MCPS has scheduled 4 meetings to discuss RFP for consultant. April 23 at WJ.

Anonymous wrote:More civic involvement is always good, but I'm tickled by the idea that a boundary study involving 3 high schools and 6,000 high school students as "an obscure upcounty issue" in the first place. The Unity boundary study was an obscure upcounty issue. This isn't.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/unityarea.aspx

No argument.

I am trying to raise awareness and promote civic involvement.

More civic involvement is always good, but I'm tickled by the idea that a boundary study involving 3 high schools and 6,000 high school students as "an obscure upcounty issue" in the first place. The Unity boundary study was an obscure upcounty issue. This isn't.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/unityarea.aspx

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there's no room for another ES at Einstein, and even if there were, all the existing Einstein ESs are further from WJ and Woodward than K-P is.

There is room to trade elementary schools.

Distance? What distance? Option 4 is bussing students from the Potomac River to East of the 270. It is like taking the westmost areas od Whitman, and bussing them to Einstein. The proposed district is not continuous; it is an island. So it is like taking say Carderock Elementary and bussing it to Einstein for demographic equity.

It would be kind of like rezoning Carderock ES for Einstein HS if Carderock ES were already zoned for Walter Johnson HS.

Also, Seneca Valley HS is WEST of 270.

You are right, SVHS is barely West of 270, but 270 also swings much further away from the Potomac River up there. And your analogy re: Carderock is is much better, too. I am sure it gives zero consolation to NBMS parents.

Now, would people in Bethesda/Potomac please imagine the possible scenarios and start mobilizing, along with people in Rockville who would be screwed since they are all on some boundary of inequity? We need to have people attend BOE meetings, run and support candidates, and generally be involved. The only people signing up to speak at the BOE meetings are the Social Equity Fraction. We need to start putting on pressure and have representation.

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there's no room for another ES at Einstein, and even if there were, all the existing Einstein ESs are further from WJ and Woodward than K-P is.

There is room to trade elementary schools.

Distance? What distance? Option 4 is bussing students from the Potomac River to East of the 270. It is like taking the westmost areas od Whitman, and bussing them to Einstein. The proposed district is not continuous; it is an island. So it is like taking say Carderock Elementary and bussing it to Einstein for demographic equity.

It would be kind of like rezoning Carderock ES for Einstein HS if Carderock ES were already zoned for Walter Johnson HS.

Also, Seneca Valley HS is WEST of 270.

Write to the BOE, attend meetings, fill out the survey, oppose option #4. This is not an obscure upcounty issue. This is a preview what is on the table in 2-3 years for downcounty.

there's no room for another ES at Einstein, and even if there were, all the existing Einstein ESs are further from WJ and Woodward than K-P is.

There is room to trade elementary schools.

Distance? What distance? Option 4 is bussing students from the Potomac River to East of the 270. It is like taking the westmost areas od Whitman, and bussing them to Einstein. The proposed district is not continuous; it is an island. So it is like taking say Carderock Elementary and bussing it to Einstein for demographic equity.

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Anonymous wrote:Ummmm for demographics. Cut off the most FARM-y areas of Einstein to make free space in the school, send some to WJ and some to Woodward, insert I dunno Kensington Parkwood into Einstein. Demographics at Einstein solved.

THAT is the world Option 4 opens.

And that would be bad because...?

Exhibit 1 - option 4 is supported by people who consider moving Kensington Parkwood to Einstein, and 1/2 Einstein to WJ, a completely sane option.

KP/WJ parents, are you paying attention? If so, protest option 4.

Why wouldn't it be?

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/KensingtonParkwoodES.pdf

It's about 2.3 miles from Kensington Parkwood ES to Einstein, and 2.4 miles from Kensington Parkwood ES to Walter Johnson HS.

Aside from the Kensington Parkwood ES island on Old Georgetown Rd and Tuckerman (which will be in walking distance of Woodward), most of the Kensington Parkwood ES service area is closer to Einstein than to Walter Johnson. I thought that people want their closest school.

But again, there's no room for another ES at Einstein, and even if there were, all the existing Einstein ESs are further from WJ and Woodward than K-P is.

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Anonymous wrote:Ummmm for demographics. Cut off the most FARM-y areas of Einstein to make free space in the school, send some to WJ and some to Woodward, insert I dunno Kensington Parkwood into Einstein. Demographics at Einstein solved.

THAT is the world Option 4 opens.

And that would be bad because...?

Exhibit 1 - option 4 is supported by people who consider moving Kensington Parkwood to Einstein, and 1/2 Einstein to WJ, a completely sane option.

KP/WJ parents, are you paying attention? If so, protest option 4.

Why wouldn't it be?

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/KensingtonParkwoodES.pdf

It's about 2.3 miles from Kensington Parkwood ES to Einstein, and 2.4 miles from Kensington Parkwood ES to Walter Johnson HS.

Aside from the Kensington Parkwood ES island on Old Georgetown Rd and Tuckerman (which will be in walking distance of Woodward), most of the Kensington Parkwood ES service area is closer to Einstein than to Walter Johnson. I thought that people want their closest school.

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Anonymous wrote:Ummmm for demographics. Cut off the most FARM-y areas of Einstein to make free space in the school, send some to WJ and some to Woodward, insert I dunno Kensington Parkwood into Einstein. Demographics at Einstein solved.

THAT is the world Option 4 opens.

And that would be bad because...?

Exhibit 1 - option 4 is supported by people who consider moving Kensington Parkwood to Einstein, and 1/2 Einstein to WJ, a completely sane option.

KP/WJ parents, are you paying attention? If so, protest option 4.

Autocorrect!

*consultant ?

Well folks, this is why they hired a co sultans as we aren’t going to solve these problems here on DCUM.

Anonymous wrote:Ummmm for demographics. Cut off the most FARM-y areas of Einstein to make free space in the school, send some to WJ and some to Woodward, insert I dunno Kensington Parkwood into Einstein. Demographics at Einstein solved.

THAT is the world Option 4 opens.

And that would be bad because...?

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By the time you are willing to bus people 45 min without traffic. just expand the scope of the study like they did with NW this year, and then transport part of NBMS ro the newly finished Kennedy expansion.

This can get extreme in no time.

Oppose Option 4 in NW/SV/CHS rezoning. Fill out the survey. Wrute letters. Make your voice heard. You are a stakeholder. This can and will affect you in 2-3 years.

They expanded the scope of the study from Northwest, Seneca Valley, and Clarksburg High Schools, plus Seneca Valley's middle schools, to Northwest, Seneca Valley, and Clarksburg High Schools, plus Northwest, Seneca Valley, and Clarksburg High School's middle schools. A very reasonable and non-radical step.