Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is against a boundary change based on geographic reasons. Why would you live in MoCo if you are a racist? Plenty of places to live if you only want to be with your own. What people are annoyed by is putting diversity as the number one priority - which the board did without public comment.

http://northpotomacnews.org/?p=861

Then the Board hires a company that only has done diversity realignments - not boundary studies based on geography.

Then - even though you can buy a house anywhere in the county the extreme liberals say it is segregated (although county does nothing about actually changing this at a housing policy level). So rational folks from all backgrounds are seeing this for what it is - pols in a one party state trying to get a promotion by motivating their base. Nothing more. Finally squishy evidence that having a bright kid sit next to a new immigrant helps the new immigrant at all.

Well they didn't do that, so no reason to be annoyed.

Yes the did. Read MCPS policy FAA directly from their own website:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/faa.pdf

Page 7:

Analyses of options take into account the impact of various options on the
overall populations of affected schools. Options should especially strive to
create a diverse student body in each of the affected schools in alignment
with Board Policy ACD, Quality Integrated Education

Emphasis mine. That word was added at the last minute, and was not in the original draft.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is against a boundary change based on geographic reasons. Why would you live in MoCo if you are a racist? Plenty of places to live if you only want to be with your own. What people are annoyed by is putting diversity as the number one priority - which the board did without public comment.

http://northpotomacnews.org/?p=861

Then the Board hires a company that only has done diversity realignments - not boundary studies based on geography.

Then - even though you can buy a house anywhere in the county the extreme liberals say it is segregated (although county does nothing about actually changing this at a housing policy level). So rational folks from all backgrounds are seeing this for what it is - pols in a one party state trying to get a promotion by motivating their base. Nothing more. Finally squishy evidence that having a bright kid sit next to a new immigrant helps the new immigrant at all.

Well they didn't do that, so no reason to be annoyed.

Analyses of options take into account the impact of various options on the
overall populations of affected schools. Options should especially strive to
create a diverse student body in each of the affected schools in alignment
with Board Policy ACD, Quality Integrated Education

Anonymous wrote:

Quoting from the Dec. 11th email from MCPS:

"No Recommendations for Boundary Changes: Contrary to misinformation that is circulating in our community, the final report WILL NOT include recommendations for boundary changes/student reassignment. MCPS did not request and will not accept any recommendations for boundary changes/student reassignment. MCPS will use the data and research in the report to inform future boundary studies."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is against a boundary change based on geographic reasons. Why would you live in MoCo if you are a racist? Plenty of places to live if you only want to be with your own. What people are annoyed by is putting diversity as the number one priority - which the board did without public comment.

http://northpotomacnews.org/?p=861

Then the Board hires a company that only has done diversity realignments - not boundary studies based on geography.

Then - even though you can buy a house anywhere in the county the extreme liberals say it is segregated (although county does nothing about actually changing this at a housing policy level). So rational folks from all backgrounds are seeing this for what it is - pols in a one party state trying to get a promotion by motivating their base. Nothing more. Finally squishy evidence that having a bright kid sit next to a new immigrant helps the new immigrant at all.

Yep, this is about right, IMO.

The BOE and MCPS hired a company that focuses on diversity and the BOE/MCPS hyper-focus on race has led to some poor decisions in the past. Parents (of varying races) have an intense distrust of the BOE and MCPS leadership. They have a proven track record of not basing decisions on what will be in the best interest of students. Also, a history of putting optics and politics above actual useful initiatives.

Anonymous wrote:No one is against a boundary change based on geographic reasons. Why would you live in MoCo if you are a racist? Plenty of places to live if you only want to be with your own. What people are annoyed by is putting diversity as the number one priority - which the board did without public comment.

http://northpotomacnews.org/?p=861

Then the Board hires a company that only has done diversity realignments - not boundary studies based on geography.

Then - even though you can buy a house anywhere in the county the extreme liberals say it is segregated (although county does nothing about actually changing this at a housing policy level). So rational folks from all backgrounds are seeing this for what it is - pols in a one party state trying to get a promotion by motivating their base. Nothing more. Finally squishy evidence that having a bright kid sit next to a new immigrant helps the new immigrant at all.

The consultants will not recommend any specific boundary changes.....

Instead, they will provide a synopsis of how MCPS schools are used, their socioeconomic composition and community members’ thoughts about the project. Data will be compared to similarly sized school districts across the country.

“Their charge was not to tell us what boundaries to change,” school board Vice President Brenda Wolff

Anonymous wrote:No one is against a boundary change based on geographic reasons. Why would you live in MoCo if you are a racist? Plenty of places to live if you only want to be with your own. What people are annoyed by is putting diversity as the number one priority - which the board did without public comment.

http://northpotomacnews.org/?p=861

Then the Board hires a company that only has done diversity realignments - not boundary studies based on geography.

Then - even though you can buy a house anywhere in the county the extreme liberals say it is segregated (although county does nothing about actually changing this at a housing policy level). So rational folks from all backgrounds are seeing this for what it is - pols in a one party state trying to get a promotion by motivating their base. Nothing more. Finally squishy evidence that having a bright kid sit next to a new immigrant helps the new immigrant at all.

Anonymous wrote:No one is against a boundary change based on geographic reasons. Why would you live in MoCo if you are a racist? Plenty of places to live if you only want to be with your own. What people are annoyed by is putting diversity as the number one priority - which the board did without public comment.

http://northpotomacnews.org/?p=861

Then the Board hires a company that only has done diversity realignments - not boundary studies based on geography.

Then - even though you can buy a house anywhere in the county the extreme liberals say it is segregated (although county does nothing about actually changing this at a housing policy level). So rational folks from all backgrounds are seeing this for what it is - pols in a one party state trying to get a promotion by motivating their base. Nothing more. Finally squishy evidence that having a bright kid sit next to a new immigrant helps the new immigrant at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS has had recent significant growth, while use of facilities is uneven. Some schools are overcrowded and some underutilized. The district hired a consultant to review all current boundaries with an eye to how they affect overcrowding, diversity, and students’ proximity to their schools. The consultants will not recommend any boundary changes and the county will not make any boundary changes during this initial process.

Parents on DCUM and Facebook groups have spread the rumor that children will be bussed far from home in order to balance out school demographics, and that their home values will suffer as a result. MCPS has specifically responded that they are only looking at schools and clusters adjacent to one another and have no intention of bussing students across the county.

Isn't WXY Studios supposed to make some sort of recommendations as far as boundary options go. BOE has said this isn't a recommendation for a boundary change, but BOE is also asking for recommendations.

The amount of misinformation in the public is so vast that I can't keep the correct / factual information straight in my head.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS has had recent significant growth, while use of facilities is uneven. Some schools are overcrowded and some underutilized. The district hired a consultant to review all current boundaries with an eye to how they affect overcrowding, diversity, and students’ proximity to their schools. The consultants will not recommend any boundary changes and the county will not make any boundary changes during this initial process.

Parents on DCUM and Facebook groups have spread the rumor that children will be bussed far from home in order to balance out school demographics, and that their home values will suffer as a result. MCPS has specifically responded that they are only looking at schools and clusters adjacent to one another and have no intention of bussing students across the county.