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Anonymous wrote:The tell that they are protecting BCC and Whitman above other priorities is that the new options do not even contemplate changes in their boundaries. It has already been decided and there are few if any avenues for the Superintendent or the BOE to reconsider.

Well, BOE f**cked with boundaries in completely nonsensical ways for the first round so it’s understandable that people freaked.

Right, some communities are protected from discomfort and others are not. We get the message.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.

That’s why option D is the best bet. In that option Northwood only is at 85% capacity, while WJ and Woodward are at 88 and 85. And even Kennedy is only at 100.3%.

Out of these terrible options it is the best bet but these options are all horrible. If you use the actual capacity of Wheaton HS per the CIP proposed by Taylor days ago, Option D leaves Wheaton 15% overcrowded.

I don’t agree they are all horrible for the DCC. They all solve overcrowding at Einstein, Blair, and Northwood.

If you look at the boundary study it keeps Whitman and BCC the same as they are now (below capacity), Walter Johnson and Woodward significantly below capacity, and 3 out of 6 DCC schools over capacity, all DCC schools with massive split articulation and numerous boundary changes.

BCC is at 98% capacity and includes the areas of Bethesda with a lot of new apartments. It would not make sense to make BCC go overcapacity right now, since it’s bound to do so soon enough without changing its boundaries.

Best case would be to marginally move some on the eastern part of the BCC boundaries to Whitman (a move I doubt they would mind) and then move some kids from Einstein to BCC. But due to the fact Whitman is way out there there’s going to be limited amounts you could do.

At any rate it makes sense that the schools with the most overcrowding have the most boundary changes, particularly if they weren’t trying to make distances excessive.

**eastern part of Whitman’s boundary, western part of BCC’s

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Anonymous wrote:The tell that they are protecting BCC and Whitman above other priorities is that the new options do not even contemplate changes in their boundaries. It has already been decided and there are few if any avenues for the Superintendent or the BOE to reconsider.

Well, BOE f**cked with boundaries in completely nonsensical ways for the first round so it’s understandable that people freaked.

Anonymous wrote:The tell that they are protecting BCC and Whitman above other priorities is that the new options do not even contemplate changes in their boundaries. It has already been decided and there are few if any avenues for the Superintendent or the BOE to reconsider.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.

That’s why option D is the best bet. In that option Northwood only is at 85% capacity, while WJ and Woodward are at 88 and 85. And even Kennedy is only at 100.3%.

Out of these terrible options it is the best bet but these options are all horrible. If you use the actual capacity of Wheaton HS per the CIP proposed by Taylor days ago, Option D leaves Wheaton 15% overcrowded.

I don’t agree they are all horrible for the DCC. They all solve overcrowding at Einstein, Blair, and Northwood.

If you look at the boundary study it keeps Whitman and BCC the same as they are now (below capacity), Walter Johnson and Woodward significantly below capacity, and 3 out of 6 DCC schools over capacity, all DCC schools with massive split articulation and numerous boundary changes.

BCC is at 98% capacity and includes the areas of Bethesda with a lot of new apartments. It would not make sense to make BCC go overcapacity right now, since it’s bound to do so soon enough without changing its boundaries.

Best case would be to marginally move some on the eastern part of the BCC boundaries to Whitman (a move I doubt they would mind) and then move some kids from Einstein to BCC. But due to the fact Whitman is way out there there’s going to be limited amounts you could do.

At any rate it makes sense that the schools with the most overcrowding have the most boundary changes, particularly if they weren’t trying to make distances excessive.

GMAFB, it is so obvious they are being very intentional about protecting W school community comfort over addressing the actual priorities they are supposed to consider.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.

That’s why option D is the best bet. In that option Northwood only is at 85% capacity, while WJ and Woodward are at 88 and 85. And even Kennedy is only at 100.3%.

Out of these terrible options it is the best bet but these options are all horrible. If you use the actual capacity of Wheaton HS per the CIP proposed by Taylor days ago, Option D leaves Wheaton 15% overcrowded.

I don’t agree they are all horrible for the DCC. They all solve overcrowding at Einstein, Blair, and Northwood.

If you look at the boundary study it keeps Whitman and BCC the same as they are now (below capacity), Walter Johnson and Woodward significantly below capacity, and 3 out of 6 DCC schools over capacity, all DCC schools with massive split articulation and numerous boundary changes.

BCC is at 98% capacity and includes the areas of Bethesda with a lot of new apartments. It would not make sense to make BCC go overcapacity right now, since it’s bound to do so soon enough without changing its boundaries.

Best case would be to marginally move some on the eastern part of the BCC boundaries to Whitman (a move I doubt they would mind) and then move some kids from Einstein to BCC. But due to the fact Whitman is way out there there’s going to be limited amounts you could do.

At any rate it makes sense that the schools with the most overcrowding have the most boundary changes, particularly if they weren’t trying to make distances excessive.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.

That’s why option D is the best bet. In that option Northwood only is at 85% capacity, while WJ and Woodward are at 88 and 85. And even Kennedy is only at 100.3%.

Out of these terrible options it is the best bet but these options are all horrible. If you use the actual capacity of Wheaton HS per the CIP proposed by Taylor days ago, Option D leaves Wheaton 15% overcrowded.

I don’t agree they are all horrible for the DCC. They all solve overcrowding at Einstein, Blair, and Northwood.

If you look at the boundary study it keeps Whitman and BCC the same as they are now (below capacity), Walter Johnson and Woodward significantly below capacity, and 3 out of 6 DCC schools over capacity, all DCC schools with massive split articulation and numerous boundary changes.

BCC is at 98% capacity and includes the areas of Bethesda with a lot of new apartments. It would not make sense to make BCC go overcapacity right now, since it’s bound to do so soon enough without changing its boundaries.

Best case would be to marginally move some on the eastern part of the BCC boundaries to Whitman (a move I doubt they would mind) and then move some kids from Einstein to BCC. But due to the fact Whitman is way out there there’s going to be limited amounts you could do.

At any rate it makes sense that the schools with the most overcrowding have the most boundary changes, particularly if they weren’t trying to make distances excessive.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.

That’s why option D is the best bet. In that option Northwood only is at 85% capacity, while WJ and Woodward are at 88 and 85. And even Kennedy is only at 100.3%.

Out of these terrible options it is the best bet but these options are all horrible. If you use the actual capacity of Wheaton HS per the CIP proposed by Taylor days ago, Option D leaves Wheaton 15% overcrowded.

I don’t agree they are all horrible for the DCC. They all solve overcrowding at Einstein, Blair, and Northwood.

If you look at the boundary study it keeps Whitman and BCC the same as they are now (below capacity), Walter Johnson and Woodward significantly below capacity, and 3 out of 6 DCC schools over capacity, all DCC schools with massive split articulation and numerous boundary changes.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

It's not clear what they'll do. They obviously didn't give Flo Analytics the numbers to reflect the higher capacities at Eastern and Sligo, because the capital budget hasn't been approved yet. But they could opt to leave those MS assignments as is for now, given the expected later boundary study for SSIMS specifically.

Yes, they should have and could have, since obviously MCPS has known the SSIMS closure was in the works and could have given Flo the heads' up to leave its boundaries alone in all or at least one option. But instead, its boundaries change wildly in all 4 options, adding Woodlin kids and a portion of Flora Singer kids and in one scenario some ESS kids (and moving Forest Knolls and Pine Crest kids out of SSIMS.). It's just stupid, too, since the Forest Knolls and MK/Pine Crest kids stay zoned to Northwood under all the options and get moved to Sligo and Eastern MS respectively, when there's no good reason not to leave them at SSIMS for its last few years and then let them get reassigned later. Instead

So basically they'll make Woodlin, Flora Singer, MK/PC, and Forest Knolls kids (and maybe some ESS kids) all move middle schools for a few years-- including creating split MS articulation for all those schools under most options except Woodlin-- and then everyone ends up at Sligo and Eastern in the end like they would have anyway.

But everyone here says that the superintendent will only pick from one of the 4 crappy options currently on the table. So I guess that means this dumb and disruptive temporary musical chairs still needs to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
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Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.

That’s why option D is the best bet. In that option Northwood only is at 85% capacity, while WJ and Woodward are at 88 and 85. And even Kennedy is only at 100.3%.

Out of these terrible options it is the best bet but these options are all horrible. If you use the actual capacity of Wheaton HS per the CIP proposed by Taylor days ago, Option D leaves Wheaton 15% overcrowded.

I don’t agree they are all horrible for the DCC. They all solve overcrowding at Einstein, Blair, and Northwood.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.

That’s why option D is the best bet. In that option Northwood only is at 85% capacity, while WJ and Woodward are at 88 and 85. And even Kennedy is only at 100.3%.

Out of these terrible options it is the best bet but these options are all horrible. If you use the actual capacity of Wheaton HS per the CIP proposed by Taylor days ago, Option D leaves Wheaton 15% overcrowded.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.

That’s why option D is the best bet. In that option Northwood only is at 85% capacity, while WJ and Woodward are at 88 and 85. And even Kennedy is only at 100.3%.

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Anonymous wrote:Is SSIMS no longer an option? Because it will close in '31?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1296678.page

Nope. They're going to redistrict lots of new neighborhoods to a dying SSIMS for 4 years and then redistrict them again to Sligo and Einstein right after. Because God forbid Whitman/BCC/WJ families don't get exactly what they want, but they know they can get away with pushing around DCC families.

Can you please stop directing your anger at other families in clusters that have nothing to do with you? The DCC is going away. Directing your bitterness at schools that did not cause you harm is not productive. You can advocate for yourself without jealousy/venom and you will be more effective and seem less petty.

DP

No, the disparity in how the DCC versus west county schools are being treated in both the boundary study and the program analysis is disgraceful.

You won't shut us up.

Funny how you were super quiet when you had magnet set asides, school choice, access to multiple special programs west county schools could not access, title 1 class sizes and funding and so on and so forth.

My child is in kindergarten so we've never benefited from any of these things.

Stop demanding we all pay for empty space in your kid's school you pathetic little grifter.

DP but you can’t complain about the loss of something and then say you don’t care (don’t benefit) from it.

I'm shocked, shocked you don't want me to complain about the obvious grift

There is no grift.

Leaving some schools 20% empty for the comfort of rich people while other schools are overcrowded is theft from taxpayers.