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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems to be what MCPS is trying to do. They hate that they have "good schools" because that means they have "bad schools."

This effort is about carving out boundaries for new properties (great), alleviating overcrowding (wonderful), but a heaping helping of "let's use this opportunity to change perceptions because we are out of ideas."

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Or, let’s change boundaries because now is the opportune time to do so as we haven’t had a massive review and realignment of them in multiple decades and they were gerrymandered then.[/quote]

It isnt a "massive review" because there are entire schools (Sherwood, Paint Branch, Springbrook) with capacity that are not included in either study. Right off the bat, MCPS is violating policy FAA by not considering all its capacity.

And it is far from an opportune time because of the loss of jobs and contracts by MoCo residents has created a great deal of uncertainty that make it both inopportune and a bad look politically to raise taxes to pay for "massive realignment."

Sure add new boundaries for the new schools but don't waste my tax dollars on a boondoggle because maybe/hopefully/Inshallah it will improve test scores. [/quote]

It's not a boondoggle when we have hundreds of millions of dollars tied up in building these two new schools and they need to be filled. When you take the kids from the closest schools, then they need to get more kids into those schools and it impacts the next group of schools and so on. The wootton parents crying about their boundaries are stupid - some of them are CLOSER to Crown than Wootton, Crown has been programmed for year- the land decision was made well over 10 years ago so any current school parent should have known this was going to happen at some point.

Spare me the tears and fears and stop with the BS that we need to leave them be because it's a hard time with federal government cuts. You know who is ACTUALLY having a hard time? The kids at Wheaton and Kennedy whose parents are being deported from their immigration check-in appointments. Your kid who has tutors and travel sports and Kumon will be fine whether they're at Churchill, Wootton, or Crown.

Stop whining.[/quote]

Moving kids from Wootton to Crown will not help those kids who go to Wheaton and Kennedy, or their parents.  These are two irrelevant things. [/quote]

I never said it would. I am saying that when I think of whose traumas I care about more, the traumas of rich, entitled, whiny wootton and churchill parents are nowhere on my list. You all sound so ridiculously entitled and tone-deaf crying that your precious children might have to mix with kids from other neighborhoods? Give me a break. Other people have real problems. This is not a real problem.[/quote]

Wasteful spending is a legitimate concern because there is a vast amount of historical evidence to point too (electric buses anyone?), and I call observing that costly, lengthy and unnecessary travel times will have all sorts of unintended consequences "foresight."  Attacking people personally who raise these legitimate concerns actually reveals that you do not have sound counter arguments. Please keep it up. [/quote]

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