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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain why activities or sports might be affected due to school change? I have been the one picking up and dropping off my kid at school and sports/activities because kid is at ES. Do kids at MS or HS go to activities/sports by themselves with biking/walking/taking bus? I am expecting that they still need parents to drive them around until they have their own transportation. [/quote]

I posted about it in this thread on 6/4/2025 at 15:43 and will copy and paste below at the end of my comment.

But basically for our neighborhood's case, our kids would go to elementary school in Rockville, originally slated to go to a high school in Rockville.  But under some proposed changes, they will go to the elementary school and middle school in Rockville and be a small group of 5-10 students in their grade that they went to elementary school with to go to the new high school in Gaithersburg.

Gaithersburg and Rockvlle have two different set of groups and organizations that provide the same services.  And most people pick one based on region. ie if you live in Gaithersburg/Germantown, chances are you'll do SAM soccer.  Rockville and south will do MSI.

Part of the things I hoped my kids would get out of after school activities is to interact with their classmates outside of a school setting.  For example I see one team of players that will go to Rockville High and see how they all basically will be together from grades K through 12 together and they do everything together.  And you see it how they run from activity to activity together and how their families all know each other and are friends.  I often look at them and wonder if they know how lucky they are to have this type of lifelong friendship.

But with these proposed split articulation proposals, my kid would potentially be split off from the rest of the classmates they knew since elementary school. So it's okay right, I'll just sign them up for groups in this new high school area.  But no one will know him or vice versa, as well as us and other families.  This is compared to the leagues they're currently in, where we've been in them long enough where we recognize and know the families on various teams.  It's one of the reasons why I picked a more local organization compared to one run by the county.

Even for community service, I was going to have them volunteer for a food bank in the area that sponsors one of the activities they do.  But there is a similar food bank in the other city that their high school is in.  So should I have them volunteer for the organization that sponsored their activity to help with that community feel.  Or to the food bank that serves the actual community that their school is in?

I'm kind of typing quickly but that's my basic issue with the matter.  The copy and paste of my previous comment is below:

In regards to the previous commens about Wayside and Wootton, I think one of the things that doesn't look like is being taken into account these initial options is the community or neighborhood feel.

Parts of the area that go to Wayside are borderline Wootton.

But the school itself and likely the majority of the area is right around the corner from the Potomac Community Center. When my kids had activities at Wayside it took me less then five minutes, if even that, to get from Wayside ES to the community center where I hung around there while they were at the activity.

So it's likely that families in that area do activities more in the Potomac area and with most of the students going to Churchill.

One benefit of activities is that it does give my kids opportunities to interact with kids from other areas where they would likely never have.

But one of the things we hoped to get out of activities is for our kids to interact with their classmates and neighbors outside of school. That helps build the camaraderie and friendships in school.

It's likewise for the northwestern area of Wootton near the Gaithersburg/North Potomac/Rockville divide. Gaithersburg and Rockville have their own separate organizations. Such as for baseball UMAC (Uppper Montgomery Baseball Club) vs RBBA (Rockville Baseball Association), MSI (Montgomery Soccer Inc) vs SAM (Soccer Association of Maryland), Gaithersburg City rec sports and camps vs Rockville City rec sports and camps. For our family we're at the point where we recognize a lot of the other families in the leagues on other teams and makes the area seem a lot smaller because you see them around and helps with the community feel. And the leagues and organizations in the other city seems like a while another world to us.

So in some of the proposals, they have students attending a school in one city, where most of the students probably do activities in a particular area. But then move a subset of the students from that school into another area, where the majority of students from that area are involved in other organizations for the same type of activities.

They should at the very least keep students from the same elementary school together. 
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Please share your story with MCPS[/quote]

At the risk of doxxing myself this is one of the issues that I am trying to emphasize.  That and there is no way I will let my kids walk to Crown High school, having to cross Darnestown Road, Great Seneca Highway and and Key West Ave (28), all three of which are major commuter routes in our area[/quote]

Also if you believe that we have a justifiable concern, please sign the petition for our community:

https://www.change.org/p/don-t-divide-lakewood-keep-all-our-community-together-in-wootton[/quote]

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