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Anonymous wrote:SCES needs to be rezoned end of story and it will. The boundaries make zero aense and are inequitable.

What’s inequitable about it? Don’t know the boundaries.

It is one of the wealthiest schools in the immediate area. It directly borders a title 1 school (ESS) as well as two focus schools (Woodlin and highland view). French immersion definitely keeps farms down at SCES, but the disparity is greater than that. The border is also wonky in shape and not intuitive on its own. Tbh I don’t actually think there needs to be an ES in the current spot — kids who walk to SCES could mostly walk to ESS or HV.

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Anonymous wrote:SCES needs to be rezoned end of story and it will. The boundaries make zero aense and are inequitable.

I am against the proposals but I do agree with this. It’s a community so it’s sad, but the boundaries should change regardless.

SCES boundaries are a completely different conversation than the proposal to turn the school into a holding school. An elementary boundary study is coming, and likely many boundaries will change, including Sligo Creek's, which no one is arguing with.

What's at stake here is taking the only two schools in the urban core of Silver Spring and turning them into holding schools. That would mean every kid who walks to those schools now would take a bus, and every kid who comes to the site once it's a holding school would also arrive by bus. You are talking about adding 40+ busses per day to an already dense and congested area -- an area that the council and state have invested billions in with the new Purple Line to turn it into a walkable urban community. This is a short-sighted, urban planning nightmare.

Anonymous wrote:SCES needs to be rezoned end of story and it will. The boundaries make zero aense and are inequitable.

What’s inequitable about it? Don’t know the boundaries.

Anonymous wrote:SCES needs to be rezoned end of story and it will. The boundaries make zero aense and are inequitable.

I am against the proposals but I do agree with this. It’s a community so it’s sad, but the boundaries should change regardless.

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Anonymous wrote:Today is the last day to send feedback in about this to BOETestimony@mcpsmd.org. 8/10 sites are out of current boundaries so Sligo creek kids probably wouldn’t be the ones getting a new school. They’d be reassigned ones closer to them.

The deadline to send feedback is TODAY (Monday November 10th) at noon. PLEASE send feedback even if you only have brief comments. The more the better.

Also, please consider signing this petition if you would rather the BOE invest in downtown Silver Spring neighborhoods, rather than abandon them.

https://forms.gle/YmrbG8UUAyX65RWJ7

Ack! Did I really miss the deadline to submit feedback on this?

You can still email the board, but I don’t think they’ll publish any more testimony. Doesn’t hurt to email

Any updates from the meeting yesterday?

Anonymous wrote:SCES needs to be rezoned end of story and it will. The boundaries make zero aense and are inequitable.

I mean it's going to be closed and rebuilt somewhere completely different, so yeah. It wil be SCES in name only but unlikely most of the current neighborhoods will be zoned for it.

SCES needs to be rezoned end of story and it will. The boundaries make zero aense and are inequitable.

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Anonymous wrote:Today is the last day to send feedback in about this to BOETestimony@mcpsmd.org. 8/10 sites are out of current boundaries so Sligo creek kids probably wouldn’t be the ones getting a new school. They’d be reassigned ones closer to them.

The deadline to send feedback is TODAY (Monday November 10th) at noon. PLEASE send feedback even if you only have brief comments. The more the better.

Also, please consider signing this petition if you would rather the BOE invest in downtown Silver Spring neighborhoods, rather than abandon them.

https://forms.gle/YmrbG8UUAyX65RWJ7

Ack! Did I really miss the deadline to submit feedback on this?

Anonymous wrote:Today is the last day to send feedback in about this to BOETestimony@mcpsmd.org. 8/10 sites are out of current boundaries so Sligo creek kids probably wouldn’t be the ones getting a new school. They’d be reassigned ones closer to them.

The deadline to send feedback is TODAY (Monday November 10th) at noon. PLEASE send feedback even if you only have brief comments. The more the better.

Also, please consider signing this petition if you would rather the BOE invest in downtown Silver Spring neighborhoods, rather than abandon them.

https://forms.gle/YmrbG8UUAyX65RWJ7

Today is the last day to send feedback in about this to BOETestimony@mcpsmd.org. 8/10 sites are out of current boundaries so Sligo creek kids probably wouldn’t be the ones getting a new school. They’d be reassigned ones closer to them.

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Although FWIW I think it's the other way around with MS/HS... the middle school and high school assignments will be locked in after the current boundary study, which will seriously constrain how the elementary school boundaries get redrawn if they want to avoid split articulation, but it does mean that whatever gets decided on MS/HS boundaries now will stay the same. It's dumb that they're not being done simultaneously though, which makes far more sense.

Oh interesting. I was under the impression that they were currently determining which ES matriculate into each HS/MS, but if they move your kid to a new ES during the later boundary study then you could theoretically end up in an entirely different set of schools. But I don’t really know much about this since there has been so little info shared.

DP. No, the new ES study would only change ES assignments.

If you get moved from SCES to ESS, how does that not change MS and HS assignments?

Or are we expecting this to result in more split articulations than before?

Yes, doing the elementary boundary study separately from the MS/HS boundary study will likely lead to more split articulation. Just like in this current boundary study no one's elementary school assignment changes, in the next one no one's middle or high school assignment will change. So if your house gets reassigned to ESS you will still keep whatever MS and HS assignment you get from this round.

That's more likely to mean that most or all of the southernmost SCES kids will get reassigned to Highland View rather than ESS (unless ESS and SCES have the same articulation under the new maps), but it could also mean split articulation from ESS.

How are we sure of this? I live on this border and from an equity perspective, it makes sense to assign SCES kids to ESS, but potential split articulation is not good.

It's just a guess on my part but Highland View seems to make most sense if you're trying to decrease split articulation. But yeah, probably sending kids to ESS would be better for diversity and equity. If they delayed finalizing the MS/HS boundary study and did ES at the same time then you could try to come up with the best plan on all fronts... but that would upset WJ parents so I assume it's not on the table.

Plus many SCES kids are walkable to ESS, and it’s currently under capacity.

Ooooof what a mess

This is a good point. They really should just open Woodward with current WJ and hold everything else to do at the same time, with the intention of filling in the new school then.

That's right, only address WJ's overcrowding. No one else matters.

In the updated numbers none of the schools are overcrowded, when accounting for the lower population growth.

Anonymous wrote:They should open Woodside urban site as a school anyway and have it be an all walker school for close in dtss

That could be interesting.

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Although FWIW I think it's the other way around with MS/HS... the middle school and high school assignments will be locked in after the current boundary study, which will seriously constrain how the elementary school boundaries get redrawn if they want to avoid split articulation, but it does mean that whatever gets decided on MS/HS boundaries now will stay the same. It's dumb that they're not being done simultaneously though, which makes far more sense.

Oh interesting. I was under the impression that they were currently determining which ES matriculate into each HS/MS, but if they move your kid to a new ES during the later boundary study then you could theoretically end up in an entirely different set of schools. But I don’t really know much about this since there has been so little info shared.

DP. No, the new ES study would only change ES assignments.

If you get moved from SCES to ESS, how does that not change MS and HS assignments?

Or are we expecting this to result in more split articulations than before?

Yes, doing the elementary boundary study separately from the MS/HS boundary study will likely lead to more split articulation. Just like in this current boundary study no one's elementary school assignment changes, in the next one no one's middle or high school assignment will change. So if your house gets reassigned to ESS you will still keep whatever MS and HS assignment you get from this round.

That's more likely to mean that most or all of the southernmost SCES kids will get reassigned to Highland View rather than ESS (unless ESS and SCES have the same articulation under the new maps), but it could also mean split articulation from ESS.

How are we sure of this? I live on this border and from an equity perspective, it makes sense to assign SCES kids to ESS, but potential split articulation is not good.

It's just a guess on my part but Highland View seems to make most sense if you're trying to decrease split articulation. But yeah, probably sending kids to ESS would be better for diversity and equity. If they delayed finalizing the MS/HS boundary study and did ES at the same time then you could try to come up with the best plan on all fronts... but that would upset WJ parents so I assume it's not on the table.

Plus many SCES kids are walkable to ESS, and it’s currently under capacity.

Ooooof what a mess

This is a good point. They really should just open Woodward with current WJ and hold everything else to do at the same time, with the intention of filling in the new school then.

That's right, only address WJ's overcrowding. No one else matters.

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Although FWIW I think it's the other way around with MS/HS... the middle school and high school assignments will be locked in after the current boundary study, which will seriously constrain how the elementary school boundaries get redrawn if they want to avoid split articulation, but it does mean that whatever gets decided on MS/HS boundaries now will stay the same. It's dumb that they're not being done simultaneously though, which makes far more sense.

Oh interesting. I was under the impression that they were currently determining which ES matriculate into each HS/MS, but if they move your kid to a new ES during the later boundary study then you could theoretically end up in an entirely different set of schools. But I don’t really know much about this since there has been so little info shared.

DP. No, the new ES study would only change ES assignments.

If you get moved from SCES to ESS, how does that not change MS and HS assignments?

Or are we expecting this to result in more split articulations than before?

Yes, doing the elementary boundary study separately from the MS/HS boundary study will likely lead to more split articulation. Just like in this current boundary study no one's elementary school assignment changes, in the next one no one's middle or high school assignment will change. So if your house gets reassigned to ESS you will still keep whatever MS and HS assignment you get from this round.

That's more likely to mean that most or all of the southernmost SCES kids will get reassigned to Highland View rather than ESS (unless ESS and SCES have the same articulation under the new maps), but it could also mean split articulation from ESS.

How are we sure of this? I live on this border and from an equity perspective, it makes sense to assign SCES kids to ESS, but potential split articulation is not good.

It's just a guess on my part but Highland View seems to make most sense if you're trying to decrease split articulation. But yeah, probably sending kids to ESS would be better for diversity and equity. If they delayed finalizing the MS/HS boundary study and did ES at the same time then you could try to come up with the best plan on all fronts... but that would upset WJ parents so I assume it's not on the table.

Plus many SCES kids are walkable to ESS, and it’s currently under capacity.

Ooooof what a mess

This is a good point. They really should just open Woodward with current WJ and hold everything else to do at the same time, with the intention of filling in the new school then.