Reply to Pyle/Whitman or Westland/BCC cluster better fit?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Pyle/Whitman or Westland/BCC cluster better fit?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You ought to be careful about moving to of these schools/clusters as a way to get into the desired schools. Depending on how the Board of Ed election turns out tomorrow, MCPS could see a lot of redistricting in order to try to even out schools across the county and make more equitable the distribution of what folks on this thread are pointing to as reasons why Whitman, BCC, Pyle, etc. have "the best" in the state. [/quote]

Well, you gotta pick a school at some point, don’t you?[/quote]

No. The point is that you pick a neighborhood, house, apartment building, condo, etc. and you don't "pick a school". That's the kind of thinking that perpetuates the inequities across the county's schools.[/quote]

I can pick whatever school I want. You don’t dictate where and why someone chooses to live. [/quote]

Of course I don't. I didn't say I did. I simply said that there is some degree of likelihood that your attempt to "pick whatever school I want" doesn't actually work out because you can't technically "pick a school". You can pick a neighborhood, a house, a cluster, an apartment building that, today, will guarantee your kids go to a particular school but that guarantee is only as good as the Board of Ed's desire to redistrict schools. So, no, I don't dictate where and why someone chooses to live in a particular place. But the BoE sure does dictate where kids go to school depending on where they live. Not you.[/quote]

Neither do you. Don’t tell anyone to not pick a school “in case” it may change. You have to pick. You deflected that you want people to choose schools that are not desirable for them bc your hypocrisy in your attempts to guilt trip others into picking poorer schools. [/quote]

Oh, ok. I’ll just pretend on these threads where people are making one of the most significant choices in their lives (where to buy/rent a place to live) that their choice to prioritize school placement is a great, iron-clad idea because the school to which they’re assigned will never change. [/quote]

Good, keep on pretending that you don’t have to make a choice at some point. Or you can go on stewing forever that your school will change, therefore never pick a school and stay home. [/quote]

You're the one pretending that you get to "choose a school"; I'm trying to educate people that you don't actually choose a school, you choose a place to live that, as of now, sends kids to a particular school but that will change. So, if I'm a single Mom with limited resources to pay for housing, I might want to take a look at the school boundary map so that I don't stretch my budget to live in a particular school cluster, only to have it switched on me 2 years later. Maybe the house that's located more centrally within the cluster would be a better choice, since that's less likely to be redistricted. Since when is making informed decisions "staying home and never picking a school". [/quote]

Op sounds very comfortable and could be getting a lot in child support.  You get school choice for high school with down county.  [/quote]

What is down county and I’ve not heard of mcps giving school choice. [/quote]

The downcounty consortium (DCC). You could live in downtown Silver Spring with an easy commute to DC. High school is a bit more complicated, as you have a "home school" for high school with a guaranteed spot based on where you live, but there also are both choice and magnet options within the 5- high school consortium. Einstein HS also has the IB program. Schools are diverse and welcoming to families from all different backgrounds and offer challenging coursework for high achievers. In a few years, there will be a new high school (Woodward HS), which will pull from the DCC and Walter Johnson clusters, so there may be some changes in boundaries. [/quote]

What is dcc? [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics