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Anonymous wrote:RM is very over crowded and City of Rockville is debating to put 3300 students school built for 2200 students.

RM shouldn't be compared with other two schools due to being so over crowded.

Please don’t spread falsehoods. Technically, the city IS discussing allowing up to 3300 students in the school built for 2200; however, no reasonable projections have the school reaching 3300 in 10 years—even with additional development, which takes time to build and populate. Would it eventually get there, sure, it probably would, but the city isn’t likely to pass the vote in a couple days to permit that. It’s more likely that if anything passes, it would be the targeted raising of the limits to permit construction in the Walter Johnson cluster. Less likely is the waiver to allow building downtown that will affect RM.

If you have a child that will be at RM between now and 10 years from now, expect school utilization at 120% now to 135% by the end of the 10 years. Building Crown High School will also result in major boundary changes. We can’t accurately predict which neighborhoods will go to which schools yet.

120-135%, wow it seems RM should be avoided by any new house buyers who values education.

Go for Wootton if you are not wealthy. If you have money then go for Churchill. My kid is in middle school in RM cluster and I am not really thrilled with over crowding in RM and even less thrilled with attitude of elected leaders from Rockville to make the over crowding worse.

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Anonymous wrote:RM doesn't belong in this comparison if you are comparing schools. It's over crowded with poor test scores despite having magnets.

Yes because RM has poor kids and the other schools don't. Ripe for boundary redrawing. What will W parents do when more poor kids come into their schools and bring down the test scores? I guess you will move to private because the poor kids might infect your kid and bring down your kid's test scores.

I would prefer lower test scores as it makes it less stressful and of course the smart but not perfect kids will be ranked higher. That said, I don’t want all the fights, sex in hallways, anti-semitism, and asylum seekers with a 3rd grade education in my school to get those higher ranks.

Churchill boundaries won’t be changed. They already have every low income area in their area and there really isn’t any others around them.

Um.. ok <5% FARMs is nothing compared to neighboring RM with about 20% FARMs. But I guess to people like you, the few FARMs students you do have is enough, and you don't want more.

Take Twinbrook, which was once a nice area now turned into El Salvador, out of the equation and RM farms would be just the same as Churchill. You can’t bus past multiple schools and break up massive boundary lines. Churchill won’t change

Anonymous wrote:Wait when was Twin brook considered a really nice area? Its always been working class and lower income though that seems to be changing rapidly now with houses getting more expensive. I think its actually one of the few good investment opportunities in MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:RM doesn't belong in this comparison if you are comparing schools. It's over crowded with poor test scores despite having magnets.

Yes because RM has poor kids and the other schools don't. Ripe for boundary redrawing. What will W parents do when more poor kids come into their schools and bring down the test scores? I guess you will move to private because the poor kids might infect your kid and bring down your kid's test scores.

I would prefer lower test scores as it makes it less stressful and of course the smart but not perfect kids will be ranked higher. That said, I don’t want all the fights, sex in hallways, anti-semitism, and asylum seekers with a 3rd grade education in my school to get those higher ranks.

Churchill boundaries won’t be changed. They already have every low income area in their area and there really isn’t any others around them.

Um.. ok <5% FARMs is nothing compared to neighboring RM with about 20% FARMs. But I guess to people like you, the few FARMs students you do have is enough, and you don't want more.

Take Twinbrook, which was once a nice area now turned into El Salvador, out of the equation and RM farms would be just the same as Churchill. You can’t bus past multiple schools and break up massive boundary lines. Churchill won’t change

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Anonymous wrote:The PP was referencing that there are no more nearby areas with high FARMS students to add into Churchill. You have got to accept that if your goal is to add lots of poor students to Churchill then they will need to be on a very long bus ride past other schools. Wootton is the same geographic situation.

Its not going to happen. No kid wants to be bussed somewhere because they were picked for being poor. No kid wants to be bussed somewhere because they were picked for being rich either. It expensive and unpopular with everyone who is effected.

There are no high schools on Montrose/Randolph Road or near Congressional Lane. Those areas are only a 10 minute drive from Churchill and would provide the diversity needed if the apartment complexes were included in the boundary change.

Also, currently some students attending Churchill are on a bus for 45 minutes and would have a shorter commute if redistricted to Poolesville or Wootton. There actually is a community split in half between Wootton and Churchill in which the Churchill students ride a bus past Wootton. Some Cabin John students who will eventually go to Wootton ride past Hoover Middle School and Churchill High School everyday. The Board of Education can redraw boundaries anyway they want. They ultimately have the final say and may feel pressure from civil rights groups to balance out schools anyway possible. Redrawing school boundaries is a controversial move but probably needed if diversity is a school priority.

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What is interesting about RM is that the area surrounding it is changing. Unlike areas in the east where the low poverty is so pervasive and zoned in its just not going anywhere, the area near RM is changing over. Cheap SFH rental houses are being bought by owner occupants or developers and remodeled. Developers are trying to build nicer condos and THs. Rockville seems eager to clean up the Twin brook area so within 10 years this area may not be low income anymore. I seriously doubt that any would chop up Twin brook into three sections to sprinkle the poor kids across Churchill. Wootton and RM. Even if they did so this, those areas that were rezoned into Churchill or Wootton would automatically jump in value and turn over to UMC families.

I'd say that any of the 3 are a safe bet for the next 10 years.

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Anonymous wrote:RM doesn't belong in this comparison if you are comparing schools. It's over crowded with poor test scores despite having magnets.

Yes because RM has poor kids and the other schools don't. Ripe for boundary redrawing. What will W parents do when more poor kids come into their schools and bring down the test scores? I guess you will move to private because the poor kids might infect your kid and bring down your kid's test scores.

I would prefer lower test scores as it makes it less stressful and of course the smart but not perfect kids will be ranked higher. That said, I don’t want all the fights, sex in hallways, anti-semitism, and asylum seekers with a 3rd grade education in my school to get those higher ranks.

Churchill boundaries won’t be changed. They already have every low income area in their area and there really isn’t any others around them.

Um.. ok <5% FARMs is nothing compared to neighboring RM with about 20% FARMs. But I guess to people like you, the few FARMs students you do have is enough, and you don't want more.