Anonymous
10/04/2025 10:51
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
I'm confused why you think that. I don't see an issue with these revised regions.
You must not have skin in the game if you don’t see an issue with these revised regions.
Exactly. I'm another QO parent and this does not look good at all for us. I prefer the old model and my kid is a 2031 kid. Crossing my fingers that something happens and this sh**sh** gets postponed.
If you're happy at QO you can just stay there and not deal with the regional programs.
Problem is that QO loses the chance to get access to Poolsville which they have previously had. They will be bussing in students from other high FARMS schools and some of the best existing resources will be extracted to support the special programs. I can’t think of any benefits for QO under this new regional model scenario
+1
Anonymous
10/04/2025 10:31
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
I'm confused why you think that. I don't see an issue with these revised regions.
You must not have skin in the game if you don’t see an issue with these revised regions.
Exactly. I'm another QO parent and this does not look good at all for us. I prefer the old model and my kid is a 2031 kid. Crossing my fingers that something happens and this sh**sh** gets postponed.
If you're happy at QO you can just stay there and not deal with the regional programs.
Problem is that QO loses the chance to get access to Poolsville which they have previously had. They will be bussing in students from other high FARMS schools and some of the best existing resources will be extracted to support the special programs. I can’t think of any benefits for QO under this new regional model scenario
Anonymous
10/04/2025 10:22
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
I'm confused why you think that. I don't see an issue with these revised regions.
You must not have skin in the game if you don’t see an issue with these revised regions.
Exactly. I'm another QO parent and this does not look good at all for us. I prefer the old model and my kid is a 2031 kid. Crossing my fingers that something happens and this sh**sh** gets postponed.
If you're happy at QO you can just stay there and not deal with the regional programs.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 10:21
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
I'm confused why you think that. I don't see an issue with these revised regions.
You must not have skin in the game if you don’t see an issue with these revised regions.
Exactly. I'm another QO parent and this does not look good at all for us. I prefer the old model and my kid is a 2031 kid. Crossing my fingers that something happens and this sh**sh** gets postponed.
Write to BOE, write to your council member just the other thread did. The arbitrary and last-minute change is definitely a big red flag signing how rush and arbitrary they are, and this model is not going to bring benefit but just trouble to QO.
Anonymous
10/04/2025 10:17
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
I'm confused why you think that. I don't see an issue with these revised regions.
You must not have skin in the game if you don’t see an issue with these revised regions.
Exactly. I'm another QO parent and this does not look good at all for us. I prefer the old model and my kid is a 2031 kid. Crossing my fingers that something happens and this sh**sh** gets postponed.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 17:08
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It'll get interesting. I can see Wootton cluster get carved up and distributed to both QO and Crown, which means they won't have access to Poolesville anymore like they do now.
Poolesville has multiple established magnets. Uncertain about the schools in the other region.
Agreed. The ESs under Wootton which will be carved out and sent to Crown will be most negatively impacted in terms of real estate value.
That’s why they shouldn’t touch Wootton much. There is no reason to hurt some families so disproportionately, especially the part carving out is really the relatively poor ones in Wootton district.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 16:33
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:It'll get interesting. I can see Wootton cluster get carved up and distributed to both QO and Crown, which means they won't have access to Poolesville anymore like they do now.
Poolesville has multiple established magnets. Uncertain about the schools in the other region.
Agreed. The ESs under Wootton which will be carved out and sent to Crown will be most negatively impacted in terms of real estate value.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 16:12
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
It'll get interesting. I can see Wootton cluster get carved up and distributed to both QO and Crown, which means they won't have access to Poolesville anymore like they do now.
Poolesville has multiple established magnets. Uncertain about the schools in the other region.
Poolesville has multiple established magnets. Uncertain about the schools in the other region.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 15:52
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
I'm confused why you think that. I don't see an issue with these revised regions.
You must not have skin in the game if you don’t see an issue with these revised regions.
I don't because my kids are graduating in the next 2 yrs although I live in region 6. I seriously dont know the issue though.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 15:12
Subject: Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:The boundary study, which affects QO’s FARMs percentage, has not been decided. What FARMs percentage is MCPS using?
And the lack of contiguity post-swap is concerning. The other five regions have a contiguous appearance that makes sense.
This latest action is just another piece of evidence about how haphazard this proposal is. I don’t see how we can be okay with casually destroying some great, well-established programs like Einstein and Blair, trusting that a clearly sloppy administration will enact so many new programs all at once.
Since the boundaries are still undecided, we can't know yet whether they would be contiguous.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 15:08
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
I'm confused why you think that. I don't see an issue with these revised regions.
You must not have skin in the game if you don’t see an issue with these revised regions.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 15:06
Subject: Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
The boundary study, which affects QO’s FARMs percentage, has not been decided. What FARMs percentage is MCPS using?
And the lack of contiguity post-swap is concerning. The other five regions have a contiguous appearance that makes sense.
This latest action is just another piece of evidence about how haphazard this proposal is. I don’t see how we can be okay with casually destroying some great, well-established programs like Einstein and Blair, trusting that a clearly sloppy administration will enact so many new programs all at once.
And the lack of contiguity post-swap is concerning. The other five regions have a contiguous appearance that makes sense.
This latest action is just another piece of evidence about how haphazard this proposal is. I don’t see how we can be okay with casually destroying some great, well-established programs like Einstein and Blair, trusting that a clearly sloppy administration will enact so many new programs all at once.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 14:48
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
Anonymous wrote:The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
I'm confused why you think that. I don't see an issue with these revised regions.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 14:45
Subject: Re:Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
The original proposal was substantially better for QO. There’s no reason for the QO community, for whom Poolesville has been a reasonable commute, to support these changes.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 13:06
Subject: Damascus, QO swap proposed regions
This regional plan is arbitrary and not ethical.