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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not watch the hearing, but recently heard from a neighbor that there is growing advocacy to push for option B.  Is there truth to this and did it come up in the public meeting?  That option would be terrible for our neighborhood- we are walking sitance to Sligo but kids would be sent to SSIMS- I don't know why that was thrown out there as a potential option to begin with.  So overall I was ok with Taylor's recommendation as it relates to our neighborhood.  It's just hard to keep up with the changes and to anticipate what MCPS will throw out there next.  The options for our neighborhood changed pretty drastically from the first to second round and caught a lot of people off guard.[/quote]

There is some push for original Option B with regard to the now Current WJ cluster (sounds mainly like the Farmland/Luxmanor crew at the BOE mtg), not necessarily rest of map (but clearly would send WW back to Wheaton High).[/quote]

Wasn't there someone from Silver Spring who mentioned it too?  Either way, there were definitely SSiMS folks who wanted to increase the number of kids assigned to SSIMS and wanted to go back to one of the original maps, and I can't imagine the Board would choose the option B map for WJ/Wheaton and a totally different map for Silver Spring...[/quote]

There was also someone who, frankly, seemed pretty unhinged and possibly racist from Flora Singer who testified asking to go back to original Option B because she wanted to stay at Einstein and was mad about being assigned to Northwood which she thought wouldn't have any rigor (she seemed to have very negative views of Northwood which are not backed up at all by anyone I know with kids there.) As someone from Flora Singer myself it was very frustrating because I don't think she's representative of what Singer families want at all but she was the only one who testified so I worry that the Board will think Flora Singer families want option B too.  (Yes, I emailed, but I don't know that it holds the same weight as testimony.)[/quote]

Yes, I was pretty shocked by this lady. My kids don't go to Flora Singer, but we live in the neighborhood very close to the school. She has some weird ideas about IB at Einstein. Haven't heard any of my neighbors worried about this. Most would be fine with either Einstein or Northwood.[/quote]

When they decrease Einstein's numbers, most likely they will remove the few remaining Stem classes as the principal and some of the VP's don't make that a prioirty and with less students, less funding and less teachers.[/quote]

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